Professor Leigh S. Goodmark

Leigh Goodmark is Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development and the Marjorie Cook Professor of Law at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law.  Professor Goodmark directs the Gender, Prison, and Trauma Clinic and teaches Family Law and Law and Social Change.

Previously, Professor Goodmark was the Director of the Clinical Education and Family Law Clinic and Co-Director of the Center on Applied Feminism at the University of Baltimore School of Law, where she had been a faculty member since 2003.  Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Baltimore, she directed the Children and Domestic Violence Project at the American Bar Association's Center on Children and the Law. She 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 Hon. Robert G. Doumar of the United States District Court, Eastern District of Virginia.

Professor Goodmark is the author of Imperfect Victims: Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition Feminism  (University of California Press 2023), Decriminalizing Domestic Violence: A Balanced Policy Approach to Intimate Partner Violence  (University of California Press 2018), and A Troubled Marriage: Domestic Violence and the Legal System (NYU Press 2012).  Professor Goodmark’s scholarship has appeared in numerous newspapers, online sites, journals and law reviews, including the New York Times, the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, Violence Against Women, Florida State University Law Review, and the Yale Journal on Law and Feminism.  Professor Goodmark is a former president of the Clinical Legal Education Association and former president of the Board of Directors of the Women's Law Center of Maryland.  She is a member of the Editorial Board of Violence Against Women and a member of the advisory board for the Appalachian Justice Research Center. Professor Goodmark is a member of the Maryland, District of Columbia and California bars.