Jessica Rofé
Director of the Constitutional Rights Clinic, and Assistant Professor of Law
Biography
Jessica Rofé is Assistant Professor of Law and Director of the Constitutional Rights Clinic at Rutgers Law School. Her litigation, research, and teaching focus on the intersection of criminal and immigration law, deportation, detention, and the rights of individuals incarcerated across systems. Jessica’s recent article, titled Peripheral Detention, Transfer, and Access to the Courts (2024), was published in the Michigan Law Review.
Prior to joining Rutgers Law School, Jessica was Deputy Director and Supervising Attorney at the NYU School of Law Immigrant Rights Clinic, where she and students represented immigrants and community organizations in litigation at the agency, federal court, and Supreme Court level, and supported immigrant rights campaigns locally and nationally. Jessica was also an Immigrant Justice Corps Fellow at Brooklyn Defender Services (2014-2016) and an associate at Cleary Gottlieb in the firm’s Latin America practice (2016-2017).
Jessica received her J.D. from NYU School of Law, where she was an Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Fellow.
Prior to her law career, Jessica taught high school social studies in New York City public schools and received a master’s in teaching from Fordham University.