LLM Program Faculty
American Law
The courses in the LLM in American Law program are taught by JD program faculty.
Intellectual Property Law
- Michael S. Baram
Professor Emeritus of Law; Professor of Health Law, BU School of Public Health
BS, Tufts University; LLB, Columbia University School of Law - Stacey L. Dogan
Law Alumni Scholar, Professor of Law
BS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; JD, magna cum laude, Harvard Law School - Alan L. Feld
Maurice Poch Faculty Research Scholar, Professor of Law
BA, magna cum laude, Columbia University; JD, cum laude, Harvard Law School - Tamar Frankel
Michaels Faculty Research Scholar, Professor of Law
LLM, SJD, Harvard Law School; Diploma, Jerusalem Law Classes, Israel - Wendy J. Gordon
William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor, Professor of Law
BA with distinction, Cornell University; JD, University of Pennsylvania Law School - Keith N. Hylton
Honorable Paul J. Liacos Professor of Law
BA, magna cum laude, Harvard University; JD, Harvard Law School; PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Michael J. Meurer
Abraham & Lillian Benton Scholar; Professor of Law
SB, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; JD, cum laude, PhD, University of Minnesota - Maureen A. O’Rourke
School of Law Dean, Michaels Faculty Research Scholar, Professor of Law
BS, summa cum laude, Marist College; JD, Yale Law School - Kevin Outterson
Associate Professor of Law
BS, JD, Northwestern University; LLM, University of Cambridge - David J. Seipp
Law Alumni Scholar, Professor of Law
AB, summa cum laude, Harvard University; BA, University of Oxford; LLB, first-class honors, University of Cambridge; JD, magna cum laude, Harvard Law School
Adjunct/Part-Time Faculty
- Russell Beck
Founding Partner, Beck Reed Riden - James Bessen
Director and Founder, Research on Innovation - Jeffrey P. Donohue
Corporate Counsel, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research - Lisa N. Geller
Associate, WilmerHale - Jerrold G. Neef
Principal, The Bostonian Law Group - Robert Plotkin
Attorney, Robert Plotkin, PC - Lior Zemer
Lecturer in Law, Radzyner School of Law, Interdisciplinary Centre
Research Associate, European & International Research Unit, Ghent University
Graduate Program in Banking & Financial Law
- John A. Beccia III
Lecturer in Law
BA, Providence College; JD, Roger Williams University; LLM in Banking Law Studies, Boston University
Senior Vice President and Assistant General Counsel, Boston Private Wealth Management Group - Ronald S. Borod
Lecturer in Law
BA, Princeton University; JD, Harvard University; LLM, New York University
Partner, DLA Piper LLP - Grant F. Butler
Lecturer in Law
BS, BA, University of Kansas; JD, LLM Banking & Financial Law, Boston University
Associate, Goodwin Procter LLP - Stephen Cesso
Lecturer in Law
BA, University of Massachusetts; JD, New England School of Law; LLM in American Banking Law Studies, Boston University
Corporate Secretary and U.S. General Counsel, Computershare - Patrick E. Clancy
Lecturer in Law
BA, College of the Holy Cross; JD, Harvard University
President and Chief Executive Officer, The Community Builders Inc. (retired) - Albert S. Dandridge III
Lecturer in Law
BA, JD, Temple University; LLM, University of Pennsylvania
Partner, Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP - Elisabeth A. Ditomassi
Lecturer in Law
BA, Tufts University; JD, Boston University
Head of U.S. Compliance and Regulatory Affairs, Beazley Insurance Company - Anne P. Dowd
Lecturer in Law
BA, Holy Cross College; JD, Boston College; LLM in American Banking Law Studies, Boston University
Associate General Counsel, Bank of America - Stuart Fross
Lecturer in Law
AB, Middlebury College, cum laude; JD, University of Chicago
Partner, K&L Gates LLP - Mark K. W. Gim
Lecturer in Law
BA, Brown University; MA, London School of Economics
Executive Vice President and Treasurer, The Washington Trust Company - Richard A. Goldman
Lecturer in Law
BBA, University of Massachusetts; JD, University of Virginia
Partner, Bingham McCutchen LLP - Eric J. Gouvin
Lecturer in Law
BA, Cornell University; JD, LLM American Banking Law, Boston University; MPA, Harvard University
Professor of Law, Western New England University School of Law - Raymond A. Guenter
Lecturer in Law
BA, Syracuse University; LLB, Harvard University
Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Shawmut National Corporation (retired) - Kevin J. Handly
Lecturer in Law
BSFS, Georgetown University; JD, Georgetown University
Partner, Pierce Atwood LLP - Michael J. Haroz
Lecturer in Law
BA, Princeton University; JD, Harvard University
