Risa Lauren Goluboff is an American legal scholar who served as the 12th dean of the

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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

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Education

Goluboff studied history and sociology as an undergraduate at

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, where she earned a

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in 1994. In 1999, she received a

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from

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before attending

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, where she graduated in 2000. She also received a

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in history from

in 2003.

Career

From 2000 to 2001, she clerked for Judge

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of the

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. From 2001 to 2002, she was clerk for Justice

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of the

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. She served as a

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. In 2009, she won a

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. On November 20, 2015, she was selected to be the dean of the

, and took office July 1, 2016. She retired from the position on June 30, 2024, and was succeeded by

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