School of Law: US Fulbright Senior Specialist

Event Details

Date:

Thursday, 30 July 2015

Time:

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Room:

Sir Samuel Griffith Room, 1-W341, Forgan Smith Building

UQ Location:

Forgan Smith Building (St Lucia)

URL:

http://www.law.uq.edu.au/fulbright-lg

Event category(s):

Full Description:: Professor Goodmark - Frances King Carey School of Law - University of Maryland

Professor Goodmark 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 Goodmark¹s scholarship focuses on domestic violence; her book, A Troubled Marriage: Domestic Violence and the Legal System, was released in 2012 by New York University Press and named a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of 2012. Her work on
domestic violence has appeared in numerous journals and law reviews, including Violence Against Women, the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, and the Yale Journal on Law and Feminism. 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.