Andrew Raider Wood began his independent arts, media and entertainment law practice in 2009, branding it as Wood Media Law in 2014. Prior to that he’d worked at a boutique entertainment law firm in Tribeca and held a variety of positions in entertainment and communications, from standards enforcement at the Entertainment Software Rating Board to a research fellowship at London’s Stanhope Centre for Communications Policy Research.

Before becoming an attorney Wood was Senior Editor at Marsilio Editori S.p.A.’s New York outpost in Union Square. Before that he was a Marketing Director at Penguin Random House. Prior to that he taught film, media, and cultural studies at the University of Pittsburgh, where he earned his PhD.

Wood studied law at Cardozo in the Intellectual Property & Information Law program, did advanced work in international media law & policy at Oxford, and also completed graduate work in Montréal at McGill. His undergraduate degree is from Penn in Philadelphia.