Seth Reiner

Biography

Seth Reiner joins the Legal Writing and Advocacy Program as a Visiting Professor for the 2025/26 and 2026/27 academic years. Prior to joining Boston University, Professor Reiner worked as an associate at Foley Hoag LLP in their Boston office, where he represented clients in employment, healthcare, and attorneys general matters. As part of his practice, he litigated the constitutionality of several Massachusetts initiative petitions at the Supreme Judicial Court. For the past two years, in addition to his work at Foley Hoag, Professor Reiner worked as an adjunct professor at Suffolk University, teaching legal research and writing to Suffolk’s undergraduate pre-law students.

Professor Reiner’s research interests include direct democracy, education, and constitutional law. Specifically, state constitutional requirements for placing initiative petitions on state ballots and the appropriate guardrails on direct democracy. His research also focuses on the conflict between federal and state law. His article, Me Too? Incentivizing States to Adopt Consent-Based Sex Education, 12 NE. U.L. REV. 162 (2020), explores the constitutional restraints placed on the federal government by the Tenth Amendment in the field of education.

Professor Reiner graduated from Northeastern University School of Law in 2020, where he served as Managing Editor for the Law Review and a two-year Lawyering Fellow for the legal writing program. During law school, he also worked as a Graduate Resident Assistant for Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In addition to his J.D., he obtained his B.S. summa cum laude from Roger Williams University in 2017, where he was awarded the Zeno Prize and the Rodolphé-Louis Hébert Award for Excellence in Philosophy.