Robert Woods

Professor Woods has been teaching for the James E. Rogers College of Law since 2017, when he was appointed as the first Director of the University of Arizona Law Program at Ocean University of China, in Qingdao, China. Robert served as Director of that program from 2017 until 2022, and taught courses in contracts, torts, property, intellectual property, business organizations, and entertainment law. 

Robert previously taught entertainment business law at The Los Angeles Film School, entertainment law at the University of Oklahoma College of Law, entertainment law and trial procedures at the Oklahoma City University School of Law, and a course on American law at Guangxi University in Nanning, China. He is the author of Legal English for Business (Law Press China 2017) and Everyday Law for Actors (Applause Books 2021).

Before taking up his career as a teacher, he was a longtime entertainment lawyer in Beverly Hills, California. He was production counsel for numerous movies, and he represented several television production companies, talent agencies, producers, directors, writers, and musicians. Robert is also an award-winning film producer and has produced and directed more than a dozen theatre productions.

Robert holds a J.D. in Law and an MFA in Theatre Directing, both from The University of Oklahoma.

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