Cynthia Godsoe
Contributor
Cynthia Godsoe is a Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, Dean’s Research Scholar, and the current Associate Dean for Research and Scholarship. She writes about and teaches courses in family law, criminal law, children and the law, legal profession, and sex crimes. Her recent and forthcoming work appears in the UCLA Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Boston University Law Review, and California Law Review Circuit, among other places. Godsoe graduated from Harvard College, magna cum laude with distinction, and Harvard Law School, cum laude. Following law school, Godsoe clerked for Judge Edward Korman in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York and was a Skadden Public Interest Fellow. Before joining the Brooklyn Law School faculty, she represented children and youth in impact litigation and individual cases in juvenile justice, education, and family law matters as an attorney at the Legal Aid Society’s Juvenile Rights Division and at Advocates for Children. She is a Reporter of the ABA Criminal Justice Section Standards on Victims, former chair of the AALS sections on Criminal Law and on Juvenile and Family Law, has trained both prosecutors and public defenders on juvenile justice issues, and participates in pro bono work on a variety of family law and criminal law issues.
