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Articles by Risa Goluboff
Take a Summer Road Trip Through Local ‘Landmarks’ in Law
Road trips are a quintessential part of summer — why not learn something along the way? Professors at the University of Virginia School of Law recommend landmarks to visit in Virginia and Washington, D.C., that are connected to landmarks in law. The seven destinations include stops in Charlottesville, Norfolk and Georgetown — see the map for a possible route. Stop 1: Gregory Hayes Swanson v.
Outgoing Law Dean Challenges Graduates: ‘If Not You, Who?”
University News Outgoing Law Dean Challenges Graduates: ‘If Not You, Who?” By Risa Goluboff, risa.goluboff@law.virginia.edu Risa Goluboff, risa.goluboff@law.virginia.edu The text of School of Law Dean Risa Goluboff’s address to the University of Virginia’s Class of 2024, delivered May 19 on the Lawn: Thank you, Rector Hardie for that introduction. Thank you, President Ryan, for inviting me to speak today. And thank you to everyone who makes this amazing day possible.
UVa Law dean tapped for nonprofit board of directors
Dispatchist News from around the globe in real time Client login News Sources Countries People Categories Organizations Risa Goluboff, the first woman dean of UVa’s law school, will join the board of directors at the nonprofit Equal Justice Works.
I Clerked for Justice Breyer. There’s One Thing I Hope Remains on the Court Long After He’s Gone.
Jurisprudence U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer holds up a copy of the U.S. Constitution as Breyer announces he will retire at the end of the court’s current term. REUTERS During his retirement speech at the White House on Thursday , Justice Stephen Breyer directed much of his remarks to the students in the audience. A few years ago, I had the pleasure of attending a speech he gave exclusively to law students.
Dean Risa Goluboff Releases Message on Violence in D.C.
The U.S. Capitol building, at a more peaceful moment, in Washington, D.C. Photo by iStock Dear Students, Yesterday’s attack on the Capitol while Congress and the Vice President were gathered to certify the vote of the electors was an assault on our democracy. The rule of law and the peaceful transfer of power are central to our identities not only as Americans, but as students and practitioners of the law.
Why Supporters of Voter ID Laws Should Have To Answer for the Ugly History of Jim Crow
An elderly black woman in Tennessee can’t vote because she can’t produce her marriage certificate. Threatening letters blanket black neighborhoods warning that creditors and police officers will check would-be voters at the polls, or that elections are taking place on the wrong day. Thirty-eight states have instituted new rules prohibiting same-day registration and early voting on Sundays.
Starbucks, LA Fitness and the long, racist history of America’s loitering laws
About US is a new initiative by The Washington Post to cover issues of identity in the United States. . In January 1959, Sam Thompson entered the Liberty End Cafe in Louisville. While he waited to catch a bus nearby, he ordered macaroni and a beer and shuffled his feet to the music. Two police officers entered the bar and arrested Thompson for loitering. In short order, the local police court convicted Thompson, and not for the first time.
Vagrancy laws and the legacy of the civil rights movement.
As Black Lives Matters mobilizes a new generation of social movement activists, it’s worth looking back at the old one. The legacies of the civil rights movement of the 1960s include hopeful developments—the rise of the black middle class and the election of Barack Obama as the nation’s first black president. They include the inspiration and model the movement itself offered to other groups striving for legal and social change.
It took 20 years to shoot down vagrancy laws. Then we got stop-and-frisk
As we debate police misconduct, and especially the rampant practice of stopping and frisking, we should remember that these debates are not new.
The Forgotten Law That Gave Police Nearly Unlimited Power
In 1949 Los Angeles, a police officer arrested Isidore Edelman as he spoke from a park bench in Pershing Square. Twenty years later, an officer in Jacksonville, Florida, arrested Margaret “Lorraine” Papachristou when she was out for a night on the town. Edelman and Papachristou had very little in common. Edelman was a middle-aged, Russian-born, communist-inclined soapbox orator. Papachristou was blond, statuesque, twenty-three, and a Jacksonville native.
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