Robert J. Goodwin

Cumberland School of Law

Professor Goodwin obtained his B.A. degree from the University of Missouri and his J.D. degree from Washington University.Professor Goodwin taught at Washington University’s School of Law from 1981 to 1983 and joined the faculty at Samford University’s Cumberland School of Law in the fall of 1983. He was the director of Cumberland’s Center for Trial Advocacy and Clinical Education from 1984 to 1991. During this time the Center was awarded the American College of Trial Lawyer’s prestigious “Emil Gumpert Award” for excellence in teaching trial advocacy.  He served as Cumberland’s Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 2012 to 2014. Professor Goodwin is the author of the nationally adopted law school casebook, Criminal and Forensic Evidence, and is a Fellow in the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. He is a co-author of McElroy’s Alabama Evidence, and Gamble’s Alabama Rules of Evidence, and serves as reporter for the Alabama Supreme Court’s Advisory Committee on the Alabama Rules of Evidence. Professor Goodwin has written extensively on issues related to expert testimony and his articles have been cited by state and federal courts.