2022 Inaugural Graciela Olivárez Latinas in the Legal Academy ("GO LILA") Workshop
Karen Pita Loor
Karen Pita Loor (KPL) is the associate dean for experiential education, an associate clinical professor of law and a Michaels Faculty Research Scholar at Boston University School of Law. She assumed the role of associate dean in 2019, after eight years teaching and supervising student attorneys in the Defender Division of the BU Criminal Law Clinical Program. KPL teaches a seminar that she developed entitled Regulation of the Immigrant Experience where students examine, through a legal lens, the obstacles immigrants face in American society. She writes and speaks on issues related to protest policing, criminal law and procedure, police violence and immigrants’ rights. Her scholarly pieces have appeared in various journals including most recently the Southern California Law Review and the Boston University Law Review. Her article entitled An Argument Against Unbounded Arrest Power: The Expressive Fourth Amendment and Protesting While Black is forthcoming in the Michigan Law Review. Beyond scholarly engagement, KPL also seeks to engage with the public on these topics and has been tapped as an expert by various media outlets including The Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, USA Today, WBUR, Huffington Post, Huffington Post Live, and major local news outlets. She has been recognized for her scholarship and her service, receiving the Dean’s Scholarship Award, the Dean’s Service Award, and the law school’s Access to Justice Award. KPL initially joined the BU Law clinical faculty in 2011 after serving as an assistant clinical professor with the Florida International University College of Law, supervising law students representing unaccompanied immigrant children in immigration and neglect proceedings. She started her legal career as a staff attorney at the premier public defender office in the country, the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, where she represented indigent clients in criminal trial and appellate matters. KPL is a native of Ecuador. She migrated with her mother and sister to the United States as an 11-year-old child.
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