Mark Spiegel

Mark Spiegel is a graduate of the University of Michigan and the University of Chicago Law School. He retired in June 2023 from the faculty of Boston College Law School, where he taught for over 40 years. During his first twenty years at Boston College Law School, he was Director of the Boston College Legal Assistance Bureau and taught primarily in the law school’s legal services clinical program.

Prior to joining the BC faculty, Mark directed the clinical program at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and was a clinical supervisor at the University of Chicago Law School. After graduating Law School in 1968 he was a legal writing instructor at the University of Michigan Law School and then a Reginald Heber Smith Fellow working at the Appellate and Test Case Division of the Legal Aid Bureau of Chicago.

At Boston College Mark has also taught courses in Civil Procedure, Civil Rights Litigation, Complex Litigation and Federal Courts. His scholarship has focused on lawyer-client decision making, particularly on who gets to make decisions during representation. More recently he has written about the history of legal services including an article on the history of legal services in Boston.

As an Access to Justice Fellow, Mark will work with the Boston College Law School Innocence Clinic. He hopes to apply his past experiences in legal services and clinical education to a new area where there is a critical need for legal representation. He will assist with representation of clients claiming innocence, help students studying erroneous convictions, and work policy initiatives that hopefully will remedy or prevent such injustices in the future.