Cynthia Godsoe

Brooklyn Law School

Professor of Law

250 Joralemon Street

Brooklyn, NY 11201

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

22

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Scholarly Papers (22)

1.

Participatory Defense: Humanizing the Accused and Ceding Control to the Client

Mercer Law Review Vol. 69, p. 715, 2018, Brooklyn Law School, Legal Studies Paper No. 571
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 17 Oct 2018
Cynthia Godsoe
Brooklyn Law School
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Public defender, participatory defense, professional responsibility, client autonomy, zealous advocacy, overcriminalization, attorney-client relationship, McCoy v. Louisiana, expertise, Model Rules of Professional Responsibility, legal ethics

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Redefining Parental Rights: The Case of Corporal Punishment

Brooklyn Law School, Legal Studies Paper No. 575
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 02 Nov 2018
Cynthia Godsoe
Brooklyn Law School
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parental rights, family law, constitution, corporal punishment, Meyer v Nebraska, parental discipline privilege

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Adopting the Gay Family

Tulane Law Review, Vol. 90, p. 311, 2015, Brooklyn Law School, Legal Studies Paper No. 440
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 30 Jan 2016
Cynthia Godsoe
Brooklyn Law School
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Obergefell, same-sex marriage, adoption, social change, parenthood, lesbian and gay families

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Parsing Parenthood

__ Lewis & Clark L. Rev. __ (Forthcoming), Brooklyn Law School, Legal Studies Paper No. 253
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 02 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 03 Aug 2012
Cynthia Godsoe
Brooklyn Law School
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parenthood, parent and child, child abuse and neglect, family, adoption, foster care, prevention, ASFA, child welfare, subsidized guardianship, parental rights

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#MeToo and the Myth of the Juvenile Sex Offender

Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, Vol. 17, p. 355, 2020, Brooklyn Law School, Legal Studies Paper No. 643
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 30 Jul 2020
Cynthia Godsoe
Brooklyn Law School
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#MeToo, sex offenses, abolition, sexual assault, juveniles, gender, race, statutory rape, sex offender registry, social control, carceral feminism, public health, restorative justice

6.

Prosecutorial Mutiny

American Criminal Law Review, Vol. 60, pg. 1403, 2023, Brooklyn Law School, Legal Studies Paper No. 744
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 30 Jun 2023 Last Revised: 26 Apr 2024
Cynthia Godsoe and Maybell Romero
Brooklyn Law School and Tulane University - Law School
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ethics, democracy, progressive prosecutors, model rules of professional conduct

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Contempt, Status, and the Criminalization of Non-Conforming Girls

Cardozo Law Review, Vol. 34, p. 1091, 2014, Brooklyn Law School, Legal Studies Paper No. 380
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 06 Jun 2014
Cynthia Godsoe
Brooklyn Law School
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juveniles, status offenses, gender roles, sexuality, punishment, social control, adolescents

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Adolescents in Society: Their Evolving Legal Status

Journal of Law and Policy, Vol. 20, 2012, Brooklyn Law School, Legal Studies Paper No. 262
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 06 Mar 2012
Cynthia Godsoe
Brooklyn Law School
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Adolescent, child, juvenile justice, consent

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Punishment as Protection

Houston Law Review, Forthcoming, Brooklyn Law School, Legal Studies Paper No. 421
Number of pages: 73 Posted: 12 Sep 2015
Cynthia Godsoe
Brooklyn Law School
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prostitution, trafficking, paternalism, punishment, statutory rape, sexuality, gender roles, social control, retribution, deterrence, juvenile justice

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All in the Family: Towards a New Representational Model for Parents and Children

Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, Forthcoming, Brooklyn Law School, Legal Studies Paper No. 214
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 01 Dec 2010
Cynthia Godsoe
Brooklyn Law School
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education, parent and child, professional responsibility, ethics, family representation

11.

The Victim/Offender Overlap and Criminal System Reform

Brooklyn Law Review , Vol. 87, pg. 1319, 2023, Brooklyn Law School, Legal Studies Paper No. 743
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 30 Jun 2023
Cynthia Godsoe
Brooklyn Law School
Downloads 148 (391,626)
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victim, offender, victim/offender overlap, abolition, violence, punishment theory

12.

