Marni Goldstein Caputo

Biography

Marni Goldstein Caputo 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. She is also currently the Co-Director of the Lawyering Program. She also teaches Introduction to American Law to LL.M. students and a seminar on Capital Punishment in the United States. She has also taught as an adjunct at BU Law (prior to joining the faculty full-time), BU’s Questrom School of Business, and Harvard Law School. She was the 2022 recipient of the Michael Melton Award for Teaching Excellence at BU Law.

Her research interests include law school pedagogy and professional identity formation. Along with her colleague, Kathleen Luz, she writes and presents extensively at local and national conferences on a variety of topics, including incorporating professional identity formation into the 1L curriculum. Her scholarship has appeared in the Journal of Legal Education, Brooklyn Law Review, Virginia Law & Business Review, and The International Lawyer, among other publications. She was also the Co-Recipient of the 2026 Neil Hamilton Professional Identity Formation Distinguished Scholar Award from the Holloran Center for Ethical Leadership in the Professions.

Prior to joining BU Law, she worked as an international career advisor in Harvard Law School’s Office of Career Services, a Staff Attorney in the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, a litigation associate at two Boston law firms, and a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Willis B. Hunt, Jr. of the United States District Court of the Northern District of Georgia.

She received her BA, cum laude, from Tufts University, and her JD, with Honors, from Emory University School of Law.