Director, Goulston & Storrs - Cornelius K. Hurley
Professor of the Practice of Banking Law
BA, Holy Cross College; JD, Georgetown University Law Center; PMD, Harvard Business School
Director, Boston University Center for Finance, Law & Policy - Norman H. Knickle
Lecturer in Law
BA, University of Rhode Island; JD, Quinnipiac University School of Law; LLM Banking & Financial Law, Boston University
Attorney-Adviser, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission - Martin A. Lacdao
Associate Director, Graduate Program in Banking & Financial Law
BS, Ateneo de Manila University; LLB, University of the Philippines; LLM in Banking & Financial Law, Boston University - Steven B. Levine
Lecturer in Law
AB, Harvard University; JD, Harvard University; LLM in Taxation, Boston University
Partner, Brown Rudnick LLP - Eugene F. Maloney
Lecturer in Law
BA, Holy Cross College; JD, Fordham University
Director, Executive Vice President and Corporate Counsel, Federated Investors, Inc. - Francis C. Morrissey
Lecturer in Law
BA, University of Massachusetts; JD, Boston University
Partner, Morrissey, Wilson & Zafiropoulos LLP - William W. Park
R. Gordon Butler Scholar in International Law, Professor of Law
BA, Yale University; JD, Columbia University; MA, Cambridge University
President, London Court of International Arbitration - Kathleen M. Phelps
Lecturer in Law
BA, University of Iowa; JD, MSFS, Georgetown University
Of Counsel, Bingham McCutchen LLP - Kevin Saunders
Lecturer in Law
BA, MA, Arkansas State University; JD, Boston University
Associate General Counsel, ACCION International - Edwin E. Smith
Lecturer in Law
BA, Yale University; JD, Harvard University
Partner, Bingham McCutchen LLP - William Straus
Lecturer in Law
BA, Middlebury College; JD, Georgetown University; MPA, Harvard Kennedy School
Massachusetts State Representative, Tenth Bristol District - Donald F. Terry
Lecturer in Law
BA, Yale University; JD, University of California, Berkeley
Manager of the Multilateral Investment Fund, Inter-American Development Bank (retired) - Carolina Trujillo
Lecturer in Law
LLB, Universidad Catolica Andrés Bello; LLM Banking & Financial Law, Boston University
Residential Loan Officer, Eastern Bank - Lawrence Uchill
Lecturer in Law
AB, Brandeis University; JD, Boston University
Partner, DLA Piper LLP - John T. Wallace
Lecturer in Law
BA, College of the Holy Cross; JD, Suffolk Law School; LLM in Banking Law Studies, Boston University
Assistant Vice President & Senior Counsel, John Hancock Financial Services, Inc. - Ian M. Wenniger
Lecturer in Law
BA, JD, Columbia University
Partner, Bingham McCutchen LLP
Graduate Tax Law
- Richard T. Ainsworth
Lecturer in Law
BBA, Boston College; JD, Suffolk University; LLM in Taxation, Boston University
Director of International Government Affairs for ADP-Taxware, Inc. - Martin S. Allen
Adjunct Professor of Law
BA, with honors, Northwestern University; JD, Columbia University
Partner in the Boston office of K&L Gates LLP - Daniel M. Berman
Adjunct Professor of Law
AB, magna cum laude, JD, cum laude, Harvard University - David B. Casten
Adjunct Professor of Law
BA, Queens College (CUNY); JD, LLM in Taxation, Boston University
Of Counsel, Holden & O’Brien, Inc., Providence, RI; Retired Northeast Area
Tax Risk Management Partner at KPMG LLP - Leo J. Cushing
Lecturer in Law
BS, University of Notre Dame; JD, cum laude, New England School of Law; LLM in Taxation, Boston University
Founding Partner, Cushing & Dolan, PC, Attorneys at Law - Joseph B. Darby, III
Lecturer in Law
BS, magna cum laude, University of Illinois; JD, cum laude, Harvard University
Head of the tax department in the Boston office of Greenberg Traurig LLP - Jeremiah W. Doyle IV
Lecturer in Law
BS, Providence College; JD, Hamline University; LLM in Banking & Financial Law, LLM in Taxation, Boston University
Senior Vice President, BNY Mellon Wealth Management - Lilian V. Faulhaber
Associate Professor of Law
AB, magna cum laude, Harvard College; MPhil, Cambridge University; JD, cum laude, Harvard University - Alan L. Feld
Maurice Poch Faculty Research Scholar, Professor of Law
BA, magna cum laude, Columbia University; JD, cum laude, Harvard University - Robert M. Finkel
Adjunct Professor of Law
BA, cum laude, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; JD, LLM in Taxation, Boston University
Member of the law firm of Morse, Barnes-Brown & Pendleton, PC - Stephen D. Fisher
Lecturer in Law
BA, with distinction, Swarthmore College; JD, cum laude, Harvard University; LLM in Taxation, Boston University
Tax Principal in the Boston office of Ernst & Young LLP - Russell A. Gaudreau, Jr.
