ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF LAW
RUTGERS SCHOOL OF LAW – NEWARK

Taja-Nia Henderson received her A.B. from Dartmouth College, and her J.D., M.A., and Ph.D. from New York University. At NYU School of Law, 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 in slavery, punishment, and property. Since 2010, Professor Henderson has organized and facilitated the Rutgers Reentry Roundtable, and she is a member of the steering committee for Newark Reentry Legal Services (ReLeSe). She has served on the City Bar Association’s Civil Rights Committee and the Committee for the Advancement of Minorities in the Profession. In 2013, the Rutgers–Newark Student Bar Association awarded Professor Henderson with the law school’s “Professor of the Year” award.