Professor Goetting joined the faculty of Adrian College in 2008 and currently serves there as a Professor of Criminal Justice and Jurisprudence and the Director of the George W. Romney Institute for Law and Public Policy. He began teaching at the University of Toledo College of Law in 2016 and was given a Prestige Faculty appointment in 2025. His scholarship focuses on constitutional law and civil liberties.
He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in General Education from Aquinas College, a small liberal arts school in Grand Rapids, MI before earning a Master of Arts in Philosophy from Western Michigan University. He served as an intern for the Cooley Innocence Project while a student at Thomas M. Cooley Law School, where he spent two terms working on several rape and murder cases.
Professor Goetting has taught at three law schools, served as faculty advisor to The University of Toledo Law Review, and has published dozens of writings on legal issues, mostly dealing with the rights of those accused of crimes and freedom of expression. He has twice won Adrian College’s Creative Activity, Research, and Scholarship Award (faculty-wide for best contribution to one’s field). Professor Goetting's 2025 book, The Supreme Court's Actual Innocence Problem, argues that the Supreme Court has failed to adequately respond to data on DNA exonerations and has continued, in every major area where reform is needed, to minimize and perpetuate miscarriages of justice.
Professor Goetting lives in Adrian, Michigan with his wife, Amanda; his sons, Lucas and Samuel; and his dogs Francie and Stewart. Outside the classroom, he enjoys reading, classic movies, and sports.