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Rachel D. Godsil

Eleanor Bontecou Professor of Law

  • Degrees:

  • J.D., University of Michigan Law School
  • B.A., University of Wisconsin, Madison

  • Contact:

  • rachel.godsil@shu.edu
  • Tel:  973-642-8957
  • SSRN Site link
  • Curriculum Vitae

  • Courses:

  • Property
  • Zoning, Planning & Land Use Policy
  • Constitutional Law
  • Civil Rights

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Professor Rachel Godsil, Beyond Implicit Bias at Race and Civil Rights in 2013: A Critical Analysis of 21st
Century Challenges and Opportunities, American University.

Professor Rachel Godsil, Managing the Implicit Biases & Stereotype Threats Faced by Diverse Lawyersat, National Conference for the Minority Lawyer Program.

Professor Rachel Godsil, Fisher v. University of Texas: Diversity in the Balance – The Potential Impact on Law Schools and the Legal Professionat, National Conference for the Minority Lawyer Program.

Professor Rachel Godsil, co-hosting and moderating Mind Sciences and Legal Northwestern Law School.

Professor Rachel Godsil, Affirmative Action: Past, Present, and Future at the Kellogg Foundation's Racial Healing Conference, Asheville, NC.

Professor Rachel Godsil, Judicial Bias, D.C. Association of Administrative Law Judiciary’s, Washington.

Professor Rachel D. Godsil, Stereotype Threat and Racialized Obstacles to Success in Law, American Law School: Salt Sponsored JD Pipeline Conference.

Professor Rachel D. Godsil, Implicit Bias, Identity Anxiety, and Structural Racialization: Subtexts in the Everyday and the 2012 Election, American Values Institute and Haas Diversity Research Center, Boalt Hall.

Professor Rachel D. Godsil, Race Talk Series, Open Society Institute at the Baltimore Public Library.

Professor Rachel D. Godsil, moderating a panel on Diverse Charter Schools at An Emerging Model for Advancing the Legacy of Mendez and Brown, Georgetown.

Professor Rachel D. Godsil, Overcoming Racial Polarization: Racial Anxiety and the Empathy Gap, WK Kellogg Foundation Racial Healing Conference, New Orleans.

Professor Rachel D. Godsil, Post-Zoning Land Use Practices, at Brooklyn Law School's Trager Symposium.

Professor Rachel D. Godsil, at The LSAT, Diversity, and New York Pipeline Best Practices for the Skadden, Arps Honors Program in Legal Studies Symposium.

Prof. Paula A. Franzese and Prof. Rachel D. Godsil present at Fordham Urban Law Journal's Symposium, Taking New York: The Challenges, Opportunities, and Dangers Posed by Eminent Domain Use in New York.

Professor Rachel D. Godsil, Post-Zoning Land Use Practices, at Brooklyn Law School's Trager Symposium.

Prof. Solangel Maldonado and Prof. Rachel D. Godsil, Opening Doors: Making Diversity Matter in Law School Admissions, Diversity Council & SALT, Pipeline Conference, St. John's Law School.

Prof. Rachel D. Godsil, Invisible Men, Invisible Boys, at Open Society Foundation’s Campaign For Black Male Achievement.

Professor Rachel D. Godsil, The Role of the Social Psychology of Race in Law Reform: Implicit Bias, Stereotype Threat, and Racial Dehumanization, ACLU Legal Staff.

Professor Rachel D. Godsil, moderating a panel on Diverse Charter Schools: Can Racial and Socioeconomic Integration Promote Better Outcomes for Students?, Georgetown University Law Center.

Professor Rachel D. Godsil, Career Development of Attorneys for Law Firms, co-sponsored by Pace University’s Dyson College of Arts and Sciences and Threshold Advisors, LLC.

Professor Rachel D. Godsil, Race and Racism in the Legal Profession, Cardozo Law School.

Professor Rachel D. Godsil, Implicit Bias in the Courtroom at the UCLA Program on Understanding Law, Science, and Evidence, Mar. 3rd-4th.

Professor Paula Franzese and Professor Rachel Godsil present at Fordham Urban Law Journal's Symposium, Taking New York: The Challenges, Opportunities, and Dangers Posed by Eminent Domain Use in New York, Feb. 11th.

Professor Rachel Godsil, participant, Tax and Race Workshop at Emory Law School.

