Jasmine Gonzales Rose

Biography

Professor Jasmine Gonzales Rose is a leading critical evidence scholar whose research examines how race, racism, and antiracism are utilized and considered as sources of proof in litigation, as well as how juror language disenfranchisement systematically limits who can serve as factfinders. Rooted in critical race studies and drawing on epistemology, Professor Gonzales Rose employs doctrinal, theoretical, policy, and legal empirical methodologies to explore and reimagine evidence law and practice, striving to make them more accurate, fair, equitable, and just. Her scholarship has been published or is forthcoming in numerous journals, including the Yale Law Journal, Boston University Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, Wisconsin Law Review, Hastings Law Journal, Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, and New York University Review of Law and Social Change, as well as in several edited volumes, 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. In 2021, she received the Dean’s Teaching Award. She has also taught Civil Procedure, Complex Litigation, Race and the Law, and Civil Rights Law. Prior to joining Boston University, she taught for nearly a decade at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where she received the Robert T. Harper Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Distinguished Public Interest Professor Award two times. Due to her scholarly commitment to racial justice, she was selected twice as a Derrick A. Bell Fund for Excellence Scholar.

A mission-driven and humanity-centered academic leader, Professor Gonzales Rose previously served as Associate Dean for Equity, Justice, and Engagement at Boston University School of Law and led the Policy Office at the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research. She delivered the 2020 Annual Derrick Bell Lecture on Race in American Society at New York University and the 2023 University Lecture at Boston University.

Professor Gonzales Rose is a graduate of Harvard Law School, where she served as co-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 U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and Judge Damon J. Keith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. She has worked for a variety of nonprofit and governmental organizations on issues of civil and human rights, including serving on the boards of the American Civil Liberties Union of Greater Pittsburgh and the Abolitionist Law Center, which was founded by her former students. She is a member of the Supreme Judicial Court Advisory Committee on Massachusetts Evidence Law.