The Callis Family Professor of Law

Roger L. Goldman is the nation’s foremost expert on police licensing and license revocation laws. For more than two decades 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 his crusade to expose police misconduct, 15 states were without decertification/revocation laws. Today, only six states remain. Professor Goldman’s extensive research has demonstrated these states are ill-equipped 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.

Professor Goldman has been a guest speaker at national conferences sponsored by the U.S. Department of Justice, the Congressional Black Caucus and the International Association of Directors of Law Enforcement Standards and Training. He has even testified before congressional committees and state legislatures.

Educated at Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Professor Goldman is also a leading expert on the U.S. Supreme Court and constitutional law. He is an award-winning 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 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work. Both national and local media frequently seek Professor Goldman’s professional commentary.