Since 1978, David Rossman has served as director of BU Law\u2019s Criminal Law Clinical Programs. He teaches courses in criminal procedure, criminal trial practice, criminal trial advocacy and issues in criminal justice. \u201cWorking with young lawyers on actual litigation is immensely satisfying,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019m always energized by the new ways in which they attack problems that seem old hat to me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Professor Rossman has maintained an active criminal defense practice for nearly three decades. He has represented defendants at all state and federal court levels, including the US Supreme Court. He also has served as an assistant district attorney in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, where he was responsible for grand jury investigations and prosecutions of white-collar crimes. As a Massachusetts special assistant attorney general, he represented bar counsel in federal litigation regarding the rules of ethics that regulate federal prosecutors. \u201cCriminal law is exciting to me because the way it is formulated and implemented by police and the courts helps define the very society in which we live,\u201d he says. \u201cThe issues involved are at the forefront of the public\u2019s attention and literally have to do with life and death.\u201d<\/p>\n
Additionally, Professor Rossman has served as a law clerk on the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and a teaching fellow at Boston College Law School. He has consulted with the Massachusetts Department of Personnel Administration and the UN\u2019s Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Program and has written a treatise on guilty pleas, as well as monographs and articles on criminal procedure. In 2000, Professor Rossman spoke on \u201cThe Fight Against International Crime and the Threat to Individual Liberties\u201d at the \u201cGlobalization and Crime\u201d conference in Mexico City. He was involved in a State Department grant that provided assistance to a law school clinic in Siberia.<\/p>\n
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