Rachel D. Godsil has long been involved in civil rights, land use, and environmental justice law and policy. She is the Eleanor Bontecou Professor of Law at Seton Hall University School of Law. Professor 

Professor Godsil has written extensively on the convergence of race, poverty, and the environment. Current projects include: Protecting Status: The Mortgage Crisis, Eminent Domain, and the Crisis of Homeownership (forthcoming Fordham University Law Review); Contaminants in the Air and Soil in New Orleans after the Flood: Opportunities and Limitations for Community Empowerment, co-authored with Al Huang and Gina Solomon, in Katrina After The Flood (ed. Robert Bullard) (2008). Previously published work includes: Just Compensation in an Ownership Society, co-authored with David Simunovich, in "Private Property, Community Development, & Eminent Domain" (ed. Robin Paul Malloy)( 2007); Race Nuisance: The Politics of Law in the Jim Crow Era, 105 Mich. L. Rev. 505 (2006); Awakening From The Dream: Civil Rights Under Siege And The New Struggle For Equal Justice (co-edited with Denise Morgan)(Carolina Academic Press 2005); Viewing the Cathedral from Behind the Color Line: Property Rules, Liability Rules, and Environmental Racism, 53 Emory L. J. 1807 (2004); Environmental Justice and the Integration Ideal, 59 NY L. J. 1109 (2004); Expressivism, Empathy and Equality, 336 U. Mich. J.L. Ref. 247 (2003); Jobs, Trees, and Autonomy: The Convergence of the Environmental Justice Movement and Community Economic Development, co-author with James Freeman, 5 U. Md. J. Contemp. Legal Issues 25 (1993-94); The Question of Risk: Incorporating Community Perceptions into Environmental Risk Assessments, co-author with James Freeman, 221 Fordham Urban L.J. 547 (1994); and Note, Remedying Environmental Racism, 90 Mich. L. Rev. 394 (1991).

Prior to joining the Seton Hall School of Law faculty in 2000, Professor Godsil was an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, an Associate Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, an associate with Berle, Kass & Case and Arnold & Porter in New York City, a law clerk for the Honorable John M. Walker, Jr., U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and a research associate for the Corporation for Enterprise Development. She was a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School in the fall of 2007. Professor Godsil received her B.A. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and her J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Michigan Law School. At Michigan, Professor Godsil served as the Executive Article Editor of the Michigan Law Review, was awarded the Henry M. Bates Memorial Award, and was elected to the Order of the Coif.

Race-Nuisance: The Politics of Law in the Jim Crow Era, 105 Mich. L. Rev. (forthcoming December 2006).

Building Upon Sax’s Edifice: The Evolution of Environmental Justice and the Challenges of the Engaged Scholarship (ed. Gerald Torres)(forthcoming University of Michigan Press 2007)

Viewing the Cathedral from Behind the Color Line: Property Rules, Liability Rules, and Environmental Racism, 54 Emory L. J. 1808 (2004)

Environmental Justice and the Integration Ideal, 59 NY L. J. 1109 (2004)

Expressivism, Empathy and Equality, 36 U. Mich. J.L. Ref. 247 (2003)