Faculty
The program's instructors consist of BU Law's regular teaching faculty - the faculty named #1 in America in The Princeton Review and #1 in America in The Leiter Report on Law School Rankings. These are the same acclaimed professors who teach in the school's J.D. curriculum. Among the anticipated instructors are:
- Virginia A. Greiman
- Michael K. Krebs
- Stephen Marks
- Michael Meurer
- Philip D. O'Neill, Jr
- Kevin Outterson
- Mark Pettit, Jr.
- Tina L. Stark
- Raymond Wilson
Virginia A. Greiman, Lecturer in Law
Subject: International Business Transactions and Agreements
B.S., Pennsylvania State University
M.Ed., Boston University
Sloan School of Management Fellowship, MIT
J.D., Suffolk University Law School
LL.M., Boston University School of Law
Professor Greiman has more than 20 years of experience in international law and international development, and is a recognized expert on international contracting, mega project finance, legal reform, privatization, foreign direct investment and corporate reorganizations. She is presently an Assistant Professor at Boston University where she teaches international development and project finance and international business transactions, and she teaches trial advocacy at Harvard Law School. She lectures internationally and publishes extensively in the areas of international business transactions, project finance, commercial investment arbitration and dispute resolution, cybercrime and international regulation and reform.
Prior to entering academia, she served as international legal counsel to the US Department of State, the US Agency for International Development, and the World Bank in Eastern and Central Europe, Asia and Africa on privatization, infrastructure development and legal reform projects. She recently served as Chief of Party for a State Department Delegation to Liberia on post-conflict reconstruction and institutional reform. She has held several high level federal and state positions including Deputy Chief Legal Counsel to Boston's $14.7 billion Central Artery/Tunnel Project, United States Trustee to the U.S. Department of Justice for the first and fourth circuits where she managed the successful reorganizations of Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant and the Bank of New England, the first bank holding company to file for chapter 11 relief, and she served as Deputy Director and General Counsel to the Massachusetts Department of Economic Development where she assisted international businesses in foreign direct investment.
Michael K. Krebs, Lecturer in Law
Subject: U.S. and Trans-Border Securities Regulation
B.A., cum laude, University of Pennsylvania
J.D.,cum laude, Boston University School of Law
Mr. Krebs' areas of expertise are complex mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance. A partner in the law firm of Nutter, McClennen & Fish, he is co-chair of the firm's Banking and Financial Services group. He serves as corporate and regulatory counsel to a variety of banks, savings institutions, insurance companies, and other financial institutions, and has represented clients before various federal and state regulatory agencies, including the Federal Reserve Board, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Massachusetts Division of Banks, the New Hampshire Banking Department, and the California Department of Financial Institutions. He is associated with BU Law's LL.M. in Banking Financial Law, where he teaches federal securities law, as well as the Executive LL.M. in International Business Law.
Stephen Marks, Professor of Law, Director of Academic Affairs, Executive LL.M. in International Business Law Program
Subject: U.S. and Trans-Border Mergers and Acquisitions
B.A. magna cum laude, University of California, Irvine
J.D., Ph.D. in Economics, University of California, Berkeley
Professor Marks has been a distinguished member of the Boston University community for many years. He began his teaching career in 1981 at the University's School of Management, where he taught courses in banking, finance, investments, corporations, economics and decision-making. Since joining the School of Law faculty in 1988, Professor Marks has taught courses in corporations, securities regulation and law and economics. Co-author of the textbook Managerial Economics (fourth edition), published in 2002, Professor Marks' work has appeared widely in journals of law and economics. In collaboration with his School of Law colleague Alan Feld, he wrote the 1997 article "Legal Differences Without Economic Distinctions: Points, Penalties, and the Market for Mortgages," for the Boston University Law Review. In 1996, he co-authored "Teaching Macroeconomics by the Case Method" for the Journal of Economic Education. He also authored the chapter "The Separation of Ownership and Control" for the 1998 Encyclopedia of Law and Economics. Since 2009 he has served as academic director of the Executive LL.M. Program in International Business Law.
Philip D. O'Neill, Jr., Lecturer in Law
Subject: International Arbitration
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Philip D. O'Neill, Jr. is an international lawyer, arbitrator and educator. He is a partner at Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge, where his global legal practice has included adjudicating billions of dollars in cross-border commercial claims. Repeatedly, he has been listed in the International Arbitration section of The Best Lawyers in America. An adjunct law professor for over two decades, he currently teaches seminars at Boston University and Boston College Law Schools on International Arbitration. Mr. O’Neill also previously taught International Arbitration at Harvard Law School, and International Business Transactions at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. The author of two books published by Oxford University Press, Mr. O’Neill also has authored five book chapters and sixteen legal journal articles. The American Arbitration Association includes two of his chapters in the Association’s current handbooks on international and domestic commercial arbitration.
Kevin Outterson, Associate Professor of Law
Subject: U.S. Corporate Law for the International Lawyer
B.S., Northwestern University
J.D., Northwestern University
University of Reading, Rotary Scholar
LL.M., University of Cambridge
Professor Outterson teaches corporations at BU Law, both in the J.D. program and in the school's Summer Legal Institute in London. Much of his scholarship focuses on the pharmaceutical industry and bridging the gap between drug companies and low-income populations. He publishes in both legal journals (Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law & Ethics, Cardozo Law Review, University of Pittsburgh Law Review, Kansas Law Review, American Journal of Law & Medicine) and peer-reviewed medical and health policy journals (Health Affairs, Lancet Infectious Diseases, Environmental Philosophy, Medical Journal of Australia, Journal of Generic Medicines). He has contributed to four recent academic press books edited by leading global scholars.
