About the Authors
Stephen N. Subrin
Stephen Subrin is a professor of Law at Northeastern University. Before joining the Northeastern University faculty in 1970, Professor Subrin practiced civil litigation and labor law for seven years with the Boston firm of Burns & Levinson, where he became a partner in 1966. He has published extensively on civil procedure, with an emphasis on procedure reform, and the historical background of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.Professor Subrin has taught Civil Procedure, Evidence, Complex Litigation, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Federal Courts and The Legal Imagination. He was reporter to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Standing Advisory Committee on Rules of Civil Procedure for 12 years and was consultant to the reporter on the Local Rules Project of the Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure of the Judicial Conference of the United States.
Along with coauthoring Litigating in America, Professor Subrin is coauthor of a seminal casebook, Civil Procedure: Doctrine, Practice, and Context.
Professor Subrin has taught Civil Procedure at Harvard Law School and Renmin University in Beijing, China, and Complex Litigation at Yale Law School. He has also taugh Introduction to the American Legal System at the Cornell Law School Paris Summer Institute.
Martha L. Minow
Martha L. Minow is Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.
Research Interests
Equality and Inequality
Human Rights and Transitional Societies
Law and Social Change
Religion and Pluralism
Subject Areas for Supervising Written Work
Civil Procedure
Equality
First Amendment
Human Rights
Law and Education
Nonprofit and Nongovernmental Organizations
Education
University of Michigan A.B. 1975, History
Harvard Graduate School of Education Ed.M. 1976
Yale Law School J.D. 1979
Wheelock College Ed.D. (Honorary) 1998
University of Toronto S.J.D (Honorary) 2006
Appointments
Lecturer, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Senior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows
Assistant Professor of Law, 1981
Professor of Law, 1986
Acting Director, Harvard University Program on Ethics and the Professions, 1993-94
Acting Director, Harvard University Center on Ethics and the Professions, 2000-01
William Henry Bloomberg Professor of Law, 2003-2004
Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law, 2005
Representative Publications
Minow, Martha L. "Living Up to Rules: Holding Soldiers Responsible for Abusive Conduct and the Dilemma of the Superior Orders Defence," 52 McGill Law Review 1 (2007).
Minow, Martha L. "Tolerance in an Age of Terror," 16 University of Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal 453 (2007).
Minow, Martha L. "Should Religious Groups Ever Be Exempt From Civil Rights Laws?" 48 Boston College Law Review 781 (2007).
Minow, Martha L. "Outsourcing Power: How Privatizing Military Efforts Challenges Accountability, Professionalism, and Democracy," 46 Boston College Law Review 989 (2005) (article review).
Minow, Martha L. "What is the Greatest Evil?" Book Review of Michael Ignatieff, "The Lesser Evil," 118 Harvard Law Review 2134 (2005).
Partners, Not Rivals: Privatization and the Public Good (Martha L. Minow ed., Beacon Press 2002).
Engaging Cultural Differences (Martha L. Minow, Richard Schweder & Hazel Markus eds., Russell Sage Foundation 2002).
Minow, Martha L. Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History After Genocide and Mass Violence (Beacon Press 1998).
(Awarded the American Society of International Law Certificate of Merit, 2000)
Minow, Martha L. Not Only For Myself: Identity, Politics, and Law (The New Press 1997).
Minow, Martha L. Making All the Difference: Inclusion, Exclusion, and American Law (Cornell University Press 1990).
Mark S. Brodin
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., 2007); Criminal Procedure: The Constitution and the Police, Examples and Explanations (First thru Fifth Editions) with Robert M. Bloom (Aspen 2007); Civil Procedure: Doctrine, Practice and Context (First and Second Editions) (Aspen 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.
EDUCATION
B.A., J.D., Columbia University.
PUBLICATIONS
- Criminal Procedure: The Constitution and the Police, Examples and Explanations, 5th ed. (Aspen 2007) (with Robert M. Bloom)
- Handbook of Massachusetts Evidence, 8th ed. (Aspen 2007) (with Michael Avery)
- Civil Procedure: Doctrine, Practice and Context, 2d ed. (Aspen 2004) (with Stephen N. Subrin, Martha L. Minow and Thomas O. Main)
- "Behavioral Science Evidence in the Age of Daubert: Reflections of a Skeptic" 73 University of Cincinnati Law Review 867(2005)
- "The Demise of Circumstantial Proof in Employment Discrimination Litigation: St. Mary's Honor Center v. Hicks, Pretext, and the 'Personality' Excuse." 18 Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law 183 (1997)
- "Accuracy, Efficiency, and Accountability in the Litigation Process - The Case for the Fact Verdict." 59 University of Cincinnati Law Review 15 (1990)
- "Reflections on the Supreme Court's 1988 Term: The Employment Discrimination Decisions and the Abandonment of the Second Reconstruction." 31 Boston College Law Review 1 (1989)
- "Costs, Profits, and Equal Employment Opportunity." 62 Notre Dame Law Review 318 (1987)
- "The Role of Fault and Motive in Defining Discrimination: The Seniority Question Under Title VII." 62 North Carolina Law Review 943 (1984)
- Review of A Constitutional History of Habeas Corpus, by William F. Duker. 8 New England Journal on Prison Law 325 (Winter 1982)
- "The Standard of Causation in the Mixed-Motive Title VII Action -- A Social Policy Perspective." 82 Columbia Law Review 292 (1982)
- "Case Note: Ashe v. Swenson: Collateral Estoppel, Double Jeopardy, and Inconsistent Verdicts." 71 Columbia Law Review 321 (1971)
RECENT ACTIVITIES
Presentations:
- Evidence and Proof, at the annual conference of the Division of Industrial Accidents Judges, Lexington, Massachusetts, in June 2004
- Recent Developments in Scientific and Forensic Evidence, to the Massachusetts Black Judges Conference at BC Law in April, 2004
- "Dred Scott to Grutter: Civil Rights through the Years," for Black History Month at BC Law in February, 2004
Work in Progress:
William P. Homans, Jr.: A Life in Court
Appointments:
- Appointed by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Margaret H. Marshall to the Advisory Committee on Massachusetts Evidence Law in Jully 2006
- Observed war crimes proceedings at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands, in November 2004.
COURSES
Evidence, Civil Procedure, Scientific Evidence, Employment Discrimination Law
Thomas O. Main
Professor Main is an expert in the field of domestic and international civil procedure with numerous publications including Civil Procedure: Doctrine, Practice, and Context (Aspen Publishers), a leading casebook in the field that is now in its third edition. A second book, Global Issues in Civil Procedure (West), is the first of a series of books intended to globalize the law school curriculum. In addition, he is co-authoring a book with Professor Stephen McCaffrey, Transnational Litigation in Comparative Perspective, to be published by Oxford University Press.
Professor Main has taught domestic and international procedure courses at Pacific McGeorge since 2000, and has also taught as a visiting professor at law schools at Florida State University, Yeshiva University (Cardozo), UC Davis. and foreign law schools.
Prior to his academic career, Professor Main was a litigator in the trial department at Hill & Barlow in Boston, Massachusetts, and was the Associate General Counsel at Platinum Equity. He clerked for Judge Ruggero J. Aldisert of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Professor Main has been elected to the American Law Institute and the International Association of Procedural Law.
