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Risa L Goluboff
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Name
Risa Goluboff
Books
The Lost Promise of Civil Rights
Awards
Guggenheim Fellowship for Social Sciences, US & Canada
Constitution day 2013 risa l goluboff
Risa Lauren Goluboff is the 12th, and the first female, dean of the University of Virginia School of Law. An American lawyer and legal historian, she is also the Arnold H. Leon Professor of Law and a professor of history at the University of Virginia.
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 Ph.D. in History from Princeton University. From 2000 to 2001, she clerked for Judge Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. From 2001 to 2002, she was clerk for Justice Stephen Breyer of the U.S. Supreme Court.
In 2009, she won a Guggenheim fellowship.
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. [bad link]
Works
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. Duke University School of Law. 50: 1609–1685. JSTOR 1373044. doi:10.2307/1373044. 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. University of Pennsylvania School of Law. 151: 1977.
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. UCLA School of Law. 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.
