Ryan Goodman is the Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Reiss Center on Law and Security at New York University School of Law. He also holds positions as a Professor of Politics and Professor of Sociology at NYU. Goodman is the founding co-editor-in-chief of Just Security, an online forum for analysis of U.S. national security law and policy.

Goodman's career includes a period as Special Counsel to the General Counsel of the Department of Defense from 2015 to 2016.