Risa L. Goluboff
Goluboff in 2022
12th Dean of the University of Virginia School of Law
Incumbent
Assumed office July 1, 2016
Preceded by	Paul Mahoney
Personal details
Alma mater	Harvard 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. [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.