Joanne Gottesman

Joanne Gottesman directs the Immigrant Justice Clinic in Camden, a student-led law office that represents clients in immigration matters. She practiced housing and immigration law at the Legal Aid Society in New York and her areas of expertise include child migration, U.S. immigration policy, and poverty law. Before attending law school she lived and worked in China for three years.

Prior to joining the Rutgers faculty in 2002, Professor Gottesman worked as a Kirkland & Ellis Public Service Fellow in the immigration unit of the Legal Aid Society of New York. For her fellowship project, Professor Gottesman provided information and representation to immigrants in deportation proceedings as a result of youthful offender adjudications or first offenses, and to immigrant children in foster care. After her fellowship, she remained at the Legal Aid Society, practicing in the housing and immigration law fields. She later served as a law clerk to U.S. District Court Judge Edmund V. Ludwig in Philadelphia.

Professor Gottesman graduated from Wesleyan University. She received her J.D. from Columbia Law School, where she was a James Kent Scholar.