Personal Profile
Robert Woods is the Director of the University of Arizona Law Program at Ocean University of China School of Law, in Qingdao, China. Robert teaches American Common Law 1, American Common Law 2, Intellectual Property, and Business Organizations. Robert previously taught entertainment business law and entertainment contract negotiations 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.
Robert is the author of Legal English for Business, published in 2018 by Law Press of China. Legal English for Business is the first book on which Law Press of China worked directly with a Western author to design and publish a book in English.
Before teaching, Robert 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. As a trial lawyer, Robert established several important legal precedents, resulting in five published opinions by the California Court of Appeal. In 2001, Robert was admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court.
Robert was also the producer of three films for television: the award-winning TV movie, The Miracle of the Cards, for Viacom (Winner, 2002 Movieguide Epiphany Prize for most inspirational television program), and the holiday specials The Elf Who Saved Christmas and The Elf and the Magic Key, for USA Network.
Besides his law and film background, Robert has an ongoing interest in the theatre. Robert has produced and directed theatre productions in Los Angeles, New York, and Nanning, China. Robert published There’s No
Business! Teaching the Business of Acting in the Methods Journal at Pace University.
Robert holds a JD in Law and an MFA in Theatre Directing, both from The University of Oklahoma.
