Faculty Profiles

Sherrie Avalon Niles

Lecturer

Born in Trinidad and Tobago, Sherrie received her legal education in both the British Commonwealth and the United States. She first expressed interest in BU’s Tax LL.M. Program as an international candidate. Her Tax LL.M. together with her prior work experience in various countries enabled her to easily transition into American corporate life. Here, she […]

Eva Nilsen

Clinical Associate Professor of Law Emerita

Professor Eva Nilsen has been a key member of the Criminal Justice Clinic's faculty since 1979. Over the years, she has trained and supervised hundreds of third-year law students as they defend indigent clients in felony and misdemeanor cases. She also has taught criminal justice courses and seminars, including advanced criminal procedure, sentencing theory and […]

Crow O’Bannon

Collections Technician

Crow O’Bannon joined the Fineman and Pappas Law Library in June of 2024. They received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Swarthmore College, majoring in Religious Studies and minoring in Black Studies. They received their Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School.

Maria O’Brien

Professor of Law

Noted employee benefits law and insurance law specialist Maria O'Brien began her teaching career at Boston University School of Law in 1988. She taught at De Paul University College of Law from 1989 until rejoining the Boston University faculty in 1995, and was a visiting professor at the University of Chicago Law School in 1993. […]

Robin O’Donoghue

Lecturer

Meghan O’Keefe

Development Associate

Maureen A. O’Rourke

Dean Emerita

As dean from 2006 to 2018 and interim dean from 2004 to 2006, Maureen A. O’Rourke oversaw the construction of the five-story, state-of-the-art Sumner M. Redstone Building and gut renovation of the adjacent law tower. This project was the culmination of decades of planning and provides students with first-rate community spaces, high quality classrooms, and amenities. Dean O’Rourke also […]

Ngozi Okidegbe

Associate Professor of Law

Ngozi Okidegbe is an Associate Professor of Law and Assistant Professor of Computing & Data Sciences. Her focus is in the areas of law and technology, evidence, criminal procedure, and racial justice. Her work examines how the use of predictive technologies in the criminal justice system impacts racially marginalized communities. Professor Okidegbe is a Faculty Associate […]

Angela Onwuachi-Willig

Dean, Ryan Roth Gallo Professor of Law

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 […]

Kevin Outterson

Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Law

Kevin Outterson, J.D., LL.M., is Professor of Law and Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Law at Boston University, where he leads the Social Innovation on Drug Resistance program. He is also the founding Executive Director and Principal Investigator of Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Biopharmaceutical Accelerator (CARB-X), a global non-profit partnership funded by the U.S., U.K., and […]

Marielle O’Malley

Senior Program Coordinator

Donna Palermino

Lecturer

Donna received her B.A. cum laude in Economics from Harvard University, and her J.D. from New York University School of Law, where she served as a Note and Comment Editor on the Law Review. She has been admitted to the Massachusetts Bar, and the bars of the U.S. District Court of the District of Massachusetts, […]

Apar Panchal

Graduate Admissions Operations and Data Manager

Stephanie Paré Sullivan

Acting Director, Transactional Law Program

Stephanie Paré Sullivan is Acting Director of the Transactional Law Program and a Visiting Lecturer at Boston University School of Law. Stephanie joined the School of Law in 2025, after a twenty-seven-year career in law and business operations. Stephanie most recently served as Managing Director, Chief Operating Officer, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer at Charlesbank […]

William W. Park

Professor of Law Emeritus

Professor William (Rusty) Park teaches in the area of international business law. His research interests include conflict of laws and the interaction of law and religion. After studies at Yale and Columbia, Park practiced in Paris until returning home to Boston, where he served as Director of Boston University’s Center for Banking and Financial Law. […]

Young M. Park

Lecturer

Young M. Park is a lecturer in the School of Law's Transactional Law Program. Ms. Park received her JD from the School of Law in 2000. While a law student, she was a member of the American Journal of Law & Medicine. Ms. Park is currently a counsel at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom […]

Michelle Pascucci

Lecturer

Michelle is an attorney at Donnelly, Conroy, & Gelhaar in Boston. There, she represents individuals facing federal, state, and institutional investigations, including matters involving financial crimes, tax fraud, election crimes, and health care fraud. Prior to joining DCG, Michelle was a Trial Attorney with the Department of Justice Fraud Section in Washington, DC. There, she […]

Sidd Pattanayak

Lecturer

Sidd Pattanayak has served as an international counsel (both in in-house and outside counsel capacities) with 10+ years of experience in multiple areas (corporate law, regulatory compliance, M&A, joint ventures, franchising and licensing, corporate governance, and other areas) and in multiple jurisdictions (across the Americas, Europe, Middle East, India, People's Republic of China, Southeast Asia, Korea, […]

Tom Patten

Lecturer and Clinical Instructor

Tom Patten joins Boston University School of Law’s faculty as a Lecturer of Law in the Student Innovations Law Clinic, providing legal advice and guidance to entrepreneurs from BU and MIT. Prior to joining the BU Law faculty, Tom worked as an in-house counsel to two separate financial technology startup companies, focusing on consumer lending and securities […]

