Victor J. Gold
Dean, Professor of Law and William M. Rains Fellow, Loyola Law School
Senior Vice President, Loyola Marymount University
Contact Information
Phone: (213) 736-1062
Fax: (213) 380-3769
E-mail: victor.gold@lls.edu
919 Albany St.
Los Angeles, CA 90015-1211
Educational and Professional Background
B.A., cum laude, University of California, Los Angeles
J.D., UCLA School of Law, Order of the Coif
Fellow, Wolfson College, Cambridge University, England
Professor Victor Gold was named 16th dean of Loyola Law School and a senior vice president of Loyola Marymount University in January 2009 after spending a year as interim dean. He has earned myriad accolades as a legal educator and administrator since he started teaching at Loyola in 1984. His tenure as associate dean for academic affairs from 2000-2005 saw an increased focus on Loyola’s national stature, a drive to recruit top-notch professors and an emphasis on faculty research. Most recently, Dean Gold earned an Excellence in Teaching Award from the graduating class of 2007.
Dean Gold is the author of six books on the Federal Rules of Evidence. He has also written numerous articles on evidence and advocacy law. He lectures on evidence and contracts law for students preparing to take the bar exam in California, Arizona, Nevada and Oregon. Widely considered one of the country’s top experts in evidence law, Professor Gold served as a CBS New legal analyst from 1994-97. He taught in Loyola's LLM program at the University of Bologna, Italy, in 2006. And he is a fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge University, England.
Prior to teaching at Loyola, Dean Gold was a tenured law professor at Arizona State University and an associate at Nossaman, Krueger & Marsh, where he declined an offer to become partner to pursue his teaching career. He graduated Order of the Coif from UCLA School of Law, where he was an editor of the UCLA Law Review.
Dean Gold is a member of the American Law Institute and the author of Bar exam questions on contracts, remedies and evidence in California and Arizona. In addition to CBS News, he has provided legal commentary to The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, ABC News, NBC News, CNN and many other outlets.
Professional Memberships and Activities
Member, American Law Institute
CBS News Legal Consultant (1994-97)
Lecturer on Contract and Evidence Law, BAR/BRI Bar Review Course, 1989 to present
Evidence, A Structured Approach, 2d ed. (Aspen 2008)
Two Jurisdictions, Three Standards: The Admissibility of Misconduct Evidence to Impeach, 36 Southwestern Law Review 769, (2008)
Federal Practice and Procedure, Evidence, Vol. 27, 2d ed. (West Publishing Co.) (2007)
Federal Practice and Procedure, Annual Supplements to Vols. 27, 28, 29, 31, (West Publishing Co.) (2007)
Evidence: A Structured Approach, Case, Rules and Materials Suppement, (Aspen Publishers) (2006) (with David Leonard)
Evidence: A Structured Approach (Aspen Publishers) (2004) (with David Leonard)
"The War of Symbols," 35 Loyola Law Review 1157 (2002)
Federal Practice and Procedure, Evidence, Vol. 31, (West Publishing Co.) (2000) (with Charles Alan Wright)
Federal Practice and Procedure, Evidence, Vol. 29, (West Publishing Co.) (1997) (with Charles Alan Wright)
"The Jurisprudence of Yogi Berra," 46 Emory Law Journal 697 (1997) (with 38 others)
Contracts, Evidence, Scientific Evidence