Faculty Profiles

Scott Hirst

Professor of Law

Scott Hirst joined Boston University School of law as an associate professor in 2018. His research seeks to explain phenomena in corporate law, securities regulation, and related areas, and to inform policy making on these subjects. His work combines empirical methods and conceptual analyses from finance, accounting, and economics, with close attention to the institutional […]

Erica Hitchings

Lecturer of Law

Erica Blachman Hitchings is a member of the Whistleblower Law Collaborative LLC where she represents in matters involving violations of the federal and state False Claims Acts as well as violations of laws regulating securities, taxes, commodities and futures, customs tariffs and duties, foreign practices, and the banking industry. Prior to joining the Whistleblower Law […]

Ben Hoerner

Lecturer

Ben Hoerner focuses his practice on labor and employment matters, general litigation issues, as well as other healthcare-related matters. Ben currently works as an attorney at Boston Children’s Hospital. Prior to joining Boston Children’s Hospital, Ben was a labor and employment associate at Ropes & Gray LLP, where he counseled healthcare entities, secondary schools and […]

Genevieve Holmes

CARB-X Chief Operating Officer

Thomas Hook

Lecturer

Thom is an attorney, compliance professional, and adjunct law professor with over 15 years of experience in risk management, compliance, and internal audit, specializing in Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and sanctions compliance. Having worked in the crypto sector since 2018, Thom is currently the Global Chief Compliance Officer of Moonpay and was previously the US Chief Compliance Officer of […]

Benjamin A. Howe

Lecturer

Ben Howe is a full-time practicing attorney in Orrick's Boston office. For over a decade, Ben has advised entrepreneurs, companies and investors on all aspects of the startup company life cycle. Beyond his law firm experience, Ben has held in-house legal positions, served as a director of a micro venture capital fund and, prior to […]

Lilly Huang

Lecturer

Ms. Huang received her J.D. from the Law School in 2008. While a law student, she served as a Note Editor for the Journal of Science and Technology Law. She was also a Teaching Assistant in the LL.M. Writing Program. After graduating, she worked as a Corporate Associate at Goulston and Storrs in Boston. Since […]

Nicole Huberfeld

Edward R. Utley Professor of Health Law, BU School of Law and BU School of Public Health

Nicole Huberfeld is Edward R. Utley Professor of Health Law, with a joint appointment at BU Law School and BU School of Public Health. She serves as Chair of the BU Health Law Program and is a founding Co-Director of the BU Program on Reproductive Justice. Her research focuses on the intersection of health law […]

Joseph E. Hunt IV

Lecturer

Mr. Hunt is a Partner at Morse, Barnes-Brown, & Pendleton P.C. A member of the firm’s Corporate and Tax practice groups, Mr. Hunt represents clients throughout all stages of the entity life cycle, including formation, capitalization, equity incentive plans, debt and equity financing, and mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Hunt was the recipient of both the […]

Cornelius K. Hurley

Lecturer

Cornelius Hurley has over 35 years of diversified legal, entrepreneurial, and academic experience in the financial sector. His teaching and research interests focus upon the interactions between finance and the real economy. He serves an independent director of Computershare Trust Company, N.A., an element of one of the global leaders in the transfer agent business, […]

Stuart Hurowitz

Lecturer

Ilana Hurwitz

Professor of Law

Ms. Hurwitz has taught Trusts & Estates as visiting faculty at Boston University School of Law since 1997. She also taught at Boston College Law School for fifteen years. In addition to Trusts & Estates, Ms. Hurwitz has taught Alternative Dispute Resolution, Negotiation, Advanced Negotiation, and a course in lawyering skills and professional responsibility. Ms. […]

Keith N. Hylton

William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor

Keith Hylton, a William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor of Boston University and Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law, joined the BU Law faculty in 1995 after teaching for six years and receiving tenure at Northwestern University School of Law. He is a prolific scholar who is widely recognized for his work across […]

Patricia J. Jabar

Adjunct Professor

Patricia J. Jabar is a tax partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers' Boston office with an extensive background in income tax consequences of partnerships as a specialty, focused on private equity. Ms. Jabar serves premiere clients such as Goldman Sachs, Fidelity, Bain Capital, Harvard Private Equity, MIT Private Equity, and many others. Ms. Jabar has a strong background […]

Cody Jacobs

Lecturer

Cody Jacobs joined the Lawyering Program at Boston University School of Law in 2019. He has been teaching legal research and writing for four years, most recently as a visiting assistant professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law, and prior to that as an Abraham L. Friedman Fellow at Temple University's Beasley School of Law where he […]

Kathryn Johnson

Assistant Director, LLM and Non-JD Professional Development

Kathryn has a breadth of legal experience, having served as an Assistant Counsel at MIT where she provided counseling and legal services on topics including contract review and negotiation, risk management, and legal compliance. Most recently, she worked as a Visiting Career Advisor in the Office of Graduate and International Programs at BU Law School. […]

