Biography

Professor Capulong directs the experiential learning program, which consists of our in-house clinics, externships, and simulation courses.  Prior to joining Richardson Law, he was a professor, lawyering program director, and interim dean at the City University of New York School of Law; professor and associate dean for clinical and experiential education at the University of Montana Alexander Blewett III School of Law; lawyering professor at the New York University School of Law; and public interest and public policy programs director and lecturer in law and urban studies at Stanford Law School.

Professor Capulong was also a visiting professor at the University of the Philippines College of Law; China Youth University for Political Studies; and Universidad de Granada Facultad de Derecho, where he helped launch the school’s first clinical course.  His current scholarly interests include legal education, lawyering, professional identity formation, law and social justice, race and racism, and dispute resolution.

Before joining the academy, Professor Capulong was a litigator, policy analyst, and community organizer for various nonprofits, including the Center for Constitutional Rights, Chinese Staff and Workers’ Association, Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence, Community Service Society, Northern California Coalition for Immigrant Rights, Philippine Center for Immigrant Rights, and Public Interest Law Center (Manila).  A former Karpatkin Fellow at the American Civil Liberties Union and pro se law clerk at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Professor Capulong received his BA from NYU and JD from CUNY as a Patricia Roberts Harris Scholar and Davis-Putter Fellow.

Professor Capulong is the former co-chair of the American Association of Law Schools  Section on Clinical Legal Education and has served on the boards of the Montana ACLU, Society of American Law Teachers, National Lawyers Guild (San Francisco), International Endowment for Democracy, Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, and Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund. 

Publications

[d]emocratic Lawyering: Upending the “Hidden Curriculum” to Prepare Lawyers for a New World, 1 J. Law Teaching & Learning ___ (2024) (forthcoming) (with Andrew King-Ries & Monte Mills)

Antiracism, Reflection, & Professional Identity, 18 Hastings Race & Poverty L. J. 3 (2021) (with Andrew King-Ries & Monte Mills)

The ‘Second Wave’ of Spanish Clinical Legal Education: Institutional, Pedagogical, & Empirical Lessons for a Pilot Course & Program at the University of Granada (with Masao Javier Lopez Sako, Andrew King-Ries, & Pilar Fernandez Artiach), 26 Int’l J.  Clin. Legal Ed. 119 (2019)

Race, Racism, & American Law from the Indigenous, Black, & Immigrant Perspectives (with Andrew King-Ries & Monte Mills), 21 The Scholar: St. Mary’s L. Rev. Race & Soc’l Justice 1 (2019)

Client as Subject: Humanizing the Legal Curriculum, 23 Clin. L. Rev. 37 (2016)

The New 1L: First-Year Lawyering with Clients (2015) (Michael A. Millemann, Sara Rankin, and Nantiya Ruan, co-authors/editors)

Mediation & the Neocolonial Legal Order: Access to Justice & Self-Determination in the Philippines, 27 Ohio St. J. Disp. Res. 641 (2012)

Client Activism in Progressive Lawyering Theory, 16 Clin. L. Rev. 1101 (2009)

The People Power Revolution of the Philippines, 1986, & Corazon Aquino, Encyclopedia of Activism & Social Justice (Russell Sage, 2007)

Which Side Are You On? Unionization in Social Service Nonprofits, 9 N.Y.C. L. Rev. 373 (2006)