Professor Outterson has testified on pharmaceutical marketing issues before legislative and regulatory bodies in several states, including West Virginia, Massachusetts, Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire and the District of Columbia. At the federal level, he has testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, & Pensions on global drug pricing, and he has submitted testimony to USTR regarding compulsory licensing of drugs by Brazil and Thailand. Professor Outterson recently served as a speaker on global pharmaceutical intellectual property issues for WIPO and WHO. His other academic work focuses on health disparities, especially racial and linguistic disparities in health. His academic papers can be found at www.ssrn.com . Professor Outterson's background is also grounded in the realities of legal practice, as an associate and then a partner in two major U.S. law firms for more than a decade before joining Boston University. His practice included health care transactions domestically, as well as tax and corporate issues for nonprofit health systems and international businesses. He has served as an expert witness in corporate governance issues in state and federal court, defending depositions and testifying at trial.
Michael Meurer, Professor of Law
Subject: U.S. and International Intellectual Property
Abraham and Lillian Benton Scholar
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
The son of an economics professor, Michael Meurer knew by the time he was 13 that he, too, wanted to teach at the university level. An S.B., J.D. and Ph.D. later, he became an economics professor at Duke University and later a law professor at the University of Buffalo. He came to Boston University School of Law in 1999, where he has taught courses in patents, intellectual property and public policy toward the high-tech industry. "It's a special privilege to be able to speak three times a week to an attentive and thoughtful audience," he says.
Professor Meurer has received several grants and fellowships, including two grants from the Pew Charitable Trust, a Ford Foundation grant, an Olin Faculty Fellowship at Yale Law School and a postdoctoral fellowship at AT&T Bell Labs. He has served as an expert witness for the Federal Trade Commission on a merger case presenting issues related to patent licensing. He also has consulted with government officials from developing countries about antitrust law, and taught short courses in American intellectual property law at the law faculties of the University of Victoria and the National University of Singapore. "I'm excited by the prospect of having a positive influence on American technology law and policy," Professor Meurer says. Outside of work, he enjoys playing and watching basketball.
Mark Pettit, Jr., Professor of Law
Subject: U.S. Contract Law for International Lawyers
A.B. summa cum laude, Bowdoin College
J.D., University of Chicago Law School
A dedicated member of the Boston University School of Law faculty since 1977, Professor Pettit has taught thousands of law students in the areas of contracts, evidence and consumer law, and has twice served as associate dean for administration. He was a 1993 recipient of the Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching, the highest honor for faculty at Boston University. Among Professor Pettit's recent publications are "Freedom, Freedom of Contract, and the 'Rise and Fall,'" for the Boston University Law Review and an essay on teaching contracts in the St. Louis University Law Journal. He also is a former executive editor of the University of Chicago Law Review. His career includes serving as an associate at the New York City law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore and a clinical fellow and staff attorney for the Mandel Legal Aid Clinic at the University of Chicago. He was a visiting professor at Harvard Law School in fall 1999 and spring 2001, and has also taught contracts in BU's Summer Legal Institute in London.
Tina L. Stark, Professor of the Practice of Law, Director of Transactional Law Program
Subject: U.S. Contract Law for International Lawyers
A.B., with honors, Brown University
J.D., New York University School of Law
Before joining Boston University in July 2011, Professor Stark was at Emory University School of Law, where she was a Professor in the Practice of Law and the executive director of that school's Center for Transactional Law and Practice. While there, she created an integrated transactional skills curriculum designed to graduate students with both a doctrinal foundation and the skills to provide value to an employer beginning on Day One.
Professor Stark is a former corporate partner at Chadbourne & Parke LLP. While at Chadbourne, she had a broad-based transactional practice, including acquisitions, dispositions, recapitalizations and financings. In addition, she developed and implemented the firm's corporate training program.
Her teaching emphasizes the relationship between law and business, and draws upon her experience as a corporate partner at Chadbourne and as a commercial banker at Irving Trust Company. She has lectured on law and business issues at programs in the United States, Canada, England, Italy, China and Poland. Professor Stark was previously an adjunct professor at Fordham Law School, where she taught a seminar on drafting commercial agreements, a simulation course on transactional skills and a course on business. Professor Stark began teaching at Fordham in 1993.
Professor Stark received her A.B., with honors, from Brown University and her J.D. from New York University School of Law, where she was a contributing editor to the Journal of International Law & Politics. After law school, Professor Stark clerked for Judge Jacob D. Fuchsberg of the New York State Court of Appeals and was an associate with Barrett Smith Schapiro Simon & Armstrong.
Professor Stark is the editor-in-chief and co-author of Negotiating and Drafting Contract Boilerplate, publisher, American Lawyer Media (2003). Her contract drafting textbook, Drafting Contracts: How and Why Lawyers Do What They Do, was published in June 2007, and her related treatise, A Handbook on Drafting Contracts, is to be published in 2012.
Raymond Wilson, Lecturer in Law
Subject: Corporate Finance with U.S. and International Reporting
B.S., magna cum laude, Merrimack College
MBA, with distinction, Bentley College
Since 2001, Mr. Wilson has served as an adjunct faculty member at Boston University, including at the School of Management, the School of Law, and the College of Engineering's Graduate Distance Learning Program. For the past eight years, he has been a partner at BWRE, an investment company located in Exeter, NH. Prior to that, he was a partner at APOGEE group (2001-2005), chief financial officer and co-founder of Protocol Marketing Group (1997-2001), vice president for Marketing and Business Operations and other roles at Scitex America (1985-1996), and was director of Finance and Administration at Lexidata Corporation, where he worked from 1979-1985. He has taught a number of undergraduate and graduate-level courses, including Financial Accounting, Managerial Accounting, Financial Reporting and Control, Principles of Accounting, and Financial Management.