Professor Rachel Godsil, The Lion Made a Monkey Out of Me: Taking Implicit Bias by the Tail at a conference at Ohio State's Kirwan Center's on Transforming Race: Crisis and Opportunity in the Age of Obama.

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Rachel D. Godsil

Eleanor Bontecou Professor of Law

Rachel D. Godsil is the Eleanor Bontecou Professor of Law at Seton Hall University School of Law.
Professor Godsil’s teaching and research interests include property, land use, environmental justice, education, and race.  Her recent property work focuses on the mortgage crisis and eminent domain as well as the intersection of race, poverty, and land use decisions.  After serving as the convener for the Obama campaign’s Urban and Metropolitan Policy Committee and an advisor to the Department of Housing and Urban Development transition team, Professor Godsil co-directed a report to HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan entitled “Retooling HUD for a Catalytic  Federal Government.”
Professor Godsil is a co-founder and research director for a national consortium of social scientists and law professors focusing on the role of implicit bias in law and policy.  She is currently working on the link between stereotype threat and the success of students of color in law.  Professor Godsil also wrote an amicus brief on behalf of the National Parent Teacher Association in the Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District litigation at the Supreme Court.  She is the co-editor of AWAKENING FROM THE DREAM:  CIVIL RIGHTS UNDER SIEGE AND THE NEWSTRUGGLE FOR EQUAL JUSTICE (Carolina Academic Press, 2005).
During law school, Professor Godsil served as the Executive Article Editor of the Michigan Law Review, was awarded the Henry M. Bates Memorial Award, and elected to the Order of the Coif. After graduation, she clerked for John M. Walker of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.  Professor Godsil was an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.  She was an Associate Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, focusing on environmental justice, as well as an associate with Berle, Kass & Case and Arnold & Porter in New York City.
She joined Seton Hall University School of Law in 2000 and has been recognized for her teaching by being nominated for Professor of the Year in 2002 and 2003.  In 2003-2004, she was awarded the Researcher of the Year in Law by Seton Hall University.  During fall of 2007, Professor Godsil was a Visiting Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and she taught property at New York University Law School in spring 2009.

PUBLICATIONS

LAW REVIEW ARTICLES


Preserving Autonomy in the Face of Gentrification, Brooklyn L. Review Symposium (forthcoming 2012)

A Multiciplity of Interests, Columbia Journal of Race and Law (2012)

Implicit Bias in the Courtroom, 59 U.C.L.A. L. Rev. 1184 (2012) (co-authored with Jerry Kang et al)

Protecting Status: The Mortgage Crisis, Eminent Domain, and the Ethic of Homeownership, Fordham L. Rev. (2008) (David V. Simunovich)

Race-Nuisance: The Politics of Law in the Jim Crow Era, 105 Mich. L. Rev. 505 (2006)

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)

The Question of Risk: Incorporating Community Perceptions into Environmental Risk Assessments, 21 Fordham Urban L.J. 547 (1994) (with James Freeman)

Jobs, Trees, and Autonomy: The Convergence of the Environmental Justice Movement and Community Economic Development, 5 U. Md. J. Contemp. Legal Issues 25 (1993-94) (with James Freeman)

Note, Remedying Environmental Racism, 90 Mich. L. Rev. 394 (1991)

OTHER PUBLICATIONS


A View from the Gallery: Oral Argument in Fisher v. UT Austin, 21 Poverty & Race (November-December 2012)

Implicit Bias Insights as Preconditions to Structural Change, Poverty & Race (2011) (co-authored with John Powell)

Retooling HUD for a Catalytic Federal Government: A Report to Shaun Donovan (co-Project Director), Penn Institute for Urban Research (2009)

BOOKS AND BOOK CHAPTERS


Awakening from the Dream: Civil Rights Under Siege and the New Struggle for Equal Justice, Carolina Academic Press (2005)

A Tale of Two Neighborhoods: Implicit Bias in Environmental Decision-Making, in Implicit Racial Bias in the Law (Cambridge University Press 2011)

BOOK REVIEWS


Stuart Banner, How the Indians Lost Their Land: Law and Power on the Frontier, 27, pp 462-464, Cambridge: Harvard University Press (2009)

Michael J. Klarman 'From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality' Law and History Review, 25, pp 667-640, Cambridge U. Press (2007)