Adjunct Professor of Law
BBA, University of Massachusetts; JD, cum laude, Suffolk University; LLM in Taxation, New York University
Partner at Wagner Law Group in Boston - Natascha S. George
Lecturer in Law
BA, University of Missouri, Kansas City; MPH, JD, Boston University
Partner in the Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Group at Bingham McCutchen LLP in Boston - David H. Halpert
Adjunct Professor of Law
AB, magna cum laude, University of Michigan; JD, cum laude, Harvard University; LLM in Taxation, Boston University
Partner in the Boston office of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, PC - Patricia J. Jabar
Adjunct Professor of Law
BA, McGill University; MBA, University of Maine; JD, cum laude, New England School of Law; LLM in Taxation, Boston University
Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, based in Boston - Melissa Langa
Adjunct Professor of Law
BA, Rutgers University; JD, American University; LLM in Taxation, Boston University
Shareholder, the Boston law firm of Bove & Langa, PC - Avi M. Lev
Lecturer in Law
BA, magna cum laude, University of California, Los Angeles; JD, University of Oregon; LLM in Taxation, Boston University
Partner in the Boston office of Hinckley, Allen & Snyder LLP - Charles W. Maurer, Jr.
Adjunct Professor of Law
BS, Iowa State University; JD, Harvard University
Attorney with the Internal Revenue Service Office of the Chief Counsel in Boston - Harry S. Miller
Lecturer in Law
BA, Johns Hopkins University; JD, LLM in Taxation, Boston University
Partner in the Boston office of Burns & Levinson LLP - Jeremiah J. O’Sullivan
Lecturer in Law
BS, Bentley College; JD, New England School of Law
Attorney with Peter L. Banis, PC - William W. Park
R. Gordon Butler Scholar in International Law, Professor of Law
BA, Yale University; JD, Columbia University; MA, University of Cambridge - Brainard L. Patton
Adjunct Professor of Law
BSBA, University of Tennessee; JD, Boston University
Attorney - Thomas E. Peckham
Lecturer in Law
BA, Brown University; JD, LLM in Taxation, Boston University
Partner in the Boston office of Bingham McCutchen LLP; head of the Estate Planning Group - Ameek A. Ponda
Adjunct Professor of Law
BA, summa cum laude, JD, magna cum laude, Harvard University; LLM in Taxation, Valedictorian, Boston University
Partner and Co-director of Sullivan & Worcester’s Tax Department in the firm’s Boston office - Phillip G. Roshak
Lecturer in Law
BS, Drexel University; MS in Taxation, Bentley College
Partner in the Boston office of Ernst & Young LLP - Matthew D. Schnall
Lecturer in Law
AB, magna cum laude, JD, cum laude, Harvard University
Partner in the Boston office of Bingham McCutchen LLP - Theodore S. Sims
Professor of Law
AB, Columbia University; JD, cum laude, University of Chicago; PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Wayne E. Smith
Lecturer in Law
BSBA, magna cum laude, JD, cum laude, Suffolk University; LLM in Taxation, Boston University
Firm Director with Deloitte & Touche Tax LLP and a Tax Practice Leader in its Tech-Venture Center - Douglas S. Stransky
Lecturer in Law
BA, cum laude, Harvard University; JD, cum laude, LLM in Taxation, University of Miami
International Tax Partner, Sullivan & Worcester LLP - David I. Walker
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Maurice Poch Faculty Research Scholar, Professor of Law
BE, summa cum laude, Vanderbilt University; JD, magna cum laude, Harvard University - Charles A. Wry, Jr.
Adjunct Professor of Law
BS, Cornell University; JD, Boston College; LLM in Taxation, New York University
Stockholder and Director of Morse, Barnes-Brown & Pendleton, PC
International Business Law
- Virginia A. Greiman
Lecturer in Law
BS, Pennsylvania State University; MEd, Boston University; Sloan School of Management Fellowship, MIT; JD, Suffolk University Law School; LLM, Boston University School of Law - Michael K. Krebs
Lecturer in Law
BA, cum laude, University of Pennsylvania; JD, cum laude, Boston University School of Law - Stephen Marks
Professor of Law, Director of Academic Affairs, Executive LLM in International Business Law Program
BA, magna cum laude, University of California, Irvine; JD, PhD in Economics, University of California, Berkeley - Kevin Outterson
Associate Professor of Law
BS, JD, Northwestern University; LLM, University of Cambridge - Mark Pettit, Jr.
Professor of Law
AB, summa cum laude, Bowdoin College; JD, University of Chicago Law School - Raymond Wilson
Lecturer in Law
BS, magna cum laude, Merrimack College; MBA, with distinction, Bentley College
