Taja-Nia Y. Henderson

Biography

Professor Henderson joins Brooklyn Law School this fall from Rutgers School of Law-Newark, where her teaching and research interests focus on slavery, incarceration, offender reentry, law and society, and land use/property. Her work has appeared in N.Y.U. Law Review, Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties (forthcoming), Lewis & Clark L. Rev., Columbia J. of Race & Law, the Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class, and the Law & History Review.

In 2013, Professor Henderson was awarded “Professor of the Year” by the Rutgers–Newark Student Bar Association. That same year, she was a fellow at the J. Willard Hurst Summer Institute in Legal History at the University of Wisconsin. At Rutgers, she has organized and facilitated the Rutgers Reentry Roundtable, and was a member of the steering committee for Newark Reentry Legal Services (ReLeSe). She was also a member of the board of directors of Practicing Attorneys for Law Students Program, Inc. (PALS).

Prior to teaching, Professor Henderson served as the Derrick Bell Teaching Fellow in constitutional law at NYU School of Law and also clerked for the Hon. Consuelo B. Marshall, U.S. District Court, Central District of California. She also served as an associate in the litigation group of Arnold & Porter LLP in New York, where her practice included complex commercial litigation and pro bono civil rights advocacy.

Professor Henderson received her J.D., M.A., and Ph.D. from New York University, and her A.B. from Dartmouth College. At NYU School of Law, she was a Dean’s Scholar, Senior Notes Editor of the N.Y.U. Law Review, and recipient of the Gary E. Moncrieffe Graduation Award.