Robert D. Goldstein

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Robert D. Goldstein Professor of Law and Special Assistant to the Vice Chancellor for Academic Personnel B.A. Harvard, 1969 M.Ed. Harvard Clinical Psychology & Public Practice Program, 1976 J.D. Harvard, 1977 UCLA Law faculty since 1983 goldstei@law.ucla.edu

Robert Goldstein currently teaches Constitutional Law I and II and Child Abuse and Neglect as part of a campus-wide interdisciplinary program he directs on abuse and neglect. He served as Associate Dean from 1998 through 2002.

Before law school, Professor Goldstein completed all requirements except his dissertation for a Ph.D. in clinical psychology, including a clinical internship through the Harvard Medical School. After law school, he clerked for Chief Judge Raymond Pettine of the Federal District Court of Rhode Island from 1977 through 1978. He practiced law with the firm of Foley, Hoag & Eliot for two years in its home office in Boston, Massachusetts, and for three years in its Washington, D.C. branch office.

Professor Goldstein has published Mother-Love and Abortion (1988) and Child Abuse and Neglect: Cases and Materials (1999), and has written in the area of civil rights and free speech.