Biography

In addition to teaching Professional Responsibility, Professor Gottesman co-directs the Civil Practice Clinic, a student staffed law office that represents low income Camden residents in a range of legal matters. Her research interests focus on the intersection between immigration and criminal law. With the support of the Defending Immigrants Partnership (DIP), she has written "The Immigration Consequences of Selected New Jersey Criminal Offenses," a practice guide for criminal defense attorneys who represent noncitizens in New Jersey, to help them determine the immigration consequences of potential pleas.

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 is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Wesleyan University. She received her J.D. from Columbia Law School, where she was a James Kent Scholar. Before attending law school, Professor Gottesman spent three years working and studying in China.