JD Program Faculty

  • Susan M. Akram
    Clinical Professor of Law
    Areas of interest: Immigration law, refugee law, domestic and international refugee advocacy
  • Marlene Alderman
    Director of the Pappas Law Library, Associate Professor of Law and Legal Research
  • George J. Annas
    Professor of Law; Chair and William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor, BU School of Public Health
    Areas of interest: Health law, bioethics
  • Michael S. Baram
    Professor Emeritus of Law
    Areas of interest: Environmental law, toxic torts, risk management, biotechnology law
  • Hugh Baxter
    Professor of Law, Professor of Philosophy
    Areas of interest: Legal and social philosophy, constitutional law and theory, election law, torts
  • Jack M. Beermann
    Harry Elwood Warren Scholar, Professor of Law
    Areas of interest: Civil rights, administrative law, federal courts, government and interest groups, local government law
  • David Breen
    Clinical Associate Professor of Law
    Areas of interest: Criminal law, trial advocacy, civil litigation
  • Khiara M. Bridges
    Associate Professor of Law, Associate Professor of Anthropology
    Areas of interest: Critical race theory, criminal law
  • Joseph F. Brodley
    Professor Emeritus of Law
    Areas of interest: Antitrust law, economic regulation of high-tech industries
  • Constance A. Browne
    Clinical Associate Professor of Law
    Areas of interest: Civil litigation, trial advocacy, legal writing
  • Robert G. Burdick
    Director, Civil Law Clinical Program; Clinical Associate Professor of Law
    Areas of interest: Civil law, negotiation, ethical decision making
  • Daniela Caruso
    Professor of Law
    Areas of interest: European Union law, contracts, disability and education law
  • Kent A. Coit
    Director, Transactional Law Program; Professor of the Practice of Law
    Areas of interest: Transactional law, law and business
  • Kristin Collins
    Peter Paul Development Professor, Professor of Law
    Areas of interest: Civil procedure, federal courts, federalism, family law and policy, gender and law, citizenship, legal history
  • Mary C. Connaughton
    Clinical Associate Professor of Law
    Areas of interest: Civil litigation, trial advocacy, evidence
  • Anna di Robilant
    Associate Professor of Law
    Areas of interest: Comparative law, European legal history, property
  • Judith E. Diamond
    Clinical Associate Professor of Law
    Areas of interest: Civil litigation, trial advocacy, family law
  • Stacey L. Dogan
    Law Alumni Scholar, Professor of Law
    Areas of interest: Intellectual property law, trademark law, copyright law
  • Lilian V. Faulhaber
    Associate Professor of Law
    Areas of interest: Federal income taxation and international taxation
  • Alan L. Feld
    Maurice Poch Faculty Research Scholar, Professor of Law
    Areas of interest: Tax law, corporate law, law and the arts, nonprofit organizations, energy law and policy
  • Stanley Z. Fisher
    Professor of Law
    Areas of interest: Criminal law and procedure, the role of police and prosecutors, prosecutorial ethics, wrongful convictions
  • James E. Fleming
    The Honorable Frank R. Kenison Distinguished Scholar in Law; Associate Dean, Research and Intellectual Life; Professor of Law
    Areas of interest: Constitutional law, constitutional theory, constitutional interpretation, political philosophy, law and philosophy, theories of democracy, torts, remedies
  • Tamar Frankel
    Michaels Faculty Research Scholar, Professor of Law
    Areas of interest: Financial system regulation, fiduciary law, corporate governance, the Internet
  • Leonard H. Glantz
    Professor of Law; Professor of Health Law, Bioethics & Human Rights, BU School of Public Health; Professor of Socio-Medical Sciences and Community Medicine, BU School of Medicine
    Area of interest: Public health law
  • Wendy J. Gordon
    William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor, Professor of Law
    Areas of interest: Copyright, trademark, unfair competition, legal theory, restitution, torts, law and economics
  • Ernest M. Haddad
    Associate Dean for Special Projects; Interim Director, Graduate Tax Program; Professor of Law
    Areas of interest: Nonprofit organizations, corporate governance, health law
  • Michael C. Harper
    Barreca Labor Relations Scholar, Professor of Law
    Areas of interest: Labor law, employment discrimination law, administrative law, civil procedure: sports law
  • Neil S. Hecht
    Director, Institute of Jewish Law; Professor Emeritus of Law
    Area of interest: Jewish law
  • Cornelius K. Hurley
    Director of the Boston University Center for Finance, Law & Policy; Senior Provost Fellow; Professor of the Practice of Banking Law
    Area of interest: Financial services
  • Keith N. Hylton
    The Honorable Paul J. Liacos Professor of Law; Professor of Law
    Areas of interest: Law and economics, litigation theory, antitrust, labor and employment, corporate law
  • Maria O’Brien Hylton
    Professor of Law
    Areas of interest: Employee benefits, insurance law, employment law
  • Wendy Kaplan
    Clinical Associate Professor of Law
    Areas of interest: Criminal law, juvenile justice
  • Sean J. Kealy
    Clinical Associate Professor of Law
    Areas of interest: Legislation and how the political system addresses various policy issues; federal and state constitutional law; criminal law and procedure
  • Lois H. Knight
    Director, Clinical and Trial Advocacy Programs; Clinical Professor of Law
    Areas of interest: Trial advocacy, civil litigation, legal ethics
  • Susan P. Koniak
    Professor of Law
    Areas of interest: Constitutional law, civil procedure, law and the ethics of lawyering
  • Andrew Kull
    Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Law, Professor of Law
    Areas of interest: Contracts, restitution, commercial law, property, constitutional law
  • Pnina Lahav
    Law Alumni Scholar, Professor of Law