Perfect Plaintiffs

Yale Law Journal Forum, Vol. 125, p. 136, 2015, Brooklyn Law School, Legal Studies Paper No. 425
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 04 Nov 2015
Cynthia Godsoe
Brooklyn Law School
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Obergefell, same-sex marriage, plaintiff selection, cause lawyering, impact litigation, lesbian and gay families, social change

13.

Recasting Vagueness: The Case of Teen Sex Statutes

Washington and Lee Law Review, Vol. 74, pg. 173, 2017, Brooklyn Law School, Legal Studies Paper No. 512
Number of pages: 113 Posted: 10 May 2017 Last Revised: 14 Jul 2017
Cynthia Godsoe
Brooklyn Law School
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Vagueness Doctrine, Adolescent Sexuality, Selective Enforcement, Gender and Sexuality, Juvenile Justice, Statutory Rape, Overcriminalization, Consent

14.

Marriage Equality and the 'New' Maternalism

California Law Review Circuit, Vol. 6, p. 145, 2015, Brooklyn Law School, Legal Studies Paper No. 426
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 27 Nov 2015
Cynthia Godsoe
Brooklyn Law School
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Obergefell, same-sex marriage, gender roles, motherhood, parenthood, maternalism, lesbian and gay families, Gonzales v. Carhart

15.

Permanency Puzzle

Michigan State Law Review, Vol. 2013, p. 1113, Brooklyn Law School, Legal Studies Paper No. 383
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 03 Jul 2014
Cynthia Godsoe
Brooklyn Law School
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child protection, permanency, adoption, guardianship, ASFA, foster care

16.

Can You Be a Legal Ethics Scholar and Have Guts?

Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, Vol. 35, No. 3, 2022, Brooklyn Law School, Legal Studies Paper No. 745
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 30 Jun 2023
Cynthia Godsoe, Abbe Smith and Ellen Yaroshefsky
Brooklyn Law School, Georgetown University Law Center and Hofstra University - Maurice A. Deane School of Law
Downloads 95 (544,752)
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ethics, model rules of professional conduct, lawyer discipline, prosecutorial misconduct, legal education

17.

Just Intervention: Differential Response in Child Protection

21 J.L. & Pol'y 73 (2012), Brooklyn Law School, Legal Studies Paper No. 325
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 22 Feb 2013
Cynthia Godsoe
Brooklyn Law School
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child abuse and neglect, family, foster care, prevention, differential response, public health, child welfare, procedural justice, institutional design, child protection

18.

Divest, Invest, & Mutual Aid

Columbia Journal of Race and Law, Vol. 12, pg. 601, 2022, Brooklyn Law School, Legal Studies Paper No. 721
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 06 Oct 2022
Cynthia Godsoe and Caitlyn Garcia
Brooklyn Law School and Brooklyn Defender Services
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family policing system, mutual aid, abolition, child welfare

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Disrupting Carceral Logic in Family Policing

Michigan Law Review, Vol. 121, pg. 939, 2023, Brooklyn Law School, Legal Studies Paper No. 750
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 03 Oct 2023 Last Revised: 04 Oct 2023
Cynthia Godsoe
Brooklyn Law School
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family policing, child welfare, lawyers, carceral logic, abolitionism

20.

Redrawing the Boundaries of Relational Crime

Alabama Law Review, Vol. 69, p. 169, 2017, Brooklyn Law School, Legal Studies Paper No. 543
Number of pages: 77 Posted: 04 Dec 2017
Cynthia Godsoe
Brooklyn Law School
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family crime, incest, corporal punishment, sexual harm, exploitation, parenthood, family equality, consent

21.

The Place of the Prosecutor in Abolitionist Praxis

UCLA Law Review, Vol. 69, p.164, (2022), Brooklyn Law School, Legal Studies Paper No. 675
Number of pages: 76 Posted: 04 Jun 2021 Last Revised: 28 Mar 2023
Cynthia Godsoe
Brooklyn Law School
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abolition, Carceral state, progressive prosecutor, legal ethics, net-widening, social change

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Parental Love and Purposeful Violence

Brooklyn Law School, Legal Studies Paper No. 603
Posted: 19 Mar 2019
Cynthia Godsoe
Brooklyn Law School

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parental rights, family law, constitution, corporal punishment, parental discipline privilege, abuse and neglect, intrafamilial violence, cycle of abuse, mens rea