Civil rights are intended to ensure people’s physical and mental well being by providing protection from discrimination based on race, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, or disability.
Jack M. Beermann
Jack Beermann’s scholarship focuses on two areas: civil rights litigation and administrative law. He is an authority on the circumstances under which state and local officials, and local governments, should be held liable for their constitutional violations. “What particularly fascinates me is studying the values underlying our public law system and how social movements and history […]
Kristina Audrey Fried
Kristina Fried is a Lecturer in Law with the International Human Rights Clinic, where she supervises projects involving statelessness and refugee law. Her areas of expertise include international human rights law, public international law, reparatory justice, refugee law, and statelessness, with a focus on Haiti and the Middle East region. Her work has appeared in […]
Erika George
Erika R. George joined the BU Law faculty in 2024 as the associate dean for equity, justice, & engagement and the Ernest Haddad Faculty Scholar. A leading international expert in the emerging field of business and human rights, Professor George is the author of Incorporating Rights: Strategies to Advance Corporate Accountability (Oxford University Press 2021), which […]
Jasmine Gonzales Rose
Professor Jasmine Gonzales Rose is a leading critical evidence scholar whose research examines how race, racism, and antiracism are utilized and considered as sources of proof in litigation, as well as how juror language disenfranchisement systematically limits who can serve as factfinders. Rooted in critical race studies and drawing on epistemology, Professor Gonzales Rose employs […]
Sapna Khatri
Sapna Khatri is a reproductive justice attorney with an expertise in policy advocacy for reproductive health access and enhanced privacy protections. She serves the Executive Director of the BU Program on Reproductive Justice. Before joining BU Law, Sapna was the inaugural Director of the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Reproductive Justice Unit. Her work included expanding and […]
Linda C. McClain
Linda C. McClain is known for her work in family law, gender and law, and feminist legal theory. Her most recent book, Who’s the Bigot? Learning from Conflicts over Marriage and Civil Rights Law (Oxford University Press, 2020), argues that, although denouncing and preventing bigotry is a shared political value with a long history, people […]
Madeline H. Meth
Madeline (Maddie) Meth joined Boston University School of Law’s faculty in 2023 as a Clinical Associate Professor with the Civil Litigation & Justice Program. She was previously the Deputy Director of Georgetown Law’s Appellate Courts Immersion Clinic (ACIC) where she supervised students working on public-interest cases in federal and state courts of appeals and the […]
Angela Onwuachi-Willig
Angela Onwuachi-Willig is dean and Ryan Roth Gallo Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law. A renowned legal scholar and expert in critical race theory, employment discrimination, and family law, she joined the law school as dean in August 2018. Before joining the School of Law, Dean Onwuachi-Willig served as Chancellor’s Professor of Law […]
Portia Pedro
Portia Pedro, a former public interest litigation fellow who also worked as a litigation associate at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, joined the full-time faculty of Boston University School of Law as an associate professor in July 2018. She teaches civil procedure, remedies, and critical civil procedure. Professor Pedro studies the ways in which racial subordination […]
Ayodeji Kamau Perrin
Dr. Ayodeji Kamau Perrin, J.D., Ph.D., is an interdisciplinary scholar of human rights, social movements, and legal mobilization. He is interested in all phases of litigation-based social change processes, including the factors that lead aggrieved individuals and groups to select a litigation-based strategy; the internal dynamics of a social change movement or campaign; countermobilization; the […]