Profile

Anne Goldstein came to New York Law School from the University of Connecticut School of Law, where she taught in both the clinical and first-year lawyering process programs and was Director of Lawyering Process for two years. As Director of NYLS’s First-Year Legal Skills Program, Professor Goldstein designed curriculum and trained faculty to teach the skills course, which aims to deepen students’ mastery of legal analysis and introduce them to the application of their analytical and communication skills in legal writing, oral advocacy, interviewing, and counseling. Professor Goldstein’s teaching emphasizes pro bono legal service; she received the Connecticut Bar Association’s 2007 Pro Bono Award and the University of Connecticut Public Interest Law Group’s first annual Cornelius J. Scanlon Award for her work “encouraging the practice of public interest law.”

Prior to academia, Professor Goldstein was a member of Livingston, Adler, Pulda, Meiklejohn & Kelly PC, in Hartford, Connecticut, where she represented individual employees and unions in employment and labor matters. She also was a law clerk to the Honorable Ellen A. Peters, Connecticut Supreme Court.

Professor Goldstein is a founding member of the board of directors for the nonprofit literary publisher Paris Press, was a member of the Connecticut Bar Association’s Pro Bono Committee, and was President of the Board of the West Hartford Public Library Foundation.