THE SUMMER LEGAL INSTITUTE IN LONDON
Participating Faculty
Among the anticipated instructors in summer 2010 are such noted faculty as:
Professor Robert Volk
Legal Writing
As BU Law's director of the Legal Research and Writing Program, Professor Volk is responsible for developing the curriculum for one of America's most highly acclaimed legal writing programs and overseeing the writing program for BU Law's foreign LL.M. students. A member of the faculty since 1982, he also has served as associate director of the Morin Center for Banking and Financial Law and has taught courses in banking law, law and morality and the American legal system. View Professor Volk's CV and publications.
Professor David Walker
U.S. Corporate Law
David Walker joined the faculty of BU Law in the fall of 2002. He teaches courses in corporations, taxation, executive compensation and law and economics, and his research and writing reflect those interests. Recent projects include “The Manager’s Share,” published in the William and Mary Law Review and “Is Equity Compensation Tax Advantaged?” published in the Boston University Law Review. Professor Walker is a 1998 graduate of Harvard Law School and a recipient of the School’s John M. Olin Prize in Law and Economics. Upon graduation, he clerked for Judge Karen Nelson Moore of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and then returned to Harvard Law School for a year as an Olin Fellow. Immediately prior to his arrival at BU Law, Professor Walker was an associate in the tax department at Ropes & Gray, where he had a general tax practice with an emphasis on executive compensation. Before attending law school, Professor Walker enjoyed an interesting and varied career in the oil industry that included roles as a chemical engineer, crude oil trader and assistant to the president of BP Oil Company, the U.S. arm of British Petroleum.
Professor Virginia Greiman
International Business Agreements
Professor Greiman is a nationally-recognized expert on corporate reorganizations, 
privatization, international commercial contracting and international joint venture law. She has served as special assistant to the attorney general and United States trustee for the U.S. Department of Justice, as international legal counsel to the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and the U.S. Trade Development Agency. As chief counsel and executive director to the Massachusetts Office of Economic Development, Professor Greiman presently advises minority and women-owned businesses on international business transactions and Massachusetts corporations on foreign direct investment opportunities. View Professor Greiman's CV.
Professor Ward Farnsworth
U.S. Civil Procedure & U.S. Contract Law
Since joining BU Law in 1997, Professor Farnsworth has taught civil procedure, contracts, tort law and rhetoric. After graduating from the University of Chicago, he worked as a law clerk to Richard A. Posner, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and to Anthony M. Kennedy, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. In 1996, he served as a legal adviser to the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal in The Hague. The University of Chicago press recently published Professor Farnsworth’s book, The Legal Analyst, a wide-ranging guide to intellectual tools for thinking about legal questions. He is also the author of a book about rhetoric that will be published in early 2009 and a treatise on chess that is available on the Internet.
Michael Feldman
Legal English
Michael Feldman is a senior lecturer at Boston University's Center for English Language and Orientation Programs (CELOP), where he teaches English to international M.B.A and LL.M. candidates. He holds an A.B. degree Psychology and Social Relations and an M.S. degree in Education. Mr. Feldman spent several years in Ecuador, where he founded the English Language department at Universidad Espiritu Santo (UEES) in Guayaquil. He also spent ten years living in Peru and has extensive knowledge of South American countries and culture.
Lynn Bonesteel
Ms. Bonesteel is currently a senior lecturer in English as a Second Language at the Center for English Language and Orientation Programs (CELOP) at Boston University, where she teaches Legal English to both pre-LLM candidates and legal practitioners She has extensive experience as a teacher in higher education and as a writer of ESL textbooks and teachers’ manuals. Ms. Bonesteel has also written materials for the Program for Legal English Academic Development (PLEAD), an online academic program designed to help university law faculties and language schools throughout the world offer Legal English training to lawyers and law students.
Professor Constance Brown
Constance Browne came to Boston University School of Law in 1982 as an instructor in the First-Year Writing Program and joined the full-time faculty of Clinical Programs in 1989. As an associate professor in the Civil Litigation Program, she supervises students who represent clients in special education, unemployment, divorce, disability and housing cases. She also teaches courses in lawyering skills, helping students to develop and polish their interviewing, counseling, negotiating and trial advocacy abilities. In addition to teaching in the clinical program, Professor Browne offers an advanced writing and editing seminar and a seminar in trial advocacy. She helped initiate the Student Trial Team Program and served as a faculty advisor for the School of Law’s Public Interest Law Journal from the publication’s inception until 1995. View Professor Brown's bio.
Professor Mark Pettit
A dedicated member of the Boston University School of Law faculty since 1977, Mark 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. View Professor Pettit's CV and bio.
A full-time on-site Administrative Director will be present for the duration of the program to organize optional excursions to legal institutions and to assist with any problems or concerns.
