Roy Goode

Sir Royston Miles Goode (6 April 1933 – 24 June 2026) was an English academic commercial lawyer who was an Emeritus Professor of Law at Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of St John's College. He founded the Centre for Commercial Law Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. He was awarded the OBE in 1972 followed by the CBE in 1994 before being knighted for services to academic law in 2000.

Early life and education Goode was educated at Highgate School in North London, and obtained his law degree by external study through the University of London External Programme in 1954. He completed the LLD at London in 1976 and the DCL at the University of Oxford in 2005. He died from heart failure on 24 June 2026, at the age of 93.

Publications Introduction by Sir Roy Goode: Routledge Handbook on Transnational Commercial Law (2025). .

Consumer Credit Law and Practice (General Editor) Consumer Credit Reports (General Editor)

Payment Obligations in Commercial and Financial Transactions My Engagement with European and International Commercial Law: An Errant Scholar's Reflections. Zeitschrift für europäisches Privatrecht, 28, 833 - 855 (2020).