Oliver Goodenough

Oliver Goodenough is a Research Professor at Vermont Law School and an Adjunct Professor at Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering. His academic career spans over 30 years, with affiliations including Stanford’s CodeX Center for Legal Informatics, the Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research, and Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society. He specializes in intersections of law, technology, neuroscience, and behavioral science.

Education: BA from Harvard University (1975), JD from University of Pennsylvania (1978). Formerly practiced law in New York before transitioning to academia. His research focuses on computational contracts, legal informatics, and neuroscientific applications to legal reasoning. Notable projects include co-directing the MacArthur Foundation Law and Neuroscience Project and co-founding Skopos Labs, applying machine learning to legal/financial services.

• Research Highlights: Pioneered computational contract frameworks, explored neural bases of moral reasoning, and analyzed blockchain technology in legal systems.
• Publications: Authored foundational texts like Law, Mind and Brain and Contract as Automaton, and edited Law and the Brain.
• Awards: Lee Loevinger Jurimetrics Award (2000), Gruter Institute Bene Merenti Award (2002), Vermont Law School Scholarship Prize (2010).

Teaches courses on blockchain law and entrepreneurship at Dartmouth. Served as co-director of the Law Lab at Harvard and held visiting roles at institutions like the University of Cambridge and Charite Medical School in Berlin.