    Areas of interest: Constitutional law, First Amendment jurisprudence, comparative law, political trials, judicial biography, foreign affairs
  • Gary S. Lawson
    Abraham & Lillian Benton Scholar; Associate Dean, Research; Professor of Law
    Areas of interest: Constitutional history, constitutional theory, administrative law, jurisprudence
  • Gerald F. Leonard
    Law Alumni Scholar, Professor of Law
    Areas of interest: American legal history, criminal law
  • Karen Pita Loor
    Clinical Associate Professor
    Areas of interest: Criminal law, international human rights
  • David B. Lyons
    Law Alumni Scholar; Professor of Law; Professor of Philosophy, BU College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
    Areas of interest: Jurisprudence, moral and political theory, race and the development of American law
  • Tracey Maclin
    Joseph Lipsitt Faculty Research Scholar, Professor of Law
    Areas of interest: Criminal procedure, constitutional law, constitutional theory
  • Wendy K. Mariner
    Professor of Law; Edward R. Utley Professor of Health Law, Bioethics & Human Rights, BU School of Public Health; Professor of Socio-Medical Sciences and Community Medicine, BU School of Medicine
    Areas of interest: Health law and reform legislation; patient rights; ERISA and managed care; public health law and risk regulation
  • Stephen Marks
    Professor of Law; Director of Academic Affairs, Executive LLM in International Business Law Program
    Areas of interest: Law and economics, corporate law, managerial economics, mergers and acquisitions
  • Linda C. McClain
    Paul M. Siskind Research Scholar, Professor of Law
    Areas of interest: Family law and policy, gender and law, feminist legal theory, civil society, political philosophy, property, reproductive issues, law and religion, welfare law, comparative law
  • Michael Meurer
    Abraham & Lillian Benton Scholar; Professor of Law
    Areas of interest: Intellectual property, patents, law and economics
  • Frances H. Miller
    Professor Emeritus of Law
    Areas of interest: Health law, trusts and estates
  • Walter W. Miller, Jr.
    Professor of Law
    Areas of interest: Bankruptcy, contracts, Uniform Commercial Code, securities regulation
  • Abigail R. Moncrieff
    Peter Paul Career Development Professor, Associate Professor of Law
    Areas of interest: Health care law, health care law and economics, structural constitutional law, legislation, administrative law
  • Nancy J. Moore
    Nancy E. Barton Scholar, Professor of Law
    Areas of interest: Law and ethics of lawyering, professional ethics, torts
  • Maureen A. O’Rourke
    Dean, Michaels Faculty Research Scholar, Professor of Law
    Areas of interest: Intellectual property law, commercial law
  • Kevin Outterson
    Associate Professor of Law; Associate Professor of Health Law, Bioethics & Human Rights, BU School of Public Health
    Areas of interest: Antibiotic resistance, global pharmaceutical markets, health disparities, corporate governance
  • William W. Park
    R. Gordon Butler Scholar in International Law, Professor of Law
    Areas of interest: International tax and finance, conflict of laws, interaction of law and religion
  • Mark Pettit, Jr.
    Professor of Law
    Areas of interest: Contracts, evidence, consumer law
  • David Rossman
    Director, Criminal Law Clinical Programs; Professor of Law
    Areas of interest: Criminal procedure, law and social science, criminal trial practice and professional responsibility
  • William E. Ryckman, Jr.
    Professor Emeritus of Law
    Areas of interest: Property law, land use, equity, federal court procedure
  • Robert B. Seidman
    Professor Emeritus of Law
    Areas of interest: Law and development, legislative drafting
  • David J. Seipp
    Law Alumni Scholar, Professor of Law
    Areas of interest: Legal history of all times and places, especially the earliest courtroom arguments in the common law tradition, as found in law reports of medieval England known as the Year Books
  • Katharine B. Silbaugh
    Law Alumni Scholar, Professor of Law
    Areas of interest: Work-family conflict, family law, employment law, domestic labor, women and the law
  • Kenneth W. Simons
    The Honorable Frank R. Kenison Distinguished Scholar in Law, Professor of Law
    Areas of interest: Torts, criminal law, constitutional law, moral and political philosophy
  • Theodore S. Sims
    Professor of Law
    Areas of interest: Federal taxation, tax policy, public finance
  • Robert D. Sloane
    Professor of Law
    Areas of interest: Public international law, the law of war, international legal theory and ethics, transnational criminal law, international investment law and arbitration, criminal law, international human rights law and policy, national security and foreign relations law, international business transactions
  • Frederick Tung
    Howard Zhang Faculty Research Scholar, Professor of Law
    Areas of interest: Corporations, securities regulation and bankruptcy
  • Robert D. Volk
    Director, First-Year Writing Program; Associate Professor of Legal Writing
    Areas of interest: Legal writing, gay and lesbian legal rights
  • David I. Walker
    Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Maurice Poch Faculty Research Scholar, Professor of Law
    Areas of interest: Taxation, corporations, corporate governance, executive compensation, law and economics
  • David H. Webber
    Associate Professor of Law
    Areas of interest: Securities regulation, securities class actions, empirical legal studies, shareholder rights, corporate governance, complex litigation, civil procedure
  • Jay D. Wexler
    Professor of Law
    Areas of interest: Law and religion, administrative law, constitutional law, environmental law, legislation, natural resources law
  • Larry Yackle
    Basil Yanakakis Faculty Research Scholar, Professor of Law
    Areas of interest: Constitutional law, federal courts, habeas corpus

JD Program Faculty Profiles