Faculty - University of Virginia School of Law

CONTACT
goluboff@virginia.edu
(434) 924-3749
Room WB389

ASSISTANT
Delores Clatterbuck

SUBJECTS
Civil rights, Constitutional history, Constitutional law, Equal protection, Gender and the law, Race, Race in legal history

Risa L. Goluboff

John Allan Love Professor of Law; Justice Thurgood Marshall Distinguished Professor of Law; Professor of History
Ph.D., Princeton University, 2003
J.D., Yale Law School, 2000
M.A., Princeton University, 1999
A.B., Harvard University, 1994

Risa Goluboff studies 20th-century American legal and constitutional history. Her first book, The Lost Promise of Civil Rights (Harvard University Press, 2007), won the 2010 Order of the Coif Biennial Book Award and the 2008 James Willard Hurst Prize. Goluboff has received a 2009 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in Constitutional Studies and a 2012 Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies to support her current work on the demise of vagrancy laws as part of the social transformations of the 1960s. Goluboff is also co-editor (with Myriam Gilles) of Civil Rights Stories (Foundation Press, 2008). Goluboff teaches constitutional law, civil rights litigation, and legal and constitutional history, and she directs UVA’s joint J.D.-M.A. program in history. In 2011, she received the University of Virginia’s All-University Teaching Award. She is an affiliated GAGE scholar at the Miller Center and a faculty affiliate at the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies. In 2012, Goluboff was named a distinguished lecturer by the Organization of American Historians.

Scholarship Profile: A Legal Historian Committed to Contemporary Social Justice (Virginia Journal 2007)

Publications
Current Courses

All Courses

Civil Rights History From Plessy to Brown
Civil Rights Litigation
Constitutional Law
Equality and the Law
Poverty and the Constitution
Seminar in Ethical Values

In the Media

"Court Panel Overturns Dismissal of Charlottesville Panhandling Suit" (The Daily Progress, 02/21/2013)
"A Fraudulent Case" (Slate, 10/20/2011)
"UVA Profs: Sotomayor Faces Smooth Confirmation" (The Hook, 05/26/2009)
"Guggenheim Fellowship Awards for the United States and Canada, 2009" (John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 04/09/2009)
"The Battle Over Brown/How Conservatives Appropriated Brown v. Board of Education" (author) (Slate, 07/02/2007)
"Commentary: The Real World/Why Judicial Philosophies Matter" (co-author) (Slate, 09/07/2005)
"Civil Rights Cases Rarely Get to Court" (The Cincinnati Enquirer, 01/12/2005)