Professor Mark S. Brodin is Michael & Helen Lee Distinguished Scholar and former Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Boston College Law School. He has published extensively in the fields of employment discrimination, constitutional criminal procedure, civil procedure, evidence, scientific and forensic evidence, and litigation. He is the author of numerous often-cited law review articles. Notably, his article "" appears in the Wiley A. Branton Symposium Issue of theÌýHoward Law Journal, and his ten-year retrospective on the case appears in the Marquette Law Review.
An honors graduate of Columbia College and Columbia Law School (where he served on the Law Review), Professor Brodin clerked for United States District Judge Joseph L. Tauro from 1972 to 1974. He was Staff Attorney with the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law of the Boston Bar Association from 1974 to 1980 and on the Steering Committee until 1991, representing plaintiffs in individual and class actions in the areas of employment discrimination, housing discrimination, sexual harassment, First Amendment, and police misconduct.
Brodin is co-author ofÌýÌý(with Michael Avery),ÌýCriminal Procedure: The Constitution & PoliceÌý(with Robert Bloom), andÌý(with Subrin, Minow, Main and Lahav). HisÌý(Vandeplas Publishing), traces the life and times of the iconic criminal defense and civil liberties lawyer.ÌýBrodin is Editorial Consultant to the six-volumeÌýtreatise and oversees the tri-annual updates.
For brief periods Brodin has served as an appellate attorney with the Massachusetts Defenders Committee (now the Committee for Public Counsel) and a special assistant district attorney with the Norfolk County District Attorney. He has had appointments as a visiting scholar at the Radzyner School of Law’s Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel, and at Trinity Law School in Dublin, Ireland. He has been a visiting professor at Boston University School of Law, Northeastern University School of Law, and Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
The Law Students Association named Brodin Ï㽶Ðã Law’s 2002-2003 Faculty Member of the Year, and the Black Law Students Association awarded him theÌýRuth Arlene Howe AwardÌýin both 2005 and 2006 and theÌýAnthony P. Farley Excellence in Training AwardÌýin 2009.
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