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Mark S. Brodin

Professor

Michael and Helen Lee Distinguished Scholar

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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 the听Howard Law Journal, and he is currently completing a ten-year retrospective on the case.

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 of听听(Wolters Kluwer),听Criminal Procedure: The Constitution & Police听(Aspen Publishing), and听(Aspen Publishing). He published听(Vandeplas Publishing), tracing the life and times of the iconic criminal defense and civil liberties lawyer.听Brodin is Editorial Consultant to the six-volume听treatise (LexisNexis).

For brief periods, Brodin 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鈥檚 Interdisciplinary Center in Herliya, Israel, and at Trinity Law School in Dublin, Ireland. He was also a visiting professor at Boston University School of Law, Northeastern University School of Law, and Tufts University鈥檚 Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

The Law Students Association named Brodin 精东影业 Law鈥檚 2002-2003 Faculty Member of the Year. Additionally, the Black Law Students Association awarded Brodin the听Ruth Arlene Howe Award听in both 2005 and 2006 and the听Anthony P. Farley Excellence in Training Award听for the 2008-2009 academic year.

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