Examples & Explanations for Criminal Procedure: The Constitution and the Police, Tenth Edition

Mark S. Brodin is Professor of Law and former Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Boston College Law School. A 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 Counsel with the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law of the Boston Bar Association from 1974 to 1980, representing plaintiffs in civil rights actions including DeGrace v. Rumsfeld, 614 F. 2d 796 (1st Cir. 1980); N.A.A.C.P. Boston Chapter v. Harris, 607 F. 2d 514 (1st Cir. 1979); Harris v. White, 479 F. Supp. 996 (D. Mass. 1979); Cooke v. Sarni Original Dry Cleaners, 2 M.D.L.R. 1012 (1980), aff'd 388 Mass. 611 (1983) (trial counsel).

Professor Brodin has published extensively in the areas of employment discrimination, constitutional criminal procedure, evidence, and litigation. He is the author of numerous law review articles and co-author of the Handbook of Massachusetts Evidence (Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Editions) with Paul J. Liacos and Michael Avery (Little, Brown Aspen Publishing, 2007); Criminal Procedure: The Constitution and the Police, Examples and Explanations (First through Fifth Editions) with Robert M. Bloom (Aspen Publishing, 2007); Civil Procedure: Doctrine, Practice and Context (First and Second Editions) (Aspen Publishing, 2004) (with Steve Subrin, Martha Minow, Thom Main).

Professor Brodin has served for brief periods as an appellate attorney with the Massachusetts Defenders Committee (now the Committee for Public Counsel) and as a special assistant district attorney with the Norfolk County District Attorney. Professor Brodin was named BC Law's 2002-2003 Faculty Member of the Year by the Law Students Association and given the Ruth-Arlene W. Howe Award from the Black Law Students Association in 2005 and 2006.