Clinical Professor of Law. Professor Gottesman is a Phi
Beta Kappa graduate of Wesleyan University. She received her J.D. from
Columbia Law School where she was a James Kent Scholar. Prior to
joining the Rutgers faculty in 2002, Professor Gottesman worked as a
Kirkland & Ellis Public Service Fellow in the Immigration Unit of
the Legal Aid Society of New York. For her fellowship project,
Professor Gottesman provided information and representation to
immigrants in deportation proceedings as a result of juvenile offenses
and to immigrant children in foster care. After her fellowship,
she remained at the Legal Aid Society, practicing in the housing and
immigration law fields. She later served as a law clerk to
U.S. District Court Judge Edmund V. Ludwig in Philadelphia. In
addition to teaching Professional Responsibility, Professor Gottesman
teaches in the Civil Practice Clinic, a student-staffed law office that
represents low-income Camden residents in a range of legal
matters. Her research interests focus on the intersection between
immigration and criminal law. With the support of the Defending
Immigrants Partnership (DIP), she has written "The Immigration
Consequences of Selected New Jersey Criminal Offenses," a 30-page chart
distributed by the Office of the New Jersey Public Defender and the DIP
member organizations. The chart is used by criminal defense attorneys
who represent noncitizens in New Jersey to determine the immigration
consequences of potential pleas.
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