Joanne Gottesman directs the Immigrant Justice Clinic in Camden, a student-led law
office that represents clients in immigration matters. She practiced
housing and immigration law at the Legal Aid Society in New York and her
areas of expertise include child migration, U.S. immigration policy, and
poverty law. Before attending law school she lived and worked in China
for three years.
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 youthful offender adjudications or first 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.
Professor Gottesman graduated from Wesleyan University. She received
her J.D. from Columbia Law School, where she was a James Kent Scholar.
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