Christine Goodman, JD ’91

Board Member

Professor Goodman joined the Pepperdine faculty in 2001. She teaches Evidence, Constitutional Law, Trial Practice and Comparative Anti-Discrimination Law. She has participated in the Sudreau Global Justice Program in Uganda and India, and taught in the London Program. Professor Goodman also has taught courses in Community Outreach/Youth Mentoring, Criminal Law, Constitutional Law, and Trial Preparation and Settlement. She serves as an advisor to the Black Law Students’ Association and the American Constitution Society Chapter, and formerly served as adviser to the Women’s Legal Association, and as a mock trial team coach. Professor Goodman writes on equal protection topics, including implicit bias, affirmative action, preferences, diversity and racial privacy, as well as evidentiary and criminal law issues, such as the lack of transparency in the death penalty decision-making process in California and medical privacy. The second edition of her book, California Evidence, in Aspen’s Examples and Explanations series, as well as the Seventh edition of the Mendez, Goodman and Mainero Evidence textbook are now available. Professor Goodman earned her BA from Harvard College, cum laude, and her JD from Stanford Law School.