Professor Godsoe joins the faculty the Fall semester 2007 from the Children’s Law Center in New York City, where she was an appellate attorney. She also taught legal writing at Fordham University School of Law. Previously, she held staff attorney positions with several nonprofit legal organizations dedicated to children’s rights, including Advocates for Children of New York, the Legal Aid Society’s Juvenile Rights division in New York City and Brooklyn, and the Child Care Law center in San Francisco. After law school, she was a Skadden public interest fellow, and she clerked for Judge Edward Korman in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. She has written on education, child welfare issues and juvenile justice issues.
Chronology
The Legal Status of Pregnant and Parenting Youth in Foster Care (with Eve Stotland), 17 U. Fla. J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 1 (2006)
Subsidized Guardianship: A New Permanancy Option, 23 Children's Rights Law Journal 5 (2003)
Caught Between Two Systems: How Exceptional Children in Out-of-Home Care are Denied Equality in Education, 19 Yale L. & Pol'y Rev. 81 (2001)
Child Care for Working Families (with Sujatha Jagadeesh Branch, Roslyn Powell, Cary LaCheen, and Rebecca Scharf), Clearinghouse Review (2001)
Lack of adequate child care and its high cost often force working parents leaving welfare...