 
| Risa Goluboff Professor of Law Professor of History Caddell & Chapman Research Professor Ph.D., Princeton University, 2003 J.D., Yale Law School, 2000 M.A., Princeton University, 1999 A.B., Harvard University, 1994 Risa Goluboff teaches constitutional law, civil rights litigation, and legal and constitutional history. Her scholarship focuses on the history of civil rights, labor, and constitutional law in the 20th century. Goluboff is a 2009 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellow in Constitutional Studies. She is using the fellowship to explore the demise of vagrancy law as part of the social transformations of the 1960s. Goluboff’s first book, The Lost Promise of Civil Rights (Harvard University Press, 2007), won the 2008 James Willard Hurst Prize, given by the Law and Society Association for the best work in socio-legal history published in 2007. Goluboff is also co-editor (with Myriam Gilles) of Civil Rights Stories (Foundation Press, 2008). Goluboff earned her J.D. from Yale Law School, and her Ph.D. in history from Princeton University. She clerked for Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and then for Stephen G. Breyer on the U.S. Supreme Court. She joined the faculty of the University of Virginia in 2002. Goluboff has also taught at the University of Cape Town as a Fulbright Scholar, and has served as a visiting professor at New York University Law School and Columbia Law School.
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