Biography
Oliver Goodenough is an international authority on legal innovation. He is currently a Research Professor of Law at Vermont Law and Graduate School, an Adjunct Professor at Dartmouth’s Thayer School of Engineering, and affiliated faculty at Stanford’s CodeX Center for Legal Informatics. At CodeX, he is a principal contributor to their insurance initiative. He is also a Research Fellow of the Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research.
He was formerly an IPA Researcher and Visiting Fellow at the Office of Financial Research of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, where he worked on financial contract automation. His OFR working paper Contract as Automaton: The Computational Representation of Financial Agreements, co-authored with Mark Flood, is a foundational study in the field. For several years he served as co-Director of Harvard University’s Law Lab project. He has also been a Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of Zoology at the University of Cambridge.
He is the author or editor of numerous volumes and articles, as well as reports and studies on computational law. In business, he is a co-founder, officer and director of Brooklyn Artificial Intelligence, Inc., applying AI infused automation to the investment management sector.
