Professor Goodman is a Visiting Professor at UCLA School of Law and will teach Constitutional Law I. Her research is primarily on equal protection topics, including implicit bias, algorithmic bias, affirmative action, preferences, diversity and racial privacy, as well as evidentiary issues. She currently teaches at Pepperdine Caruso School of law, where she is Straus Research Professor and Professor of Law. She teaches Evidence, Constitutional Law, Racial Justice, Trial Practice and Comparative Anti-Discrimination Law. She has taught in the London program, and has published two evidence books: California Evidence, in Aspen's Examples and Explanations series, as well as the Seventh edition of the textbook by Mendez, Goodman and Mainero.

Professor Goodman received her A.B. cum laude from Harvard College and her J.D. from Stanford Law School. While at Stanford Law School, Professor Goodman served 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.

Professor Goodman's publications have appeared or are forthcoming in Hastings Law Journal, Maryland Law Review, Tulane Law Review, Loyola Chicago Law Journal, as well as American's Journal of Law, Gender, and Social Policy, UCLA's LA Raza Law Journal, William and Mary Journal of Gender and Law, Maryland Journal of Race, Religion, Gender & Class, Washington and Lee's Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice, St. John's Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development, and the National Black Law Journal, among others.