Risa L. Goluboff
Goluboff in 2022
12th Dean of the University of Virginia School of Law
Assumed office
July 1, 2016
Preceded byPaul Mahoney
Personal details
Alma materHarvard University (AB)
Princeton University (MA, PhD)
Yale University (JD)

Risa Lauren Goluboff is an American lawyer and legal historian who serves as the 12th dean of the University of Virginia School of Law; she is 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]

Background

Goluboff studied History and Sociology as an undergraduate at Harvard University before attending Yale Law School, where she graduated in 2000. She also received a Doctor of Philosophy in History from Princeton University.[2]

Career

From 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]

Works

  • Goluboff, Risa L. (2016). Vagrant Nation: Police Power, Constitutional Change, and the Making of the 1960s. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199768448.
  • 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
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

References

  1. "Faculty - University of Virginia School of Law". Archived from the original on 2014-02-14. Retrieved 2014-02-25.
  2. 1 2 "Risa Goluboff". University of Virginia School of Law. 22 July 2016. Archived from the original on March 8, 2022. Retrieved April 4, 2022.
  3. "Goluboff Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship". 8 April 2009.
  4. "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Risa L. Goluboff". Gf.org. 2014-06-20. Retrieved 2018-04-27.
  5. "UVA Selects Risa L. Goluboff as Dean of the School of Law". Archived from the original on 2015-11-23. Retrieved 2015-11-21.
  • Articles by Risa Goluboff at Slate


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