Professor Jasmine B. Gonzales Rose

Jasmine B. Gonzales Rose is a Professor and Associate Dean for Equity, Justice & Engagement at Boston University School of Law. She is a founding faculty member of the BU Center for Antiracist Research where she served in a variety of leadership positions from 2020-2023 including, Deputy Director of Research & Policy, Faculty Chair of Policy, and Acting Co-Director. She is a critical proceduralist and is particularly interested in the intersections of race and language within two areas: juries and evidence. She is a leading criticalist voice on evidence law, with a focus on the evidentiary issues raised by racialized police violence, and juror language disenfranchisement.

Professor Gonzales Rose’s scholarship has appeared in several journals, including the Minnesota Law Review, Wisconsin Law Review, Hastings Law Journal, Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, New York University Review of Law and Social Change, and Alabama Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Law Review. Her scholarship is also forthcoming in several books, including the Oxford Handbook on Race and Law in the United States, NOMOS LX: Truth and Evidence, A Guide to Civil Procedure: Integrating Critical Legal Perspectives, and Philosophical Foundations of the Law of Evidence.

Professor Gonzales Rose currently teaches courses in Evidence, Criminal Law, and Latinxs and the Law. She has previously taught Civil Procedure, Complex Litigation, Race, Racism, and the Law, and Civil Rights Law.

Professor Gonzales Rose joined BU Law from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where she taught for nearly a decade. At Pitt Law she received the law school’s Robert T. Harper Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Distinguished Public Interest Professor Award, the latter twice. Due to her scholarly commitment to racial justice, she was selected as a Derrick A. Bell Fund for Excellence Scholar two times.

Professor Gonzales Rose is a graduate of Harvard Law School, where she served as an editor-in-chief of the Harvard Latinx Law Review and a member of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau. She clerked for Judge Héctor M. Laffitte of the US District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and Judge Damon J. Keith of the US Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit. She has worked for a variety of nonprofit and governmental organizations on issues of civil and human rights. Most recently she served on the boards of directors of the American Civil Liberties Union of Greater Pittsburgh and the Abolitionist Law Center. She is a member of the Supreme Judicial Court Advisory Committee on Massachusetts Evidence Law.