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 is particularly interested in the interactions between law and political economy and law and social movements in these two domains. She started her legal career as public defender at the Legal Aid Society in New York City. While working in criminal […]
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 […]
Ira Gant
Ira Gant teaches the Wrongful Convictions Practicum. He is also the Forensic Services Director at the Committee for Public Counsel Services, Massachusetts’ public defender agency. He litigates cases and provides litigation support, training, and amicus support to attorneys handling criminal, juvenile, mental health commitment, and care and protection cases. He is appointed to the state […]
Caitlin Glass
Caitlin Glass joins BU Law in January 2024 to direct the Antiracism and Community Lawyering Practicum in collaboration with the Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality, where she is a Non-Resident Fellow. The practicum trains students in the traditions of community and movement lawyering, and provides them with real-world opportunities to support social […]
Jasmine Gonzales Rose
Professor Jasmine Gonzales Rose is a critical proceduralist and is particularly interested in the intersections of race and language within two areas: juries and evidence. She is a leading criticalist voice on evidence law, with a focus on the evidentiary issues raised by racialized police violence. She is also an expert on juror language disenfranchisement. […]
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 Courts Joint Committee on Criminal Justice and the […]
Steven Arrigg Koh
Steven Arrigg Koh teaches and writes in the areas of criminal law and international law. His scholarship—which explores the foreign relations, cultural, and racial dimensions of US domestic, transnational, and international criminal justice—has appeared or is forthcoming in journals such as New York University Law Review, Duke Law Journal Online, Cornell Law Review, Washington University […]
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 […]
Ngozi Okidegbe
Ngozi Okidegbe is a Moorman-Simon Interdisciplinary Career Development Associate Professor of Law and Assistant Professor of Computing & Data Sciences. Her focus is in the areas of law and technology, evidence, criminal procedure, and racial justice. Her work examines how the use of predictive technologies in the criminal justice system impacts racially marginalized communities. Professor Okidegbe is […]