Law School Faculty & Staff Directory

David Abelman

Lecturer

David Abelman is an attorney, strategic business partner, and operations leader, with 35+ years of experience. David most recently served as Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer at DentaQuest, one of the nation’s largest oral health organizations. Prior to DentaQuest, David advanced through senior leadership and legal executive roles at Tufts Health Plan, a […]

Claire Bishop Abely

Director, Lawyering Program

Claire Abely is the Director of the Lawyering Program, where she has taught Lawyering Skills to 1L students full-time since the program’s inception in 2017. She also teaches Persuasive Writing and the Lawyering Fellows seminar. Claire is deeply involved in the public interest community at BU Law, serving as the advisor and faculty mentor for […]

Sean Ahern

Lecturer

Sean Ahern is a practicing legal services attorney and a BU Law Class of 2017 alumnus. Sean is currently a senior attorney at Greater Boston Legal Services and a part-time lecturer at BU Law. Sean has lectured in the LLM program since fall 2021, teaching courses in legal research & writing and courses in legal […]

Aziza Ahmed

Professor of Law

Aziza Ahmed’s scholarship examines the intersection of law, politics, and science in the fields of constitutional law, criminal law, health law, and family law. Before joining Boston University School of Law, Ahmed was professor of law at University of California, Irvine School of Law. She also taught at Northeastern University School of Law. She has […]

Zohra Ahmed

Associate Professor

Zohra Ahmed writes and teaches about the US carceral state and US militarism. She examines how law and political economy shape the distribution of state violence, and studies the social movements that have risen up to challenge criminalization and militarization. Her scholarship has been published or is forthcoming in the Columbia Law Review, UCLA Law […]

Richard Thompson Ainsworth

Adjunct Professor

Professor Ainsworth, who has taught in BU Law’s tax program since 2005, is a comparative tax law specialist. His teaching and scholarship interests are in comparative transfer pricing, comparative VAT, and comparative income tax. He brings extensive transfer pricing and VAT experience to the role of director. He has published over 100 articles on various […]

Susan M. Akram

Clinical Professor of Law

Professor Susan Akram directs BU Law’s International Human Rights Clinic, in which she supervises students engaged in international advocacy in domestic, international, regional, and UN fora. Her research and publications focus on immigration, asylum, refugee, forced migration, and human and civil rights issues, with an interest in the Middle East, the Arab, and Muslim world. […]

Richard Alm

CARB-X Alliance Director

Simona Altshuler

Lecturer

Simona Altshuler is an associate at Prince Lobel Tye LLP. As a member of the Business Transactions group, Ms. Altshuler advises and strategizes with various corporate clients, including corporations, partnerships, start-ups, and non-profits, on tax, corporate transactional, and corporate maintenance matters. Prior to Prince Lobel, Ms. Altshuler was a senior associate of Ernst & Young's […]

Donald Andrade

Lecturer

Ruth Appleby

CARB-X Alliance Manager

Luciana Aquino-Hagedorn

Lecturer

Brooke Arlington

Lecturer

Brooke Arlington received her B.A. magna cum laude in psychology from the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. She then moved to Tsu City, Japan to teach at a private English conversation school for one year. She taught students of all ages and abilities and travelled extensively within the country. Upon returning to […]

Emmanuel Hiram Arnaud

Associate Professor of Law

Emmanuel Hiram Arnaud is an Associate Professor of Law. His research focuses on the application of the federal constitution, criminal law and procedure in the territories of the United States, issues of criminal procedure broadly, and race and the law. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Columbia Law Review, Iowa Law Review, […]

Kerrin Arnold

Metadata Librarian

Kerrin Arnold joined the Fineman & Pappas Law Libraries in 2016 as a Collections Technician and was promoted to Metadata Librarian in 2021. She works to ensure that titles are discoverable in the library catalog.

Laura Atlee

Lecturer

Conrad Bahlke

Lecturer - Banking & Financial Law LLM

Conrad Bahlke is Counsel at the Charles Law Firm PLLC in New York City. He was previously Partner and Counsel at several prominent New York City-based international law firms and has held positions at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, D.C., and the Chicago Board of Trade. Mr. Bahlke’s practice focuses on derivative transactions and […]

David Ballou

Faculty and Administrative Services Manager

Mark Bamford

Lecturer

Cecily Banks

Director, Corporate Counsel Externship Program

Cecily Banks is a lecturer and director of the School of Law's Corporate Counsel Externship Program. Banks joined the faculty in 2017 to launch the law school's externship program devoted to corporate counsel placements. Through this program, BU law students train for academic credit in the in-house legal offices of corporations in Boston and beyond. Banks teaches […]

