Professor Caplow is the Director of the Law School's Clinical Education Program. A leader in the field of clinical legal education, she spent her recent sabbatical in Hong Kong where she assisted Hong Kong University in developing a clinical program, and then spent a semester as a Fulbright Scholar at University College Cork, Ireland. She has been the president of the Clinical Legal Education Association. She also served for six years on the board of editors of the Clinical Legal Review. She is the co-author of Multidefendant Criminal Cases: Federal Law and Procedure (1998 & Supps. 1999, 2000). Her background includes serving as Special Assistant United States Attorney in the Civil Division in the Eastern District of New York, and as Director of Training and Chief of the Criminal Court Bureau in the Kings County District Attorney's Office. She also was a staff attorney with the Legal Aid Society. Professor Caplow has been a member of the faculty since 1976. Professor Caplow teaches Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Immigration Law and the Safe Harbor Project immigration clinic.
Articles
The Gaelic Goetz: A Case of Self-Defense in Ireland, Cardozo J. Int'l & Comp. L. (2009)
For two years, the name Padraig Nally was a household word in Ireland. Nally killed...
Punch Lines: Two Tales from a Law Student Intern's Summer in the City [Symposium: Law Stories: Tales from Legal Practice, Experience and Education], 76 UMKC L. Rev. 831 (2008)
Putting the "I" in Wr*t*ng: Drafting an A/Effective Personal Statement to Tell a Winning Refugee Story, Journal of the Legal Writing Institute (2008)
Clinical Legal Education in Hong Kong: A Time to Move Forward, 36 Hong Kong L.J. 229 (2006)
Books
Multidefendant Criminal Cases: Federal Law and Procedure (Supps. 1999- ) (with L. Griffin) (1998)
Contributions to Books
Reversal of Fortune, Affirmation of Ambiguity , Screening Justice: The Cinema of Law: Significant Films of Law, Order and Social Justice (2006)
Using Teaching Assistants to Put Criminal Law in Context , Teaching the Law School Curriculum (2004)
Field Placement Programmes (with Mary Jo Eyster and K. Gallant), A Handbook on Clinical Legal Education (1998)
Sex Offenses and Offenses Against Marriage , New York Criminal Practice, Supp. 1986 (1986)
Other
Immigration Court: Bullies of the Bench , Nat'l L. J. (2007)
Clinical Legal Education at the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law , Report submitted to the University (2006)
Dead to Write (reprint ; originally appeared in Clinical Legal Education Association Creative Writing Contest, 2005 (First Prize)), 8 T. M. Cooley J. of Practical and Clinical L. 67 (2006)
Mona Retires (reprint; originally appeared in Clinical Legal Education Association Creative Writing Contest, 2002 (Honorable Mention), 8 T.M. Cooley J. Prac. & Clinical L. 67 (2006)
Unpublished Papers
After the Flood: The Legacy of the "Surge" of Federal Immigration Appeals, ExpressO (2011)
For many years, the big news in United States Courts of Appeal was the skyrocketing...