{"id":17433,"date":"2015-12-13T19:54:57","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T00:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=17433"},"modified":"2026-08-18T11:46:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T15:46:31","slug":"marni-goldstein-caputo","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/profile\/marni-goldstein-caputo\/","title":{"rendered":"Marni Goldstein Caputo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing\"><strong>Marni Goldstein Caputo<\/strong> is a Senior Lecturer in the Lawyering Program, where she has taught Lawyering Skills to 1L students full-time since the program\u2019s 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\u2019s Questrom School of Business, and Harvard Law School. She was the 2022 recipient of the Michael Melton Award for Teaching Excellence at BU Law.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing\">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 <i>Journal of Legal Education<\/i>, <i>Brooklyn Law Review,\u00a0Virginia Law &amp; Business Review, <\/i>and<i>\u00a0The International Lawyer<\/i>, among other publications<i>.<\/i>\u00a0She was also the Co-Recipient of the 2026 Neil Hamilton Professional Identity Formation Distinguished Scholar Award from\u00a0the Holloran Center for Ethical Leadership in the Professions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing\">Prior to joining BU Law, she worked as an international career advisor in Harvard Law School\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing\">She received her BA, <i>cum laude<\/i>, from Tufts University, and her JD, with Honors, from Emory University School of Law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10885,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/17433"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10885"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/17433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127141,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/17433\/revisions\/127141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}