Judith L. Goldstein

Judith L. Goldstein is the Janet M. Peck Professor of International Communication and the Kaye University Fellow in Undergraduate Education at Stanford. Her research focuses on international political economy, with a focus on trade politics.

Goldstein is a leading scholar of international trade relations in the United States. She has written extensively on American trade policy and on related international regime issues especially the World Trade Organization. Her work has been marked by careful empirical investigations that address major foreign policy issues. She has written and/or edited six book including Ideas, Interests and American Trade Policy and more recently The Evolution of the Trade Regime: Politics, Law and Economics of the GATT and the WTO. Her articles have appeared in numerous journals.

Her current research focuses on the political requisites for trade liberalization focusing both on tariff bargaining and public preferences. As well, she is engaged in the analysis of a large survey panel, which focuses on how economic hard times influences public opinion.

Goldstein has a BA from the University of California Berkeley, a Masters degree from Columbia University and a Ph.D. from UCLA.