Kathleen Luz

Biography

Kathleen Luz is a Senior Lecturer in the Lawyering Program, where she has taught Lawyering Skills to 1L students full-time since the program’s inception in 2017. Prior to joining BU Law full-time, she taught as an adjunct at both BU Law and BU’s Questrom School of Business.

Her research interests include skills-based teaching pedagogy, learning science, and professional identity formation. Her scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in the Journal of Legal Education, the Brooklyn Law Review, and the Virginia Law & Business Review. Along with her colleague, Marni Goldstein Caputo, she writes and presents extensively at local and national conferences on a variety of topics, including incorporating professional identity formation as part of the 1L curriculum.

Prior to joining BU Law, she was an associate and a partner at Goodwin Procter in Boston. She specialized in general commercial litigation, products liability litigation, and white collar criminal defense, representing clients in civil and criminal actions in both state and federal courts around the country. In addition, she spent six months as a Special Assistant District Attorney in the Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office in Cambridge, Massachusetts, prosecuting a variety of felony and misdemeanor crimes.

She received her BA, cum laude, from Dartmouth College, and her JD, with honors, from the George Washington University Law Center.