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  Rutgers Law School 2019-2021 Faculty and Administration Elise Boddie  

Elise Boddie


Elise Boddie, a nationally recognized expert in civil rights, was previously the director of litigation for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. She is a frequent public speaker and the author of several articles. She holds a master's degree in public policy in addition to her law degree.

Boddie is a professor of law, Henry Rutgers University Professor, and Judge Robert L. Carter Scholar. She teaches Constitutional Law, Civil Rights, and state and local government law.  Before joining the Rutgers faculty, she was the director of litigation for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF). She supervised LDF's nationwide litigation program, including its advocacy in several major Supreme Court and federal appellate cases involving voting rights, affirmative action, and fair housing. From 1999-2005, she litigated affirmative action, employment, economic justice, and school desegregation cases in federal district courts and in the courts of appeals. During this period, she served as LDF's director of education and as an associate director of litigation.

Professor Boddie received her J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School and her B.A. cum laude from Yale. She also holds a master's degree in public policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. Following a clerkship for Judge Robert L. Carter in the Southern District of New York, she litigated at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson in its New York office as the first recipient of the Fried, Frank/LDF fellowship. She has also taught at New York Law School and at Fordham Law School, as a visiting assistant professor.

In 2012, the Law and Society Association awarded her the John Hope Franklin Prize for her article, "Racial Territoriality," which appeared in the UCLA Law Review. She has also published in the Vanderbilt Law Review, the North Carolina Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, the Harvard Law Review Forum, the UCLA Law Review Discourse, and the Iowa Law Review Bulletin. Her commentary has appeared in the New York Times, SCOTUSblog, Slate, the Huffington Post, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. She is a frequent public speaker and has appeared on MSNBC, NBC Nightly News, Democracy Now, and National Public Radio, among other television and radio programs.

Boddie is a member of the national board of the American Constitution Society, the board of the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice, and the steering committee of the National Coalition on School Diversity. She coordinated the Civil Rights and Racial Justice Policy Working Group for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign. She serves on the Rutgers-Newark Chancellor's Commission on Diversity and Transformation and has served on the boards of the North Star Fund, the Passaic County Legal Aid Society, Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan New Jersey, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York's Labor and Employment Law Committee, and on a blue ribbon task force convened by the Montclair, New Jersey, school superintendent to promote integration in the local public schools.

In 2017, Boddie was elected as a member of the American Law Institute. In 2016, Rutgers University President Robert Barchi appointed Boddie a Henry Rutgers Professor in recognition of the high quality of her scholarship, teaching, and service.
 
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