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Professor at Maryland Carey Law, director of Gender, Prison, and Trauma Clinic, author of Imperfect Victims: Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition Feminism and Decriminalizing Domestic Violence (UC Press). She/her/mom. leighgoodmark.com

Flyer for program on Safeguarding Reproductive Justice in the Medical System, with photos of speakers Marissa Neill, Kima Joy Taylor, Shannon Hamber, Catrina Jones, Liz Latty, and Erin Miles Cloud. Date March 18, 2026, at 1 p.m. Register at bit.ly/SafeMDBirth
Picture of an email asking me to consider making my academic non-fiction book into a movie.
First page of Leigh Goodmark, Intimate Partner Firearm Violence and Abolition Feminism, in Social Research: An International Quarterly
Photographs of 2026 Legal Theory Workshop Speakers, including Brooklyn Hitchens, Sheldon Evans, Wojciech Sadurski, Alexis Hoag-Fordjour, Shirley Lin, Kathleen Engel, Susan McMahon, Daniel Harawa, Ned Foley, Erika George, and Aaron Mills.
Photo of Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep from Kramer v Kramer
Chocolate chip cookies
Picture of a group of people with the headline “Judge denies Oklahoma Survivors Act resentencing, extending ongoing trend”
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Photo of text reading it’s not fair.
Slide reading, “Do not lose heart. We were made for these times. We are needed, that is all we can know. And though we meet resistance, we more so will meet great souls who will hail us, guide us, and we will know them when they appear.” Clarissa Pinka Estes, Letter to a Young Activist During Troubled Times
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Text of letter to our students-sorry not to be able to recreate the whole letter here.
Photograph of Val Kilmer in a tuxedo
Letter of resignation from former Skadden attorney
Flyer for States and the Battle to Secure Reproductive Freedoms Post-Dobbs, Symposium hosted by the University of Baltimore Law Review and the Center on Applied Feminism. Seven photos of reproductive rights marches and slogans including Our bodies, our minds, our power; their body, their choice; and reproductive rights are human rights. Box including information about the conference: Friday March 28, 20205, 9 a.m. to 5:30 pm at the University of Baltimore School of Law. QR code for more information
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Screenshot of post saying “Raisins are not to be trusted. They like to hide in cookies and masquerade as chocolate chips. Go with real chocolate chips!”
Photograph of Tiffany Yang receiving award from unidentified individual
Photograph of Section on AALS Civil Procedure Junior Scholarship Award winner Justin Weinstein-Tull and runners up Edith Beerdsen, John Harland Giammatteo, and Tiffany Yang
Photograph of Professor Matiangai Sirleaf and other panel participants at the American Association of Law Schools' Annual Meeting
Photo of Governor Wes Moore under the headline “Gov. Moore: $2 billion in spending cuts coming to close budget gap”
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Two piles of books, including celebrity memoirs (Chris Stein, Connie Chung, Ed Begley Jr., Moon Unit Zappa, Billy Dee Williams), celebrity biographies (Bee Gees, Fleetwood Mac, Keith Haring, Joni Mitchell, Luke Perry) and one women’s history.
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Cover of Imperfect Victims:Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition Feminism by Leigh Goodmark-black, white and hot pink pattern
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Flyer for Embracing Abolition Feminism with picture of Leigh Goodmark, Director of the Gender, Prison, and Trauma Clinic at the University of Maryland Carey School of Law
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Flyer for National Association for Public Defense Women's Virtual Conference on December 6 at 3:45 p.m., with picture of Leigh Goodmark and name of panel, Elevating Marginalized Voices: The Role of Public Defense in Recognizing and Representing Criminalized Survivors.
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Cover of Decriminalizing Domestic Violence by Leigh Goodmark
Cover of Imperfect Victims by Leigh Goodmark-black and hot pink like an 80s album cover
Harness Tower at Yale
Dave Bautista in a rainbow pride T-shirt that reads Be You
Flyer for Yale Law’s DefCon Conference featuring keynote speaker Alec Karakatsanis
Beach at sunrise
Flyer with photo of Alec Karakatsanis and details of the DefCon Conference