Mark S. Brodin is Professor of Law, Michael and Helen Lee Distinguished Scholar, and former Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Boston College Law School. A graduate of Columbia College (1969) and Columbia Law School (1972) (where he served on the Law Review), Professor Brodin clerked for United States District Judge Joseph L. Tauro (D. Mass. ) from 1972 to 1974, and was Staff Attorney with the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law of the Boston Bar Association from 1974 to 1980, representing plaintiffs in individual and class actions involving employment and housing discrimination as well as police misconduct. Professor Brodin also served for brief periods as a public defender in Boston, and a prosecutor in Norfolk County.
Professor Brodin has published extensively in the areas of evidence, civil and criminal procedure, litigation, employment discrimination, and affirmative action. He is the author of numerous law review and journal articles, and co-author of the Handbook of Massachusetts Evidence (with Michael Avery), Criminal Procedure: The Constitution and the Police (with Robert M. Bloom), and Civil Procedure: Doctrine, Practice and Context (with Stephen Subrin, Martha Minow, Thom Main & Alexandra Lahav). His biography William P. Homans Jr.: A Life in Court traces the career and times of the iconic Boston criminal defense and civil liberties lawyer. He has been Editorial Consultant to Weinstein's Federal Evidence since 2015.