UVA TODAY — Risa Goluboff, dean of the University of Virginia School of Law, testified Thursday at Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court. Speaking as an expert on constitutional law and in her personal capacity, Goluboff told the Senate Judiciary Committee that the Supreme Court and the nation “will benefit enormously from the keen intelligence, impeccable integrity, broad experience and intellectual open-mindedness of a Justice Jackson.” Pointing to the more than 500 cases Jackson decided as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Goluboff noted her decisions placed her “in the mainstream of the American judicial tradition.” “What remains constant across these hundreds of opinions is Judge Jackson’s commitment to applying precedents to the facts before her, maintaining procedural consistency, reasoning with common sense and humanity, and doing justice for the parties consistent with the rule of law,” Goluboff said.  Goluboff has known Jackson personally and professionally since 1998; Goluboff’s husband, UVA Law professor Richard Schragger, served on the Harvard Law Review with Jackson and they have remained friends.