Six Faculty Members Honored with New Titles
Six Brooklyn Law School faculty members received new titles effective July 1, including (clockwise from top left): Professors Cynthia Godsoe, Richard Winchester, Anna Roberts, Ryan Williams, Christina Mulligan, and Yuvraj Joshi.
President and Joseph Crea Dean David D. Meyer announced that—effective July 1—the achievements of six standout members of the Brooklyn Law School faulty will be recognized with new titles that reflect their outstanding work in the classroom and as legal scholars.
“These appointments recognize exceptional scholarly productivity and impact, teaching excellence, and leadership and service within Brooklyn Law School and in the larger academy,” Meyer said.
New Professorships
The Rose L. Hoffer Professorship will be held by Professor Cynthia Godsoe, whose election earlier this month to membership in the American Law Institute recognizes her stature as one of the country’s leading scholars of family law and criminal justice.
Godsoe has published more than two dozen articles and chapters in leading law journals, including the Boston University Law Review, Michigan Law Review, UCLA Law Review, Tulane Law Review, and California Law Review Online, and has been invited to present her work at dozens of symposia and workshops, including at the University of Chicago, University of Virginia, Columbia, Georgetown, and UC-Irvine. She has also served as Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Scholarship since 2025.
The Ruth Bader Ginsburg Professorship will be held by Professor Yuvraj Joshi, who has built a national reputation as a prolific and creative scholar of constitutional law and civil rights.
In the past three years alone, Joshi has published seven articles in the California Law Review, Columbia Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, UCLA Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review, and Southern California Law Review. Several papers have earned him prominent honors from peers, including honorable mention for the 2021 AALS Prize in Comparative Law, the 2023 Canadian Association of Law Teachers Scholarly Paper Award, and the 2025 Law and Society Association Article Prize.
The Suzanne J. and Norman Miles Professorship will be held by Professor Anna Roberts, whose innovative scholarship focuses on criminal procedure and evidence, with particular attention to the trial process and the role that language and stereotypes play in the pursuit of justice.
Roberts has published more than two dozen articles and chapters in the Boston University Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, Indiana Law Journal, and other prominent reviews, and she has been invited to present her research in legislative testimony and at prominent academic venues including the University of Georgia, University of Washington, and Vanderbilt law schools.
New Centennial Chair
The Centennial Professor of Law chair will be held by Professor Ryan Williams, who joined the BLS faculty from Boston College Law School last year.
Williams is a leading scholar of constitutional law, federal courts, and civil procedure, with a focus on the original meanings of the Fifth, Ninth, and Fourteenth Amendments and the interplay of constitutional principles and the civil litigation system. His work has appeared in leading journals, including the Duke Law Journal, Columbia Law Review, Harvard Law Review, Stanford Law Review, Virginia Law Review, and Yale Law Journal.
Two Named as Dean’s Research Scholars
Professor Christina Mulligan will serve as a Dean’s Research Scholar, a special form of faculty recognition that carries a three-year term.
Mulligan is a widely respected scholar of constitutional law, intellectual property, and internet and technology law. Her scholarship appears in the Boston University Law Review, Notre Dame Law Review, Indiana Law Journal, and Georgia Law Review, among other journals, and she has been invited to present her work at numerous workshops and symposia at prominent venues including the University of Cambridge, Harvard, Yale, Georgetown, and UCLA law schools. A former Vice Dean, Mulligan has been a visiting scholar at Georgetown Law Center and a visiting professor (three times) at Yale Law School.
Professor Richard Winchester will also serve as a Dean’s Research Scholar. A leading authority on small business and federal employment tax policy, Winchester joined Brooklyn Law School in January 2025 from Seton Hall University School of Law.
He has published articles in numerous general and tax-specialty journals, including Tax Notes, Pittsburgh Tax Review, Kentucky Law Journal, and Stanford Law & Policy Review, and he has presented his research at dozens of colloquia and conferences, including at Columbia, NYU, Stanford, and the University of Wisconsin. A former Fulbright Scholar, he is also an Elected Fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel.