WE ARE GRATEFUL TO PROFESSOR GOLDMAN’S CONTRIBUTION IN THE NYS 2015 AND LOOK FORWARD TO HIM JOINING US IN SEPTEMBER, 2016 AT UMSL.

ROGER L. GOLDMAN

Roger L. Goldman, the Callis Family Professor of Law Emeritus at Saint Louis University School of Law, is the nation’s foremost expert on police licensing and license revocation laws. For more than 25 years he has been helping states write and adopt laws that provide for removing the license or certificate of an officer who engages in serious misconduct, such as sexual assault and brutality.

When Professor Goldman began to address the problem of unfit police officers’ moving from one department to another within a state, 15 states were without decertification/revocation laws. Today, only six states remain without revocation authority; he is now working with individuals in those states to enact such laws to keep bad officers off their streets. Professor Goldman’s ultimate goal is to help create a federally mandated national data bank of decertified police officers to prevent them from moving and being employed in a different state.

Educated at Harvard College and the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Professor Goldman is also a leading expert on the U.S. Supreme Court and constitutional law. In addition to his many articles on police licensing, he is an author of three books on the U.S. Supreme Court: The Role of the Supreme Court in Protecting Civil Rights and Liberties; Justice William J. Brennan, Jr.: Freedom First; and Thurgood Marshall: Justice for All, which was a finalist for the 1992 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work. Both national and local media frequently seek Professor Goldman’s professional commentary.

PUBLICATIONS:

The Resegregation Decisions and the New Federalism, in Choosing Equality : Essays and Narratives on the Desegregation Experience 182-193 (Leland Ware & Robert L. Hayman eds., Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009)

The Role of the United States Supreme Court in Protecting Civil Rights and Liberties (with Stan Frankowski and Ewa Letowska)(Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, 1997)(in Polish and Russian)

Citizenship Through Sports and Law (with Linda Riekes and Dolores B. Malcolm (1996)

William J. Brennan, Jr.: Freedom First (Carroll & Graf, 1994)

Thurgood Marshall, Justice for All (Carroll & Graf, 1992) (Nominated for 1993 NAACP Image Award for outstanding literary work)

Alcohol, Drugs and the Bill of Rights (St. Louis Public Schools, 1992)

The Military and the Constitution (St. Louis Public Schools, 1992)

Individual Rights: The Universal Challenge (Citizenship Education Clearing House, 1991)

Teaching About the Bill of Rights in Elementary and Middle School Classrooms (with L. Riekes and S. Slane)(PAD Public Service Center, 1991)

Teacher’s Resource Guide, Conflicts, Courts and Trials (with L. Riekes, C. Kelly, C.Marske) (West, 1991)

Conflict, Courts and Trials (3d Ed) (with L. Riekes, C. Kelly, C. Marske) (West, 1991)

Teacher’s Resource Manual, The Bill of Rights and YOU (with S. Jenkins, L. Riekes, S. Slane) (West, 1990)

Federal Criminal Trial Evidence (with J. O’Brien) (PLI, 1989)

The Bill of Rights and YOU (with L. Riekes, S. Jenkins, and P. McKissack) (West, 1989)

LINKS:

St. Louis University School of Law: http://www.slu.edu/colleges/law/slulaw/faculty/goldmanrl

STL Beacon:  https://www.stlbeacon.org/#!/content/23638/trayvon_law_scoop_lack_of_jurisdiction

Paris Interview on Ferguson: http://vimeo.com/104111669