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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.

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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).
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