Caitlin Glass

Caitlin Glass

Lecturer and Clinical Instructor


Biography

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 the Fordham Urban Law Journal. She is a Non-Resident Fellow at the Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality.

At BU Law, Professor Glass directs the Racial Justice and Movement Lawyering Clinic, which provides legal support to organizations, coalitions, and grassroots groups seeking to challenge forms of subordination and build community power. Through the Clinic and in her individual capacity, Glass regularly collaborates with organizers who are contesting criminalization and exploitation.

Before joining the law school, Professor Glass was the Policy Program Director at the BU Center for Antiracist Research. Her previous roles included Staff Attorney at the Office of the Appellate Defender, Assistant Director of the NYU Law Clemency Resource Center, Marvin M. Karpatkin Fellow with the ACLU’s Racial Justice Program, and law clerk for Judge Ann M. Donnelly in the Eastern District of New York. She received her law degree from NYU School of Law, where she was on the Review of Law and Social Change and participated in the Racial Justice Clinic and the Equal Justice and Capital Defender Clinic. She received her undergraduate degree in Public Policy with honors from the University of Chicago.

Publications

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  • Perry Moriearty, Kat Albrecht & Caitlin Glass, Race, Racial Bias, and Imputed Liability Murder 51 Fordham Urban Law Journal (2024)
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  • Caitlin Glass, Kat Albrecht & Perry Moriearty, Prosecutorial Data Transparency and Data Justice 119 Northwestern University Law Review (2024)
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  • Neda Khoshkhoo, Aviva Geiger Schwarz, Luisa Godinez Puig, Caitlin Glass, Geoffrey S. Holtzman, Elaine O. Nsoesie & Jasmine Gonzales Rose, Toward Evidence-Based Antiracist Policymaking: Problems and Proposals for Better Racial Data Collection and Reporting (2022)
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  • Jasmine Gonzales Rose, Caitlin Glass & Neda Khoshkhoo, Unraveling the Web of Legal Protection: Race, Police Misconduct, and the Favorable Termination Rule 36 Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy Online Supplement (2022)
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  • Brief of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research as Amicus Curiae in Support of Petitioner in Larry Thompson v. Police Officer Pagiel Clark, Shield #28472; Police Officer Paul Montefusco, Shield #10580; Police Officer Phillip Romano, Shield #6295; Police Officer Gerard Bouwmans, Shield #2102, Respondents
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Courses

LAW JD 948

Racial Justice & Movement Lawyering Clinic: Fieldwork

3 credits

THIS CLASS IS RESTRICTED to students who have formally applied to and been accepted to the Racial Justice & Movement Lawyering Clinic. The Clinic offers students the opportunity to provide legal support to organizations, coalitions, and grassroots groups seeking to challenge forms of subordination and build community power. Clinic fieldwork will vary based on the goals of our clients and movement partners but may involve litigation, policy advocacy, legal research, public education, or infrastructure/capacity-building projects. Under the clinic director’s supervision, students act as the lead attorneys on these projects, meaning that students will be responsible for establishing relationships with partners, identifying project goals, drafting agreements, and executing projects. In this process, students will learn to, among other things: develop litigation and non-litigation strategies; critically analyze the role of lawyers in social movements; identify different theories of social change; engage in legal writing that is persuasive and well-supported by evidence; and communicate complex legal subjects to a range of audiences. Students will also develop their professional identities and explore how they can most effectively show up for clients and community partners given their particular set of skills and experiences. CO-REQUISITE: LAW JD 949 (Clinic Seminar). NOTE: Both the fieldwork and in-class seminar count towards the 6 credit Experiential Learning requirement. GRADING NOTICE: This clinic does not offer the CR/NC/H option.


FALL 2025: LAW JD 948 A1, Sep 2nd to Dec 19th 2025
Days Start End Credits Instructors Bldg Room
ARR 12:00 am 12:00 am 3 Caitlin Glass
SPRG 2026: LAW JD 948 B1, Jan 12th to Apr 22nd 2026
Days Start End Credits Instructors Bldg Room
ARR 12:00 am 12:00 am 3 Caitlin Glass
LAW JD 949

Racial Justice & Movement Lawyering Clinic: Seminar

3 credits

THIS CLASS IS RESTRICTED to students who have formally applied to and been accepted to the Racial Justice & Movement Lawyering Clinic. This seminar introduces students to skills and theoretical frameworks that can support their lawyering practice and invites students to engage in critical reflection regarding their clinical fieldwork. Topics covered in the seminar may include, for example: theories of change, interviewing and storytelling, ethical practice, fact development for litigation, interpreting and using data and social science research, and oral advocacy. We will also analyze the structural conditions that we face in our fieldwork and consider whether and how we, as lawyers, can support the imagination of new possibilities through generative collaborations with clients and community partners. Throughout the semester, students will have the opportunity to: present mock legislative testimony or engage in a mock oral argument related to their fieldwork; deliver a class presentation on a topic pertaining to social justice and the law; and participate in in case rounds practice, which entails sharing challenges that come up in our fieldwork and engaging in group-based problem-solving. CO-REQUISITE: LAW JD 948 (Clinic Fieldwork). NOTE: Both the fieldwork and in-class seminar count towards the 6 credit Experiential Learning requirement. GRADING NOTICE: This clinic does not offer the CR/NC/H option.


FALL 2025: LAW JD 949 A1, Sep 2nd to Dec 19th 2025
Days Start End Credits Instructors Bldg Room
Thu 2:10 pm 4:10 pm 3 Caitlin Glass LAW 519
SPRG 2026: LAW JD 949 B1, Jan 12th to Apr 22nd 2026
Days Start End Credits Instructors Bldg Room
Thu 2:10 pm 4:10 pm 3 Caitlin Glass