Leigh Goodmark
Associate Professor, Director, Family Law Clinic & Co-Director, Center on Applied Feminism
B.A., with highest honors, Yale University, 1991
J.D., with distinction, Stanford Law School, 1994
Expertise
- Family Law
- Domestic Violence
- Clinical Legal Education
Website: Center on Applied Feminism
Miscellaneous:"When is a Battered Woman Not a Battered Woman? When She Fights Back" Audio Conference
Contact Information
Telephone: (410) 837-5639
Room Number: CM 303
E-mail
Administrative Assistant: Shannon Dawkins, (410) 837-5752, (on campus x5752), WC 300, 5 West Chase
Courses Taught
Professor Goodmark joined the faculty in 2003. Prior to joining the faculty, Professor Goodmark directed the Children and Domestic Violence Project at the American Bar Association's Center on Children and the Law. Professor Goodmark previously taught in the Families and the Law Clinic at the Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law. She also practiced family law in the District of Columbia at Bread for the City and Zacchaeus Free Clinic, a holistic neighborhood service center, and was the recipient of a Skadden Arps Fellowship. After graduating from Stanford Law School, Professor Goodmark clerked for the Honorable Robert G. Doumar of the United States District Court, Eastern District of Virginia.
Professor Goodmark is the vice president of the Board of Directors of the Women's Law Center of Maryland. From 2003—2005, she served on the Maryland State Bar Association Family Law Section Council. Professor Goodmark is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Child Custody and the Editorial Review Panel of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges’ Juvenile and Family Court Journal. Professor Goodmark is a member of the Maryland, District of Columbia and California bars.
Selected Publications
SSRN Author Page for Leigh Goodmark
Miscellaneous
Public Interest at Stanford Law School: Alumni Update
Books/Forthcoming
A Troubled Marriage: Domestic Violence and the Legal System (forthcoming, NYU Press)
Articles and Essays
When Is A Battered Woman Not a Battered Woman? When She Fights Back, 20 Yale Journal of Law and Feminism 75 (2008).
Going Underground: The Ethics of Advising a Battered Woman Fleeing an Abusive Relationship, 75 UMKC Law Review 999 (2007).
The Punishment of Dixie Shanahan: Is There Justice for Battered Women Who Kill? 55 Kansas Law Review 269 (2007).
Telling Stories, Saving Lives: The Battered Mothers' Testimony Project, Women's Narratives, and Court Reform, 37 Arizona State University Law Journal 710 (2005).
Achieving Batterer Accountability in the Child Protection System, 93 Kentucky Law Journal 613 (2004-05).
Law is the Answer? Do We Know That For Sure?: Questioning the Efficacy of Legal Interventions for Battered Women, 23 St. Louis University Public Law Review 7 (2004).