Saltman Lecture: "Decriminalizing Domestic Violence" by Leigh Goodmark

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Leigh Goodmark is a Professor of Law at the University of Maryland Frances King Carey School of Law. Professor 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, a clinic providing direct representation in matters involving intimate partner abuse, sexual assault, trafficking, and other cases involving gender violence. Professor Goodmarks scholarship focuses on intimate partner violence. She is the author ofDecriminalizing Domestic Violence: A Balanced Policy Approach to Intimate Partner Violence(University of California Press 2018) andA Troubled Marriage: Domestic Violence and the Legal System(New York University 2012), which was named aCHOICEOutstanding Academic Title of 2012. She is the co-editor ofComparative Perspectives on Gender Violence: Lessons from Efforts Worldwide(Oxford 2015). Professor Goodmarks work on intimate partner violence has also appeared in numerous journals, law reviews, and publications, including Violence Against Women, the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, the Harvard Journal on Gender and the Law, the Yale Journal on Law and Feminism, and Fusion.net. From 2003 to 2014, Professor Goodmark was on the faculty at 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, Professor Goodmark 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, Professor Goodmark represented battered women and children in the District of Columbia in custody, visitation, child support, restraining order, and other civil matters. Professor Goodmark is a graduate of Yale University and Stanford Law School. For more details, please visit our event website