Michael S. Baram

Professor of Law Emeritus

Michael Baram is Professor of Law Emeritus at Boston University School of Law where he had served as Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Law & Technology, and held faculty appointments in the BU School of Public Health (Health Law Division) and BU Bioinformatics Department. He is also a Legal Volunteer at […]

Bradley M. Baranowski

Visiting Assistant Professor

Brad Baranowski (’20) holds a PhD in American history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a JD from Boston University School of Law. He previously clerked for the Honorable David A. Lowy of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and the Honorable Karen Nelson Moore of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Baranowski was a […]

Joseph Basile

Lecturer

Joseph Basile is managing director of Pari Passu M&A Mediation LLC, an independent specialist practice that focuses on mediating disputes arising from mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, and control and minority investment transactions. He also is regularly engaged as a consulting and testifying expert in M&A-related litigation. Before founding Pari Passu, Mr. Basile served as […]

Rebecca Bearden

Senior Continuing Resources Librarian

Rebecca (Becky) Bearden joined the Fineman & Pappas Law Libraries in July 2019. She is primarily responsible for managing the acquisition, access, maintenance, and preservation of continuing resources in all formats. She oversees and maintains all aspects of the serials lifecycle in our library management system. She works closely with colleagues to ensure efficient workflows […]

John A. Beccia

Lecturer

John Beccia is co-founder and CEO of FS Vector, a Washington DC-based advisory firm. FS Vector is a one stop resource for business, regulatory, compliance, technology and public policy advice. The firm’s clients include fintech firms, banks, blockchain companies, regtech providers, and investors. Mr. Beccia was previously general counsel and chief compliance officer of Circle […]

Russell Beck

Lecturer

Russell Beck is a founding partner at Beck Reed Riden LLP. He is a business and intellectual property litigator, nationally recognized for his trade secrets and noncompete experience, and has over twenty-five years of experience as a complex business and intellectual property litigator, representing corporate and individual clients throughout the country in federal and state trial […]

Jack M. Beermann

Philip S. Beck Professor of Law

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 […]

James Bessen

Lecturer

James Bessen, an economist and technologist, serves as Executive Director of the Technology & Policy Research Initiative at Boston University. He has also been a successful innovator and CEO of a software company. Bessen studies the major economic impacts of technology on society (see New York Times profile), writing academic papers, magazine articles, and books. His latest book, The […]

Aaron HC Black

Legal Information Librarian

Aaron Black joined the Fineman & Pappas Law Libraries in September 2024 as a Legal Information Librarian. As part of the reference and instructional team, Aaron assists with legal research and provides instructional support to students and faculty. Aaron earned a Master of Library and Information Science from the University of Washington's Information School, specializing […]

Mark Bluver

Lecturer

Mark H. Bluver joins Boston University School of Law’s faculty as a part-time Lecturer in the Compassionate Release Practicum. Mr. Bluver is currently a solo practitioner in the Law Office of Mark H. Bluver. He began his professional career as an associate at Cahill Gordon and Reindel, a national law firm based on Wall Street. While at Cahill, he […]

Linda Boardman

Academic Advising Fellow

Linda Boardman is a Postgraduate Fellow at Boston University School of Law, where she focuses on supporting and counseling students on course selection and practice readiness. Linda works with the Associate Dean of Academic Engagement on the development, implementation, and assessment of course selection plans that facilitate JD preparedness for multiple practice tracks. Linda also […]

Barbara Boehler

Lecturer

Isaac Borenstein

Lecturer

Judge Isaac Borenstein (ret.) has taught evidence, criminal law and procedure, and a number of other subjects, both part and full time at several law schools over the past 30+ years. During the 2018–19 academic year, he taught evidence in the fall and criminal procedure in the spring at Brooklyn Law School, where by student […]

Ronald S. Borod

Lecturer

Ronald S. Borod is a partner in DLA Piper's Corporate and Finance group. He has worked extensively in securitization and structured finance for almost two decades and established a reputation as a thought leader in the creation of innovative structures and financial products. Mr. Borod focuses his practice on the development and implementation of new […]

Linda E. Boucher

Accounts Coordinator

Linda Boucher joined the BU Law Library staff in 2000. As the Senior Accounts Coordinator, she is primarily responsible for the day-to-day financial transactions and record keeping necessary to maintain control of the law library's annual budget.

