Assistant Professor of Law
(501) 916-5450 | Room 404
Email: [email protected]
Faculty Assistant: Sam Smith | Room 524 | (501) 916-5440 | [email protected]
Caroline Rothert Boch teaches Research, Writing, and Analysis I and II. Before joining the Bowen faculty in 2024, Professor Boch served as a law clerk to the Hon. D. P. Marshall Jr. and Brian S. Miller of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas and the Hon. Robin F. Wynne of the Arkansas Supreme Court.
A native of Hot Springs, Professor Boch graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard College with a degree in history. After serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer in El Salvador, she returned to Harvard, where she earned a law degree and a Master in Public Policy. She was a Presidential Management Fellow at the Social Security Administration in Chicago and practiced law at Disability Rights Arkansas.
Professor Boch serves on the Arkansas Judges and Lawyers Assistance Program (JLAP) Foundation Board, The Arkansas Lawyer Editorial Advisory Board, and the Saint Thomas More Society of Arkansas Board. In 2024, she received the Maurice Cathey Award from the Arkansas Bar Association for her contributions to The Arkansas Lawyer.
Education
- J.D., cum laude, Harvard Law School, 2008
- M.P.P., Harvard Kennedy School of Government, 2008
- A.B., cum laude, Harvard College, 2001
Courses
- Research, Writing, and Analysis I & II
- Legal Editing
Areas of Expertise
- Legal research and writing
- Disability rights law
- Civil rights law
- Public interest law
- Judicial process and courts
Featured Scholarship
Judicial Resistance: How State Courts Delayed Desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas Law Review (forthcoming 2027).
Perspectives of Arkansas Lawyers with Physical Challenges, 58 The Arkansas Lawyer 4 (Fall 2023).
The Committee on the Unauthorized Practice of Law: Striving for Fairness and Efficiency in Arkansas’ UPL Enforcement System, 56 The Arkansas Lawyer 4 (Fall 2021) (with Justice Robin F. Wynne).
Honors & Awards
- Maurice Cathey Award, Arkansas Bar Association, 2024
- L. Anthony Sutin Public Service Fellowship, Harvard Law School
- HLS Alumni Association of Northern California Public Interest Fellowship
- Phi Beta Kappa
- Ames Award, Harvard College
- Pforzheimer House Public Service Award, Harvard College
Selected Service & Leadership
- Board Secretary, Arkansas Judges and Lawyers Assistance Program Foundation
- Editorial Board Member, The Arkansas Lawyer
- Board Member, Saint Thomas More Society of Arkansas
- Fellow, Arkansas Bar Foundation
- Assistant Editor, Legal Writing: The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute
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