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Christine Chambers Goodman, J.D.
Professor of Law

Office: School of Law (SOL)
E-mail: christine.goodman@pepperdine.edu

  • J.D., Stanford Law School
  • B.A., Harvard College, cum laude

While at Stanford Law School, Professor Goodman participated on the board of directors for the Annual Women of Color and the Law Conference, worked as a teaching assistant in the political science department, and was an assistant editor for a new journal on gender issues. After law school she worked as an associate at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips (1991-93) and Gipson, Hoffman & Pancione (1993-1995), engaging in civil litigation in state and federal courts. In 1995, Professor Goodman began teaching at UCLA, and created and taught a course in lawyering skills for public interest attorneys.

Professor Goodman joined the Pepperdine faculty in 2001. She teaches Race and the Law, Criminal Law, Evidence, and Trial Practice. Professor Goodman also serves as an advisor to the Black Law Students' Association and the Women's Legal Association, as well as a mock trial team coach. Professor Goodman writes on equal protection topics, including affirmative action, preferences, diversity and racial privacy, as well as evidentary and criminal law issues. She is currently drafting a hornbook on California evidence. Professor Goodman is a member of the Los Angeles County Bar Association where she serves as Vice-Chair for the Diversity Profession Committee, the Women Lawyers' Association of Los Angeles, and the California State Bar Association. She is also Chair of the Education Committee for the Black Women Lawyers.

Selected Works:
  • A Modest Proposal in Deference to Diversity, NAT'L BLACK L.J. (forthcoming).
  • Protecting the Party Girl: A New Approach for Evaluating Intoxicated Consent, 2009 BYU L. REV. 57 (2009).
  • Retaining Diversity in the Classroom: Strategies for Maximizing the Benefits that Flow from a Diverse Student Body, 35 PEPP. L. REV. 663 (2008).
  • Examining "Voter Intent" Behind Proposition 209: Why Recruitment, Retention and Scholarship Privileges Should Be Permissible under Article 1, Section 31, 27 CHICANA/O-LATINA/O L. REV. 59 (2008).
  • Beneath the Veil: Corollaries on Diversity and Critical Mass Scholarships from Rawls' Original Position on Justice, 13 WASH. & LEE J. C.R. & SOC. JUST. 1 (2007).
  • The Color of Our Character: Confronting the Racial Character of Rule 404(b) Evidence, 25 LAW & INEQ. 1 (2007).
  • Christine Chambers Goodman, H. Mitchell Caldwell & Carol A. Chase, Death Penalty Survey Report, Submitted to the California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice and available on the Commission's website, http://www.ccfaj.org/rr-dp-expert.html.
  • Redacting Race In The Quest For Colorblind Justice: How Racial Privacy Legislation Subverts Antidiscrimination Laws, 88 MARQ. L. REV. 299 (2004).
  • Disregarding Intent: Using Statistical Evidence to Provide Greater Protection of the Laws, 66 ALB. L. REV. 633 (2003).