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goluboff@virginia.edu
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Delores Clatterbuck

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

Risa L. Goluboff

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’s scholarship focuses on the history of civil rights, labor and constitutional law in the 20th century. Goluboff’s 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 received a 2009 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in Constitutional Studies 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. In 2011, she received the University of Virginia’s All-University Teaching Award.

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

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