Professor Jasmine Gonzales Rose is a graduate of Harvard Law School, where she served as Editor-In-Chief of the Harvard Latino Law Review and a member of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau.  After law school, she clerked for Judge Damon J. Keith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and Judge Hector M. Laffitte of the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico.  She has also worked for a variety of non-profit and governmental organizations on issues of civil and human rights. From 2009-2011, she was a Teaching Fellow at California Western School of Law in San Diego, where she taught Civil Rights Law and Advanced Civil Procedure: Complex Litigation. Professor Gonzales Rose’s research interests lie primarily at the intersection of race, language, citizenship, and lay participation in the legal system.

Education

Selected Publications

Articles:

The Exclusion of Non-English-Speaking Jurors: Remedying a Century of Denial of the Sixth Amendment in the Federal Courts of Puerto Rico, 46 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review (forthcoming Summer 2011).

Selected Presentations:

LatCrit XV, Denver, CO, October 9, 2010. Paper: The Exclusion of Non-English-Speaking Jurors: Remedying a Century of Denial of the Sixth Amendment in the Federal Courts of Puerto Rico.

Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, May 28, 2010.  Paper: The Exclusion of Non-English-Speaking Jurors: Remedying a Century of Denial of the Sixth Amendment in the Federal Courts of Puerto Rico.  

Critical Race Studies Symposium at UCLA School of Law, March 12, 2010. Paper: Sin Negros, Sin Derechos: The Juridical Erasure of Black-Latino Experience in Federal Jury Selection in Puerto Rico.