Criminal Law & Procedure examines laws that prohibit actions that threaten and harm public safety and welfare, punishment for engaging in these prohibited acts, and the process through which these laws are enforced.
Zohra Ahmed
Zohra Ahmed writes and teaches about the US carceral state and US militarism. She examines how law and political economy shape the distribution of state violence, and studies the social movements that have risen up to challenge criminalization and militarization. Her scholarship has been published or is forthcoming in the Columbia Law Review, UCLA Law […]
Emmanuel Hiram Arnaud
Emmanuel Hiram Arnaud is an Associate Professor of Law. His research focuses on the application of the federal constitution, criminal law and procedure in the territories of the United States, issues of criminal procedure broadly, and race and the law. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Columbia Law Review, Iowa Law Review, […]
Shira M. Diner
Shira Diner is a Lecturer and Clinical Instructor in the Defender Clinic at Boston University School of Law. Prior to her work at BU, she was the Director of Associate Development and Recruitment at Todd & Weld LLP. Previously, she served as a public defender with the Committee for Public Counsel Services (CPCS) for 17 […]
Caitlin Glass
Caitlin Glass writes about criminal law and procedure, race and the law, participatory methods, and movement law. Among other things, her recent work explores legal, theoretical, and moral critiques of imputed liability doctrines such as felony murder and accomplice liability. Her scholarship has been published or is forthcoming in the Minnesota Law Review, the Northwestern University Law Review and […]
Jack Godleski
John “Jack” Godleski is a part-time lecturer for Boston University School of Law’s Compassionate Release Practicum. Mr. Godleski is currently a solo practitioner with offices in Greenfield, MA. He earned a JD from the Western New England School of Law in 2013 and has been practicing criminal law for over ten years. His law practice […]
Jasmine Gonzales Rose
Professor Jasmine Gonzales Rose is a leading critical evidence scholar whose research examines how race, racism, and antiracism are utilized and considered as sources of proof in litigation, as well as how juror language disenfranchisement systematically limits who can serve as factfinders. Rooted in critical race studies and drawing on epistemology, Professor Gonzales Rose employs […]
Wendy Kaplan
Wendy Kaplan joined the Criminal Trial Practice Clinic at Boston University School of Law, following her work as a trial attorney in the Massachusetts public defender office. She became a clinical professor in 2017. Her primary clinical work involves the education, training and case supervision of third-year law students who represent defendants in criminal and delinquency […]
Sean J. Kealy
Sean Kealy graduated from Temple Law School in 1994. He was an assistant attorney general from 1995-1999 where he worked on victim compensation claims and prosecuted insurance fraud. From 1999-2007 he worked as legal advisor to State Senator Cynthia Stone Creem (D-Newton) and counsel to the General Court’s Joint Committee on Criminal Justice and the […]
Steven Arrigg Koh
Steven Arrigg Koh teaches and writes in criminal law, constitutional law, and international law. His interdisciplinary scholarship bridges theory and practice, drawing on sociological frameworks to deepen institutionally grounded analyses of U.S. federal and international legal systems. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in New York University Law Review, Duke Law Journal Online, Cornell Law Review, Washington University Law […]
Gerald F. Leonard
Gerald Leonard is a leading historian of American constitutionalism. He is the author of two books that helped launch and extend the “constitutional politics,” or “popular constitutionalism,” approach to American constitutional history: The Partisan Republic: Democracy, Exclusion, and the Fall of the Founders’ Constitution, 1780s-1830s (Cambridge University Press, 2019) (with Saul Cornell), and The Invention of Party […]