Professor Emily Goldberg focuses on civil rights issues in the areas of prisoners' rights, police misconduct, and discrimination.  

Emily B. Goldberg is a Visiting Associate Clinical Professor in the Civil Litigation Clinic. She received her B.A., summa cum laude, in American Studies and a Certificate in Peace and Justice Studies from Tufts University, and her J.D. cum laude from New York University School of Law, where she served as a Staff Editor of the Review of Law and Social Change. During law school, Ms. Goldberg worked on prisoners’ rights litigation as a member of the NYU School of Law Civil Rights Clinic, and on voting rights issue as an intern in the Voting Section of the United States Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division. Her legal work in the area of voting rights represented a continuation of her prior academic work, which included an undergraduate Thesis presenting an historical, political, and legal analysis of majority-minority congressional districts, for which she received Highest Thesis Honors and the Ted Shapiro Prize for Outstanding Honors Thesis. After graduating from law school, Ms. Goldberg was a NAPIL (now Equal Justice Works) Fellow, first with the National Women’s Law Center in Washington D.C. and then with the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights & Urban Affairs. Her fellowship focused on gender discrimination in the areas of education and employment, and she represented clients in cases brought under Title IX, Title VII, and the Family Medical Leave Act. After completing her fellowship, Ms. Goldberg continued to work with the Washington Lawyers’ Committee, practicing in the areas of employment and housing discrimination. Thereafter, Ms. Goldberg returned to New York City to serve as a law clerk for the Honorable Lawrence M. McKenna, United States District Court, Southern District of New York. Thereafter, Ms. Goldberg joined the law firm of Gibbons P.C. as an Associate/Gibbons Fellow in Public Interest and Constitutional Law where she practiced in the areas of civil rights, immigrants’ rights, prisoners’ rights, and death penalty.