Leigh Goodmark (she/hers) is the Marjorie Cook Professor of Law at the University of Maryland Frances King Carey School of Law. Goodmark co-directs the Clinical Law Program; teaches Family Law, Gender and the Law, and Gender Violence and the Law; and directs the Gender Violence Clinic, which provides direct representation in matters involving intimate partner abuse, sexual assault, trafficking, and other forms of gender violence.

Professor Goodmark’s scholarship focuses on intimate partner violence. She is the author of “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” (New York University 2012), which was named a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of 2012. She is the co-editor of “Comparative Perspectives on Gender Violence: Lessons from Efforts Worldwide” (Oxford 2015). Goodmark’s work on intimate partner violence also has appeared in numerous journals, law reviews, and publications, including Violence Against Women, The New York Times, the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, the Harvard Journal on Gender and the Law, and the Yale Journal on Law and Feminism.

From 2003 to 2014, Goodmark was on the faculty of the University of Baltimore School of Law, where she served as director of clinical education and co-director of the Center on Applied Feminism. From 2000 to 2003, she was the director of the Children and Domestic Violence Project at the American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law. Before joining the Center on Children and the Law, Goodmark represented clients in Washington, D.C., in custody, visitation, child support, restraining order, and other civil matters.

Goodmark is a graduate of Yale University and Stanford Law School.