A member of the University's Academy of Distinguished Teachers, Steve Goode teaches Evidence, Criminal Law, and Professional Responsibility. He served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 1998 to 2006 and as Dean ad interim in 2006.
Evidence; criminal law; professional responsibility & ethics with emphasis on privileges and confidentiality; communication
Goode served as a reporter to the committees that drafted the Texas rules of evidence. He serves on both the Court of Criminal Appeals' Rules Advisory Committee and the State Bar Advisory Committee on the Rules of Evidence. He lectures on evidence extensively throughout the state, and teaches frequently at the College of Advanced Judicial Studies of the Texas Center for the Judiciary. He is a Life Fellow of Texas Bar Foundation. A graduate of Williams College and Yale Law School, Goode practiced law with the Children's Defense Fund in Washington, D.C. before joining the Texas faculty in 1977.
He is the author of several books on the law of evidence, including the two-volume Guide to the Texas Rules of Evidence: Civil and Criminal (2d ed. 1993) (with Wellborn and Sharlot), Courtroom Handbook on Texas Evidence (7th ed. 2000)(with Wellborn and Sharlot), and Courtroom Handbook on Federal Evidence (6th ed. 2000).
University Distinguished Teaching Professor
