Caitlin Glass

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.