Caitlin Glass writes about criminal law and procedure, race and the law, participatory methods, and movement law. Among other things, her recent work explores legal, theoretical, and moral critiques of imputed liability doctrines such as felony murder and accomplice liability. Her scholarship has been published or is forthcoming in the Minnesota Law Review, the Northwestern University Law Review and the Fordham Urban Law Journal. She is a Non-Resident Fellow at the Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality.

At BU Law, Professor Glass directs the Racial Justice and Movement Lawyering Clinic, which provides legal support to organizations, coalitions, and grassroots groups seeking to challenge forms of subordination and build community power. Through the Clinic and in her individual capacity, Glass regularly collaborates with organizers who are contesting criminalization and exploitation.

Before joining the law school, Professor Glass was the Policy Program Director at the BU Center for Antiracist Research. Her previous roles included Staff Attorney at the Office of the Appellate Defender, Assistant Director of the NYU Law Clemency Resource Center, Marvin M. Karpatkin Fellow with the ACLU’s Racial Justice Program, and law clerk for Judge Ann M. Donnelly in the Eastern District of New York. She received her law degree from NYU School of Law, where she was on the Review of Law and Social Change and participated in the Racial Justice Clinic and the Equal Justice and Capital Defender Clinic. She received her undergraduate degree in Public Policy with honors from the University of Chicago.

Aaron Butler is a Senior Staff Attorney in the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Criminal Legal Systems Reform unit, where he challenges over-incarceration and state violence across the Deep South. His docket includes Braggs v. Hamm, a class action challenging unconstitutional mental-health care in Alabama prisons.
Before joining SPLC, Aaron served as Managing Attorney at CAIR-Georgia, where he led the organization’s federal civil rights docket and challenged discrimination in prisons, schools, and workplaces.
Aaron spent nearly eight years representing death-sentenced clients in the Capital Habeas Units of federal defender offices, first as a Staff Attorney in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and later as an Assistant Federal Defender in Austin, Texas. He litigated claims involving suppressed evidence, intellectual disability, competency to be executed, coercive interrogation, and judicial bias.
His advocacy helped win stays of execution in Gonzales v. Lumpkin and Lucio v. Texas. The Lucio stay was the first granted to a Latina on Texas’s death row. In Ex parte Randy Ethan Halprin, his work exposed antisemitic judicial bias. The case resulted in a stay of execution and, ultimately, a new trial.
Aaron, a Senior Atlantic Fellow for Racial Equity and former International Legal Foundation Fellow, advised Myanmar indigent defense lawyers and helped dismiss capital charges against a client.

Heather Schoenfeld is an award-winning scholar, author, and expert on mass incarceration in the United States. An Associate Professor of Sociology and Law (by courtesy) at Boston University, Schoenfeld’s scholarship examines how race, politics, and litigation shape the American carceral system. Her research is supported by numerous grants and fellowships from the National Science Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, and Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. The author of Building the Prison State: Race and the Politics of Mass Incarceration (University of Chicago Press 2018), Schoenfeld’s work regularly appears in premier social science journals including Law & Society Review, Criminology, and Law & Policy. Her recent article in Law & Social Inquiry, “Patchwork Protection: The Politics of Prisoners’ Rights Accountability in the United States,” shines a critical light on systemic failures to protect incarcerated women. Schoenfeld’s current research investigates state-level efforts to reduce imprisonment since 2000 in six states—Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Schoenfeld earned her PhD from Northwestern University in 2009. Before joining Boston University, she held faculty positions at Northwestern University and the Ohio State University.