Rashmi Goel
Professor of Law
303-871-6528 (Office)
Office 415H, Frank H. Ricketson Law Bldg., 2255 East Evans Ave. Denver, CO 80208
Professional Biography
Professor Rashmi Goel specializes in Criminal Law, Comparative Law, Mental Health, and Multiculturalism. Her globally informed scholarship utilizes a cross-border lens to examine how different legal systems treat individuals facing psychological, medical, and neurodegenerative conditions. Goel’s recent research, including her work on trial competency and dementia, critiques rigid legal standards and advocates for a more fluid, medically conscious approach to cognitive capacity within the justice system. Additionally, her work on culturally specific adjudication explores the forensic and ethical dilemmas of using psychological diagnoses for minority litigants. A graduate of the University of Saskatchewan and Stanford Law School, she also serves as the Director of the Rocky Mountain Collective on Race, Place and Law Program.
Degree(s)
- JSM, Criminal Law, Stanford University School of Law, 1996
- BA, English Literature, University of Saskatchewan, 1992
- LLB, University of Saskatchewan, 1992
Licensure / Accreditations
- Admitted to the Bar of the Province of Saskatchewan
Featured Publications
In Progress
- India has a Rape Problem: legislative reform in the age of India’s gang rapes (in progress).
- Reasonable Rape: a comparative analysis of the mistaken belief in consent defense in the UK, Canada and the United States (in progress).
Articles
- No Women at the Center: The Use of the Canadian Sentencing Circle in Domestic Violence Cases, 15 Wis. Women's L.J. 293 (2000).
- Can I Call Kimura Crazy - Ethical Tensions in the Cultural Defense, 3 Seattle J. Soc. Just. 443 (2004).
- From Tainted to Sainted: The View of Interracial Relations as Cultural Evangelism, 2007 Wis. L. Rev. 489 (2007).
- Delinquent of Distracted - Attention Deficit Disorder and the Construction of the Juvenile Offender, 27 Law & Ineq. 1 (2009).
- Panel on Problematizing Assumptions About Gender Violence (Transcript), 5 U. Miami Race & Soc. Just. L. Rev. 347 (2015).
- Women Who Kill Women, 22 Wm & Mary J. Women & L. 549 (2016).
- Grandma Got Arrested: Police, Excessive Force, and People with Dementia, 57 U. Rich. L. Rev. 335 (2023).
Book Chapters
- Indigenous Women’s Rights, in Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women: Global Women’s Issues and Knowledge (Chris Kramarae et al eds.) (2000).
- Coaxing Culture: India’s Legislative Response to Dowry Deaths, in Comparative Perspectives on Gender Violence: Lessons From Efforts Worldwide (2015).
- At Crossroads or Cross Purposes?: Aboriginal Women and Political Pursuit in Canadian Sentencing Circles, in Restorative Justice and Violence Against Women (James Ptacek, ed.) (2009).
- Comparative Approaches to Gender Violence: Lessons from Efforts Worldwide (with Leigh Goodmark) (Oxford University Press 2015).
