| Victor Goode
Email
Phone
(718) 340-4310
Office
245C
Victor Goode, Associate Professor, earned a B.A. from Northwestern
University and a J.D. from Rutgers Law School. He has practiced in the areas of
affirmative action, housing, and other civil rights issues. Before joining the
Law School faculty, he served as Executive Director of the National Conference
of Black Lawyers, founded the Affirmative Action Coordinating Center, worked as
part of the legal team that filed amicus briefs in three landmark affirmative
action cases (Bakke, Weber, and Fullilove), and taught in
the Urban Legal Studies Program at the City College of New York. He has served
continuously at the Law School since 1983-as Professor of Law and as Associate
Dean for Academic Affairs-except for two years as Visiting Professor at Columbia
University Law School, where he taught in the Fair Housing Clinic and assisted
in the introduction of computer-assisted course material for the Clinic.
He has lectured widely on teaching professional skills and values, and
has given Congressional testimony on police misconduct and racially-motivated
violence. His many organizational affiliations have included the Society of
American Law Teachers, the Northeast Regional BLSA Job Fair, and, most recently,
the New York City Open Housing Center. He teaches a variety of first-year
courses and has also taught Housing Discrimination Law, and a Race and the Law
seminar.
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