Sean Kealy

Sean Kealy is a clinical professor of law at Boston University’s School of Law, where his research and teaching focus on the legislative process and how legislative systems address policy issues at the local, state, and federal levels. He graduated from Temple Law School in 1994. He served as an assistant attorney general from 1995 to 1999, where he handled victim compensation claims and prosecuted insurance fraud. From 1999-2007, he worked as legal advisor to State Senator Cynthia Stone Creem (D-Newton) and counsel to the General Court’s Joint Committee on Criminal Justice and the Joint Committee on Revenue. While working for the Legislature, Professor Kealy had the opportunity to work on many notable issues, such as the revised sex offender registry, the creation of buffer zones around reproductive health clinics, drunk driving legislation, modernizing corporate tax laws, creating new tax credits to encourage economic development, legalizing and encouraging stem cell research, and ensuring equal marriage rights.

Professor Kealy has taught criminal justice at Massachusetts Bay Community College and Suffolk University and has written law review articles on a variety of topics dealing with statutory changes to protect victims’ rights, improve the definition of murder, and revise the Federal Posse Comitatus Act. He also co-edits a bi-monthly newsletter on recent developments in criminal law, which is distributed to prosecutors, law enforcement officials, defense attorneys, and academics.