Professor Kaplan joined the faculty in Fall 2004. She was previously the Deputy Director of the Innocence Project, an organization which represents prison inmates in their efforts to obtain DNA testing to prove their innocence, and she co-founded the New England Innocence Project. She was formerly an associate at Testa, Hurwitz and Thibeault in Boston and served as a Law Clerk to Judge Joseph E. Irenas of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. Professor Kaplan sits on the National Advisory Committee of Equal Justice Works and represents asylum seekers through Brooklyn Law School's Safe Harbor Project. She is also a documentary film producer; My Country, My Country, a film she co-produced, was nominated for an Academy Award in 2007.