Faculty Colloquia Series: I. Bennett Capers

Wednesday, January 27, 2016

12:30 PM-1:30 PM

Brooklyn Law School Professor I. Bennett Capers presents “Rape Shields, Rape Judgments.” Professor Capers is the Stanley A. August Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School and an expert in criminal law and procedure and evidence law. His academic interests include the relationship between race, gender, and criminal justice. In 2013, he served as Chairperson of the AALS 2013 Conference on Criminal Justice. That same year, Judge Shira Scheindlin appointed him to Chair the Academic Advisory Council to assist in implementing the remedial order in the stop-and-frisk class action Floyd v. City of New York. He also serves as an appointed member of the NYC Civilian Complaint Review Board. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute, a member of the AALS Committee on Professional Development, and an appointed member of the New York State Judicial Screening Committee.

Prior to teaching, he spent nearly 10 years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York. His work trying several federal racketeering cases earned him a nomination for the Department of Justice’s Director’s Award in 2004. He also practiced with the firms of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton and Willkie Farr & Gallagher. He clerked for the Hon. John S. Martin, Jr. of the Southern District of New York. Prior to joining Brooklyn Law School, he taught at Hofstra University School of Law, where he served as Associate Dean of Faculty Development in 2010-11, and where he received the 2006-07 Teacher of the Year Award and the 2009 Lawrence A. Stessin Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Publication.

2015-2016 Faculty Colloquium Series