Kelly C. Johnson

Assistant Director

Kelly has worked at the B.U. Law Libraries since 2014 and has held a variety of positions including ILL Supervisor, Circulation Supervisor & Faculty Liaison, and Head of Circulation, Data, & Assessment. In her current role as Assistant Director, Kelly is responsible for managing the Access Services team, as well as the library spaces, hours, […]

Daniel Johnston

Lecturer

Daniel Johnston is an associate at Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP. As a member of the real estate department, Daniel focuses on all aspects of commercial real estate, including leasing, financing, permitting, zoning, dispositions, acquisitions, and renewable energy. Whether the project involves commercial developments and redevelopments, retail, shopping centers, renewable energy products, or liquor licensing, […]

Alethea Jones

Collections & Resource Sharing Librarian

Patti Jones

Lecturer

Hannah Joseph

Lecturer

Roger Joseph

Lecturer

Roger Joseph is a senior consultant in the Investment Management Practice Group at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP. He previously served on the firm's Advisory Board. Roger served as co-chair of Bingham McCutchen LLP’s global financial services practice and as a member of its Executive Board prior to that firm’s combination with Morgan Lewis. Roger’s […]

Amy Kao (Ling)

Lecturer

Nirva Kapasi Patel

Lecturer

Professor Nirva Kapasi Patel will be teaching the inaugural Animal Law class at the law school. Prior to coming to the law school, she served several roles at Harvard Law School’s Animal Law & Policy Program including Executive Director, Clinical Instructor and Global Research Fellow. She most recently worked with students to file a groundbreaking […]

Wendy Kaplan

Clinical Professor of Law Emerita

Wendy Kaplan joined the Criminal Trial Practice Clinic at Boston University School of Law, following her work as a trial attorney in the Massachusetts public defender office. She became a clinical professor in 2017. Her primary clinical work involves the education, training and case supervision of third-year law students who represent defendants in criminal and delinquency […]

Craig W. Kaylor

Lecturer

Craig W. Kaylor is the Vice President of Compliance of PeoplesBank in Holyoke, Massachusetts. Prior to this position, Mr. Kaylor was the general counsel of Hampden Bank and its parent company, Hampden Bancorp, Inc., a publically traded company . Mr. Kaylor's areas of expertise include regulatory compliance, risk management, bank secrecy, internal controls and corporate […]

Beau Kealy

Lecturer

Beau Kealy (she/her) co-developed and established the Mental Health Litigation Practicum at BU Law in the Fall of 2023 along with BU Law alum, Kristin Lummus, her colleague at the Committee for Public Counsel Services (CPCS), Mental Health Litigation Division (MHLD). She is delighted to welcome Rachel Rosenberg to join her this Spring semester to […]

Sean J. Kealy

Clinical Professor of Law

Sean Kealy graduated from Temple Law School in 1994. He was an assistant attorney general from 1995-1999 where he worked on 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 […]

Barbara Keller

Lecturer

Michael J. Kendall

Lecturer

Steven Kennedy

Lecturer

Steven C. Kennedy has over 25 years of experience as a trial attorney representing businesses, commercial liability insurers, and professionals in complex, high exposure litigation. He has obtained significant success in multiple jury trials and pre-suit resolution. Kennedy has represented clients in cases involving general liability, employment discrimination, construction and/or indemnity disputes, professional malpractice, corporate […]

Sapna Khatri

Executive Director, Program on Reproductive Justice

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 […]

Anuj Khetarpal

Lecturer

Jenna Kim

Office Manager

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Candice King

Lecturer

Candice King is a Principal in EY’s Transfer Pricing Practice in Boston. Ms. King has 15 years of transfer pricing experience with EY and currently assists Northeast Area inbound and outbound clients with a range of transfer pricing services including international tax planning, intangibles and supply chain engagements, documentation, acquisition integration and controversy support. She […]

Elizabeth King

Associate Professor of Law

Elizabeth King is a scholar of corporate governance, corporate finance, and nonprofit law. Her research explores the impact of markets and regulation on nonprofit organizations. She is particularly interested in the role of nonprofit hospitals and the rise of for-profit corporations in the healthcare sector. Her work has appeared in publications such as the Yale […]

Jin-Ho King

Lecturer

Jin-Ho King is a partner at Milligan Rona Duran & King LLC, a Boston-based litigation firm. Mr. King focuses his practice on appellate litigation in state and federal courts. Mr. King earned his Bachelor of Arts in English at Cornell University and his Juris Doctor with Honors at the George Washington University Law School. While […]

Laura Kirchner

Events and Operations Specialist

Adam Kirkpatrick

Manager, Client Tech Field Services

Jason Klumb

Lecturer

H. Norman Knickle

Lecturer

H. Norman Knickle is an attorney-adviser in the Boston Regional Office of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The SEC oversees the key participants in the securities world, including securities exchanges, securities brokers and dealers, investment advisors, and mutual funds with a mission to protect investors, maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets, and facilitate capital […]

