Professor Joseph Glannon earned his B.A., M.A.T. and J.D. degrees from Harvard. After clerking for the Massachusetts Appeals Court and serving as Assistant Corporation Counsel for the City of Boston, he joined the Suffolk University Law School faculty in 1980. Professor Glannon teaches Civil Procedure, Conflict of Laws and Torts, and has written extensively on public tort liability in Massachusetts. He is the author of Civil Procedure: Examples & Explanations, the initial volume of Aspen’s Examples & Explanations series. This widely used student text is now in its Ninth Edition. He also authored The Law of Torts: Examples & Explanations, which is in its Sixth Edition. Professor Glannon is the coauthor, along with Andrew Perlman, Peter Raven-Hansen, and Jennifer Reynolds, of a leading Civil Procedure casebook, Civil Procedure: A Coursebook. He is also the author of a Civil Procedure review text, The Glannon Guide to Civil Procedure, also published by Aspen and now in its Fourth Edition.

Professor Glannon is also the coauthor, along with Dean Perlman and faculty colleague Linda Simard, of an online video review program entitled Practice Perfect Civil Procedure, the first in a series of Practice Perfect titles for Aspen. The second iteration, Practice Perfect Torts, is coauthored by Glannon along with faculty colleague Pat Shin and Professor Julie Steiner of Western New England School of Law.

Professor Glannon had another life before law school. He served as a stage carpenter at Brandeis University and as an Assistant Dean of Students at Bates College before succumbing to the lure of law