Risa L. Goluboff

Risa Lauren Goluboff is an American legal scholar who served as the 12th dean of the University of Virginia School of Law from 2016 to 2024, 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.

Education Goluboff studied history and sociology as an undergraduate at Harvard University, where she earned a B.A. in 1994. In 1999, she received an M.A. from Princeton University before attending Yale Law School, where she graduated in 2000. She also received a Ph.D. in history from Princeton University in 2003.

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.

On November 20, 2015, she was selected to be the dean of the University of Virginia School of Law, becoming the first woman to hold the position, and took office July 1, 2016. She retired from the position on June 30, 2024, and was succeeded by Leslie Kendrick.

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