Steven Arrigg Koh

Professor of Law

Steven Arrigg Koh teaches and writes in criminal law, constitutional law, and international law. His interdisciplinary scholarship bridges theory and practice, drawing on sociological frameworks to deepen institutionally grounded analyses of U.S. federal and international legal systems. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in New York University Law Review, Duke Law Journal Online, Cornell Law Review, Washington University Law […]

Susan P. Koniak

Professor of Law Emerita

Professor Susan Koniak says the key to being a good legal teacher is to never lose sight of one's key responsibility: to produce good lawyers. "When I'm standing in front of the students, it's not about me, it's about them. It's my responsibility to ensure that they have a solid understanding of the material, and […]

Seth Kosto

Lecturer

Elizabeth Kovacs

Senior Program Coordinator

Adam Krueckeberg

Vice Dean for Administration

Adam Krueckeberg is the vice dean for administration at Boston University School of Law. Adam brings deep management and operational experience as well as a service-oriented approach honed over a career of nearly thirty years, including more than a decade at Boston College. During his time at Boston College, he has served as special assistant […]

Michelle L’Etoile

Director of Graduate Admissions

Pnina Lahav

Professor of Law Emerita

During the course of her legal career, Pnina Lahav has published nearly 50 journal articles and three books, including the critically acclaimed Judgment in Jerusalem: Chief Justice Simon Agranat and the Zionist Century. Winner of Israel’s Seltner Award (1998) and the Gratz College Centennial Book Award (1998), she is presently completing a biography of Israel’s fourth […]

Peter C. Lake

Data Enrollment & Technology Manager

Melissa Langa

Adjunct Professor

MELISSA LANGA is a lawyer with the Boston law firm of Bove Langa Witherell & Soiffer P.C. She has built her practice guiding domestic and international individuals, families, businesses, and charitable organizations in designing and implementing customized tax-efficient structures to meet their particular estate planning, business, and charitable needs. She also assists clients in the […]

John D. Lanza

Partner

John Lanza is a partner and intellectual property lawyer with Foley & Lardner LLP where he excels at helping companies identify and maximize the corporate value of their intellectual property assets. He provides strategic advice to his clients regarding the acquisition, transfer and enforcement of intellectual property rights and counsels them regarding their business operations […]

John E. LaPlante

Associate Director, International Graduate Programs

John LaPlante is OGIP’s trusted academic advisor, moot court coordinator and admissions lead. John has an extensive background in legal practice, academia and international education. He has lived and worked extensively abroad and is a loyal and talented advocate for our students. Having studied and worked outside of the United States, John appreciates both the […]

Katherine Law

Associate Director, Clinical and Experiential Education

Anna Lawless-Collins

Associate Director for Systems & Collection Services

Anna Lawless-Collins oversees the Systems and Collection Services department at the Fineman and Pappas Law Libraries. In that role, she oversees the management of the collection, including acquisition of new resources and evaluation of existing resources. She also oversees the management and use of library systems. This work includes supervising and working with other librarians […]

Richard Lawson

CARB-X Director of Portfolio Support

Daniel Layo

Lecturer

Dan Layo is a lecturer at the School of Law. Dan is currently Senior Associate General Counsel at a financial technology firm based in New York, NY. Dan’s in-house practice largely focuses on commercial, corporate and regulatory matters. Prior to his current role, Dan was Senior Counsel at a global investment management firm based in […]

Mandie LeBeau

Assistant Dean for Career Development & Public Service

Assistant Dean Mandie LeBeau oversees the Career Development & Public Service Office at Boston University School of Law. She joined the University in the summer of 2020. Assistant Dean LeBeau has more than fifteen years of experience as a career development professional specializing in the legal industry. Prior to joining the University, she managed the […]

Jetson Leder-Luis

Assistant Professor of Markets, Public Policy and Law

Jetson Leder-Luis, PhD is an assistant professor at Boston University and a Faculty Research Fellow at the NBER. He also is a professor by courtesy at Boston University School of Law and at the Department of Economics. His research addresses fraud, misreporting and overbilling in public programs, especially in the Medicare program, as well as […]

Claire Lee

Director, Non-JD Professional Development

Claire Lee is the Director of Non-JD Professional Development at Boston University School of Law. In this role, Claire leads and oversees all professional and career development services for graduate students enrolled in non-JD programs, including LLM in American Law, Intellectual Property & Information Law, Banking & Financial Law, and Taxation programs. She also provides […]

Maureen T. Leo

Director, International Graduate Programs

Maureen Tracy Leo brings a rich background in international legal education and teaching. Before attending law school, she gained diverse experiences, from interning at the White House to working at a homeless shelter for women and children through the Jesuit Volunteer Corps. After graduating from law school, Maureen clerked for Judge William M. Nickerson of […]

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