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America's Best Teaching Faculty

As an LL.M in American Law student, you have full access to BU Law's renowned, award-winning J.D. faculty.  The faculty represent several schools of legal thought, from law and economics to feminist legal theory, and they come from a range of legal backgrounds. Their wide-ranging scholarship includes leading texts in several important areas of law -- and many have authored the very textbooks which form the basis of classroom discussion.

Above all, they share a passion for teaching—eight have received the Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching, the highest award given each year to one of Boston University’s three thousand faculty members.

BU Law's faculty value the international perspectives that American Law Program students bring to the classroom.  And they understand the challenges foreign-trained lawyers face when they begin analyzing U.S. judicial opinions -- rather than codes -- and are asked to do so out loud.

Among the faculty who have engaged LL.M. in American Law students over the years are such noted scholars as:

Jack Beermann Harry Elwood Warren Scholar Professor of Law B.A. with distinction, University of Wisconsin J.D. with honors, University of Chicago Courses: Administrative Law; Introduction to American Law Bio Publications Stacey Dogan Law Alumni Scholar Professor of Law B.S. in Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology J.D., magna cum laude, Harvard Law School Courses: Property Law; Intellectual Property; Unfair Competition & Trademark Bio Keith Hylton The Honorable Paul J. Liacos Professor of Law Professor of Law B.A. magna cum laude, Harvard University J.D., Harvard University Ph.D. in Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Courses: Torts; Antitrust; International Competition Law Research Bio Publications Andrew Kull Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Law Professor of Law B.A., University of California-Berkeley B.A. and M.A., Oxford University J.D., University of Chicago Courses: Property Law; Contracts; Restitution & Unjust Enrichment Bio Publications Pnina Lahav Law Alumni Scholar Professor of Law LL.B. magna cum laude, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Law LL.M. and J.S.D., Yale University M.A. in Political Science, Boston University Courses: Constitutional Law; Constitution & Foreign Affairs; First Amendment Bio Publications Michael J. Meurer Abraham and Lillian Benton Scholar Professor of Law S.B. in Economics and Interdisciplinary Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology J.D. cum laude, University of Minnesota Ph.D. in Economics, University of Minnesota Courses: Patent Law; Telecommunications Law; Law & Economics Workshop Bio Publications Walter Miller Professor of Law A.B., Harvard College B.D., Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia J.D., State University of New York at Buffalo LL.M., Harvard University Certificate of Completion, Oxford University Courses: Contracts; Bankruptcy & Creditors’ Rights; Commercial Code; Commercial Law: Sales, Negotiable Instruments Bio Publications William Park R. Gordon Butler Scholar in International Law Professor of Law B.A., Yale University J.D., Columbia University M.A., University of Cambridge Courses: International Business Arbitration; International Taxation Bio Publications David Walker Maurice Poch Faculty Research Scholar Professor of Law B.E. summa cum laude, Vanderbilt University J.D. magna cum laude, Harvard University Courses: Corporations; Deals, Law & Economics Workshop Bio Publications