Associate professor of law (property, civil procedure, confinement, offender reentry and public policy, business law for entrepreneurs (at Rutgers Business School-Newark and New Brunswick)
Professor Henderson received her A.B. from Dartmouth College, and her J.D.,
M.A., and Ph.D. from New York University. At NYU School of Law, she was a Dean's Scholar, senior
notes editor of the N.Y.U. Law Review, and recipient of the
Gary E. Moncrieffe Graduation Award. After
graduating law school, Professor Henderson served as the Derrick Bell
Teaching Fellow in constitutional law at NYU School of Law and also
clerked for the Hon. Consuelo B. Marshall, U.S. District Court, Central
District of California.
Before joining the Rutgers faculty in 2010, Professor Henderson was an associate in the litigation practice group of Arnold & Porter L.L.P. in New York, where her practice included complex commercial litigation and pro bono civil rights advocacy. Her teaching and research interests are in slavery, social control organizations, incarceration and prisoner reentry, law and society, and land use/property.
Professor Henderson's work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in N.Y.U. Law Review, Lewis and Clark L. Rev., Columbia J. of Race and Law, the Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class, and the Law and History Review. In 2013, she was a fellow at the J. Willard Hurst Summer Institute in Legal History at the University of Wisconsin.
Since 2010, Professor Henderson has organized and facilitated the Rutgers Reentry Roundtable, and she is a member of the steering committees for Newark Reentry Legal Services (ReLeSe). Professor Henderson is also a member of the board of directors of Practicing Attorneys for Law Students Program, Inc. (PALS). In 2013, the Rutgers-Newark Student Bar Association awarded Professor Henderson with the law school's "Professor of the Year" award.
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