Risa Lauren Goluboff is an American legal scholar who served as the 12th dean of the University of Virginia School of Law from 2016 to 2024, the first woman to hold the position. She is also the Arnold H. Leon Professor of Law and a professor of history at the University of Virginia.[1]
Risa L. Goluboff | |
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.jpg) Goluboff in 2022 | |
| 12th Dean of the University of Virginia School of Law | |
| In office July 1, 2016 – June 30, 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Paul Mahoney |
| Succeeded by | Leslie Kendrick |
| Personal details | |
| Education | Harvard University (BA) Princeton University (MA, PhD) Yale University (JD) |
Education
editGoluboff studied history and sociology as an undergraduate at Harvard University, where she earned a B.A. in 1994. In 1999, she received a M.A. from Princeton University before attending Yale Law School, where she graduated in 2000. She also received a Doctor of Philosophy in history from Princeton University in 2003.[2]
Career
editFrom 2000 to 2001, she clerked for Judge Guido Calabresi of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. From 2001 to 2002, she was clerk for Justice Stephen Breyer of the Supreme Court of the United States. She served as a Fulbright Scholar to South Africa.[2]
In 2009, she won a Guggenheim fellowship.[3][4]
On November 20, 2015, she was selected to be the dean of the University of Virginia School of Law, and took office July 1, 2016.[5] She retired from the position on June 30, 2024,[6] and was succeeded by Leslie Kendrick.[7]
Works
edit- Goluboff, Risa L. (2016). Vagrant Nation: Police Power, Constitutional Change, and the Making of the 1960s. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199768448. [1]
- Goluboff, Risa L. (2007). The lost promise of civil rights. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674024656. Preview.
- Editor
- Goluboff, Risa L.; Gilles, Myriam E., eds. (2008). Civil Rights Stories. Foundation Press. ISBN 9781599410814.
- Journal articles
- Goluboff, Risa L. (April 2001). "The Thirteenth Amendment and the Lost Origins of Civil Rights". Duke Law Journal. 50 (6): 1609–1685. doi:10.2307/1373044. JSTOR 1373044. Pdf.
- Goluboff, Risa L. (June 2003). "'We Live in a Free House Such As It Is:' Class and the Creation of Modern Civil Rights". University of Pennsylvania Law Review. 151 (6): 1977–2018. doi:10.2307/3313023. JSTOR 3313023. S2CID 145165357.
- Goluboff, Risa L. (June 2005). "'Let Economic Equality Take Care of Itself:' The NAACP, Labor Litigation, and the Making of the Civil Rights in the 1940s". UCLA Law Review. 52: 1393.
- PhD Thesis
- Goluboff, Risa L. (2003). The work of civil rights in the 1940s: the Department of Justice, the NAACP, and African American agricultural labor. Princeton University Library.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Faculty - University of Virginia School of Law". Archived from the original on 2014-02-14. Retrieved 2014-02-25.
- ^ a b "Risa Goluboff". University of Virginia School of Law. 22 July 2016. Archived from the original on March 8, 2022. Retrieved April 4, 2022.
- ^ "Goluboff Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship". 8 April 2009.
- ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Risa L. Goluboff". Gf.org. 2014-06-20. Retrieved 2018-04-27.
- ^ "UVA Selects Risa L. Goluboff as Dean of the School of Law". Archived from the original on 2015-11-23. Retrieved 2015-11-21.
- ^ Wood, Mary (September 21, 2023). "Dean Risa Goluboff To Step Down in 2024, Concluding History-Making Tenure". University of Virginia Law School. Retrieved July 15, 2024.
- ^ Wood, Mary (December 18, 2023). "UVA Names Leslie Kendrick as Next Dean of the School of Law". University of Virginia Law School. Retrieved July 15, 2024.
External links
edit- Articles by Risa Goluboff at Slate
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