Professor Capulong directs the in-house Mediation Clinic. He also supervises students in external civil clinics and teaches Advanced Mediation, Mediation Advocacy, and Cause Lawyering.

Prior to joining The University of Montana law faculty, Professor Capulong was Acting Assistant Professor of Lawyering at New York University School of Law, and Director of Public Interest and Public Policy Programs, and Lecturer in Law and Urban Studies, at Stanford Law School.  He received his undergraduate degree in political science and journalism from NYU and law degree from the City University of New York School of Law, where he was a Patricia Roberts Harris Scholar and Davis-Putter Fellow. 

Professor Capulong has worked as a litigator, policy analyst and community organizer for various nonprofits, including the Northern California Coalition for Immigrant Rights, Community Service Society, Center for Constitutional Rights, Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence, and Chinese Staff and Workers' Association. He was the 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 currently serves on the boards of the American Civil Liberties Union and Clark Fork School of Montana. He has also served on the boards of the Society of American Law Teachers, National Lawyers Guild, International Endowment for Democracy, and Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund.  He is of counsel to the Manila-based Public Interest Law Center, and a member of the bars of the states of Montana, New York and New Jersey. 

His current research and teaching interests include mediation theory and practice, clinical teaching, and law and social change.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

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

The People Power Revolution of the Philippines, 1986, Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice (Gary L. Anderson & Kathryn Herr, Editors, Russell Sage, 2007).

Which Side Are You On? Unionization in Social Service Nonprofits, 9 New York City Law Review 373 (2006).