Goodwin H. Liu

Goodwin Liu is an associate justice of the California Supreme Court. Before joining the state’s highest court, he was professor of law and associate dean at the UC Berkeley School of Law. He was also codirector of the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity, and Diversity at Berkeley Law. His areas of expertise are constitutional law, education law and policy, and diversity in the legal profession. He is a former Rhodes Scholar. Liu received his JD from Yale Law School.

updated 2025