Biography:
A.B., Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School
J.D., New York University School of Law
Professor Gouldin joins the Syracuse University College of Law from New York University School of Law, where she served as the Assistant Director of the Center for Research in Crime and Justice. She teaches and writes in the fields of constitutional criminal procedure (focusing on investigative detention and intelligence-gathering), criminal law, and evidence.
Professor Gouldin graduated from Princeton University with a major in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. She received her JD, magna cum laude, from New York University School of Law where she was elected to the Order of the Coif, awarded the Ann Petluck Poses Memorial Prize, and served as the Executive Articles Editor of the Annual Survey of American Law. Following law school, Professor Gouldin clerked for Judge Leonard B. Sand in the Southern District of New York and for Judge Chester J. Straub of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She also spent several years as a litigation associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz , working on matters involving white collar and regulatory defense, internal investigations and compliance, and securities litigation.
Publications:
When Deference is Dangerous: The Judicial Role in Material Witness Detentions, 49 Am. Crim. L. Rev. __ (2012) (forthcoming).
Cosa Nostra: The Final Chapter?, 25 Crime & J. 129 (1999) (with James B. Jacobs).
Cannabis, Compassionate Use and the Commerce Clause: Why Developments in California May Limit the Constitutional Reach of the Federal Drug Laws, 1999 Ann. Surv. Am. L. 471 (1999).