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Taja-Nia Y. Henderson
Assistant Professor of Law
Professor Henderson received her A.B. from Dartmouth College, her M.A. from New York University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, where she was a MacCracken Fellowship recipient, and her J.D. from New York University School of Law, where 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. After graduating law school, 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.
Before joining the Rutgers faculty in 2010, Professor Henderson was an associate in the litigation practice group of Arnold & Porter LLP in New York, where she focused her practice on complex commercial litigation and pro bono civil rights advocacy. Her teaching and research interests are social control organizations, mass incarceration and prisoner reentry, law and society, and land use/property. Since 2010, Professor Henderson has organized and facilitated the Rutgers Reentry Roundtable. She is also a member of the steering committees for Newark Reentry Legal Services (ReLeSe) and the Evidence Based Institute housed at the Rutgers School of Criminal Justice. Professor Henderson is also a member of the board of directors of Practicing Attorneys for Law Students Program, Inc. (PALS), and a former member of the New York City Bar Association’s Task Force on Employment Opportunities for the Previously Incarcerated, Civil Rights Committee, and Committee for the Advancement of Minorities in the Profession.