Steven H. Goldberg, Professor of Law Emeritus at Elisabeth Haub School of Law

Steven H. Goldberg

Professor of Law Emeritus
Elisabeth Haub School of Law
sgoldberg@law.pace.edu

Biography

Emeritus Professor Steven H. Goldberg currently teaches Evidence, Torts, and Constitutional Law. He served as dean of Haub Law from 1989 through 1993. The 2008 graduating class selected Professor Goldberg as the Barbara C. Salken Outstanding Professor of the Year.

Professor Goldberg is the author of a trial advocacy book, The First Trial (Where Do I Sit? What Do I Say?), which has been popular with the nation’s law students and lawyers for more than 30 years, and is the co-author (with Park, Leonard and Orenstein) of an evidence treatise in the West Hornbook Series, Evidence Law: A Student’s Guide to the Law of Evidence as Applied in American Trials. The winner of the 1997 Keck Foundation National Legal Ethics Essay competition, Professor Goldberg has published articles on alternative dispute resolution, constitutional law, criminal procedure, and trial advocacy, in addition to works on legal ethics. He has taught at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law and at the University of Minnesota School of Law, where he was the associate dean for academic affairs and external relations.

Professor Goldberg served for a decade on the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Criminal Justice Standards, chaired an ABA Task Force on Commitment of Non-responsibility Acquittees, was a member of the Standards Review Committee of the Section on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar, and served as co-chair of the Westchester County Bar Association’s Committee on Lawyer Ethics from 1991 to 2002. He is a member of the American Law Institute.

Education

  • BA, Northwestern University
  • JD, University of Minnesota Law School

Honors & Awards

  • Barbara C. Salken Outstanding Professor of the Year, 2007–2008

Selected Publications

Books

  • Evidence Law: A Student's Guide to the Law of Evidence as Applied in American Trials (St. Paul, Minn.: West Group, 1998. Third Edition, 2011) (with Roger C. Park, David P. Leonard and Aviva Orenstein)
  • The First Trial: Where Do I Sit? What Do I Say? In a Nutshell (St. Paul, Minn.: West Publishing, 1982, Second Edition, 2011) (with Tracy Walters McCormick)

Articles