Thomas Brayton IV

Externship Program Manager

Wimala Breen

Assistant Director, American Law Program

Wimala Breen is the heart of our operations and serves as OGIP’s Assistant Director. As such, she oversees our registration processes and event planning. A native of Thailand, Wimala holds a Bachelor’s degree in Management Sciences from Prince of Songkla University. She immigrated to the United States in 2002. She joined OGIP in 2020 and […]

Larissa Brewster

Director for Graduate Career Advising and Outcomes

A magna cum laude graduate of Bentley University with a BS in Marketing and an MBA in Management and Financial Planning, Larissa pursued a law degree at Suffolk University to combine her business knowledge with her love of the law. During law school, Larissa gained experience interning and working as a student attorney in the […]

Sheila Bridges

Lecturer

Sheila has spent over a decade designing trusts and advising families on wealth planning. Sheila has graduate degrees from the University of Chicago Law School, Cornell University, and the University of Cambridge, and she teaches Wills, Trusts & Estates and Estate Planning at Boston University School of Law and Suffolk University Law School.

Heidi Brieger

Adjunct Professor

Elizabeth Brody Gluck

Lecturer

Ms. Brody Gluck began her legal career at Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo in Boston and practiced there for close to a decade. She then served as vice-president and legal counsel to Analysis Group Inc., an economic consulting firm in Boston, before moving back into private practice at Verrill Dana, where she served […]

Jade Brown

Clinical Associate Professor of Law

Professor Jade Brown (BU Law ’16), Clinical Associate Professor of Law, is the founder and Executive Director for the Consumer Economic Justice Clinic, which trains students to advocate for low-income clients who have been unjustly denied credit or who are facing unfair debt collection practices. In the Consumer Economic Justice Clinic, Professor Brown invites law […]

Constance A. Browne

Clinical Professor of Law

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 the clinical programs in 1989. As an associate professor in the Civil Litigation & Justice Program, she supervises students who represent clients in special education, unemployment, divorce, disability and housing […]

Emily Bruemmer

Associate Director for Judicial Clerkships and Private Sector Employment

Emily focuses on advising students interested in judicial clerkships and private sector employment opportunities. Emily graduated from Harvard University, receiving her A.B. magna cum laude with highest honors in History and East Asian Studies, and received her J.D. magna cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center. While in law school, she interned at the Federal […]

James Bryant

Lecturer

Laurie Burlingame

Lecturer

Laurie A. Burlingame is a partner at Morgan Lewis, where she has a diverse practice representing clients on a broad spectrum of transactions in the life sciences and technology industries, including initial and follow-on public offerings, venture capital financings, de-SPAC transactions, and mergers and acquisitions. She regularly serves as outside general counsel to clients, advising […]

Ed Buurman

CARB-X Alliance Director

Cecilia Cabello

Senior Program Coordinator, Operations and Judicial Clerkships

John Cahill

Director, Digital Strategy, & Marketing Operations

Maria Wilda Camero

Assistant Director, Financial Aid

Marni Goldstein Caputo

Senior Lecturer

Marni Goldstein Caputo is a Senior Lecturer in the Lawyering Program, where she has taught Lawyering Skills to 1L students full-time since the program’s inception in 2017. She also teaches Introduction to American Law to LL.M. students and a seminar on capital punishment in the United States. She has also taught as an adjunct at […]

Bridget Carney

Assistant Director, Project Management

Ethan Carr

Assistant Director for Employer Relations and Outcomes

Karen B. Carter

Assistant Director of Transactional Law Program

Since 2013, Karen Carter has served as the Assistant Director of the Transactional Law Program. She works with the Director of the Program to develop, and to modify and update, the curriculum for Contract Drafting, the Program’s foundational course. She also assists in the development of the Program’s capstone transaction simulation courses and works with […]

Daniela Caruso

Professor of Law Emerita

Professor Daniela Caruso teaches Contracts to first-year law students and an upper-class course on European Union Law. She also teaches a variety of law seminars and interdisciplinary courses, including a seminar on International Trade Regulation. Since January 2020, Professor Caruso has served as Director of the Center for the Study of Europe at the Frederick […]

Patrick Cento

Lecturer

Stephen Cesso

Lecturer

Steve is a lecturer for the course Governance, Compliance, Sanctions and Risk at Boston University School of Law, LLM Banking and Financial Law. Prior to retirement in 2025, Steve was Computershare’s U.S. General Counsel, Executive Director Corporate Trust and was on the Board of Directors Computershare Trust Company, N.A. and Computershare Delaware Trust Company. Computershare […]

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