Risa Goluboff is a lawyer and legal historian, and dean of the University of Virginia School of School of Law. She is also she is also the Arnold H. Leon Professor of Law and a professor of history at the University of Virginia.Goluboff's work has appeared in Slate, PBS, and the podcast “BackStory.” She is the host, with Vice Dean Leslie Kendrick, of the UVA Law School podcast “Common Law.”From 2000 to 2001, Guloboff clerked for Judge Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. From 2001 to 2002, she clerked for Justice Stephen Breyer of the U.S. Supreme Court.Goluboff's first book "The Lost Promise of Civil Rights," was published in 2007. Her second book, "Vagrant Nation: Police Power, Constitutional Change, and the Making of the 1960s," was published in 2016.Goluboff received her A.B from Harvard University, her M.A. from Princeton University, her J.D. from Yale Law School, and her Ph.D.from Princeton University.