Benjamin 
GOH

 
Assistant Professor

Benjamin Goh is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore. He works in the field of law and literature, particularly in the history of authorship and copyright. His doctoral thesis was on Kant and authorship in the German Enlightenment. His current research addresses the question of postcolonial authorship in and through J. M. Coetzee’s Foe (1986).

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Contact

b.goh@nus.edu.sg
6601 5881
FED 02-34

Education

PhD (London School of Economics and Political Science); LLM (University of Kent); MA, LLB (NUS)

Current Courses

Law and Literature

Law and the Humanities

Introduction to Legal Theory (B)

Introduction to Legal Theory (E)

Introduction to Legal Theory (F)

Introduction to Legal Theory (G)

Introduction to Legal Theory (H)

Benjamin Goh is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore. He works in the field of law and literature, particularly in the history of authorship and copyright. His doctoral thesis was on Kant and authorship in the German Enlightenment. His current research addresses the question of postcolonial authorship in and through J. M. Coetzee’s Foe (1986).

Journal Articles
Benjamin Goh, 'Planetary Gifts of Law and Literature' [2024] Law & Literature

Benjamin Goh, 'From Paratexts to Print Machinery' [2023] Law and Critique

Benjamin Goh, 'Postcolonial temporality of J. M. Coetzee’s Foe (1986)' [2023] Law and Humanities

Benjamin Goh, ‘Two Ways of Looking at a Printed Book’ (2022) 85(3) Modern Law Review 697–725

Benjamin Goh, ‘Book Review: Thomas Vesting, Legal Theory and the Media of Law (2018)’ (2021) 48(2) Journal of Law and Society 278–282

Benjamin Goh, ‘Biomedia: Life in Smithereens’ (2020) 2(1) Law, Technology and Humans 124–134


  • Law and Literature
  • Authorship and Copyright
  • Critical Legal Theory
  • Literary and Media Studies