Author: Leigh Goodmark

Leigh Goodmark is the Marjorie Cook Professor of Law and co-director of the Clinical Law Program at the University of Maryland Carey School of Law, where she directs the Gender Violence Clinic. Professor Goodmark’s scholarship focuses on intimate partner violence. She is the author of Decriminalizng Domestic Violence: A Balanced Policy Approach to Intimate Partner Violence (UC Press 2018) and A Troubled Marriage: Domestic Violence and the Legal System (New York University 2012) and the co-editor of Comparative Perspectives on Gender Violence: Lessons from Efforts Worldwide (Oxford 2015). Professor Goodmark is a graduate of Yale University and Stanford Law School.
  1. Criminal Law
  2. Human Rights Law

#SurvivedandPunished: How to Stop the Criminal Legal System from Harming Survivors of Gender-Based Violence

Women subjected to abuse have been promised that the criminal legal system will help them if they report those who abuse them to law enforcement and cooperate with prosecution.  But those same systems turn punitive quickly when women act to protect themselves from their abusers.  A number of high profile cases in the United States […]
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A Critical Assessment of the CrPC Amendment Ordinances 2025 with Dr Muhammad Mahbubur Rahman

DHLR: Section 54 of The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (CrPC 1898), as amended, tightens the scope of arrest without warrant by distinguishing between offences punishable with imprisonment for a term up to seven years and those punishable with more than seven years. In the former case, police may arrest without a warrant only if […]
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