Brainard L. Patton

Adjunct Professor of Law

Mr. Patton is a practicing attorney, retired from the Boston office of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. He previously spent fifteen years with several Fortune 150 companies, including Asea Brown Boveri, in Stamford, CT, where he was International Tax Director. During an earlier part of his career, he and his family lived for twelve years in Belgium, France, […]

Jef Pearlman

Clinical Professor and Executive Director of the BU/MIT Student Innovations Law Clinic

Jef Pearlman is a Clinical Professor and the Executive Director of the BU/MIT Student Innovations Law Clinic (SILC) at Boston University School of Law. Prior to joining the BU faculty, he was a Clinical Professor of Law and the Director of the Intellectual Property & Technology Law Clinic at USC Gould School of Law for […]

Thomas E. Peckham

Adjunct Professor

Tom Peckham is a partner in the Private Client Group of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP. His practice is concentrated in the areas of sophisticated estate planning for high net-worth individuals, estate and trust administration, and related tax and business planning. Mr. Peckham has more than 40 years of experience in tax and estate planning. […]

Portia Pedro

Associate Professor of Law

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 […]

Rebecca Pendleton

Lecturer

Rebecca Pendleton earned her BA in English from Stephens College in 2000 and her JD from City University of New York (CUNY), School of Law in 2012. Shortly after law school, she combined her passion for language and law to teach LLB and LLM law students at Universidad Externado de Colombia, School of Law using […]

Nicole Peppe

Lecturer

Nicole Peppe is a partner in Goodwin’s Technology business unit and Private Investment Funds practice. Her practice is focused on the representation of domestic and international venture capital, growth equity, and private equity funds and funds of funds in connection with their fund formation and ongoing operational matters. Nicole advises clients on all aspects of […]

William Perkins

Lecturer

Co-chair of the Technology Practice at Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C., Will has more than 25 years of experience representing US and international clients in a variety of corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, venture financings and other partnering and licensing transactions. With a particular focus on strategic investments, Will has closed […]

Susan Permut

Lecturer

Susan I. Permut is a recognized thought leader in corporate governance. She is the former Deputy General Counsel and Assistant Corporate Secretary at EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), a $25B global technology company, where she worked for 23 years, until the merger with Dell Technologies. Susan is currently consulting and advising Boards and management of public […]

Ayodeji Kamau Perrin

Associate Professor of Law

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 […]

Angelo Petrigh

Clinical Associate Professor

Angelo Petrigh teaches in the Defender Clinic. His scholarship examines the unspoken rules and pressures on legal actors that influence the actual operation of criminal law, such as the structural incentives placed on judges, defenders, and prosecutors. His scholarship has appeared in the Boston University Law Review and the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology. Prior […]

Kathleen M. Phelps

Lecturer

Kathleen Phelps is an assistant general counsel for Ameresco Inc., where she represents the company in the development and financing of its solar and other projects. Prior to this position, she was of counsel in the energy transactions section of Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP’s Corporate & Business Transactions Group, where she represented major institutional […]

Ian C. Pilarczyk

Lecturer

Ian C. Pilarczyk is owner and managing member of Pilarczyk LLC, d/b/a Aussie Pet Mobile Arlington. He also serves as a lecturer in the Banking and Financial Law Program, teaching Introduction to the American Legal System. Dr. Pilarczyk was Director of Executive, Online and Special Initiatives at Boston University School of Law from 2017-2020. Prior […]

Karen Pita Loor

Clinical Professor of Law & Director

Karen J. Pita Loor (KPL) is a Michaels Faculty Research Scholar and Clinical Professor of Law. She is the Director of the Criminal Law Clinical Program and teaches Criminal Law to first year students. Loor previously served as Associate Dean for Experiential Education. Loor has been honored with the Dean’s Scholarship Award, the Dean’s Service […]

Ameek A. Ponda

Adjunct Professor

Ameek Ashok Ponda is a tax partner with Sullivan & Worcester LLP in Boston, director of the firm’s tax department, and previously a member of the firm’s management committee. His practice includes domestic and international taxation, with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions and real estate investment trusts. As an adjunct professor with the Boston […]

Arthur Pressman

Lecturer

Enrique Alberto Prieto-Ríos

Visiting Kleh Professor

Enrique Alberto Prieto-Ríos holds a PhD in Law from Birkbeck, University of London (2017), an MA in International Law from University College London (2008), and an LLB from Universidad del Rosario (2007). Dr. Prieto-Ríos is currently the Chief Editor of Estudios Socio-Jurídicos, an esteemed academic journal, and has previously served as Research Director of the […]

Kevin Prussia

Lecturer

Kevin Prussia is a partner in WilmerHale's Litigation/Controversy Department, a member of the Intellectual Property Litigation and Trial Practice Groups, and a member of the firm’s Management Committee. Mr. Prussia is a nationally recognized litigator and trial lawyer, with significant experience representing leading life sciences and technology companies in major disputes involving intellectual property and […]

Nick Psyhogeos

Lecturer, Intellectual Property for LLMs

Nick Psyhogeos is an Instructor at the Harvard Extension School where he teaches a course on digital technology and the future of work. He also co-founded and serves as CEO of Fork, a tech start-up incubating at the Harvard Innovation Lab that uses AI to advance employees toward higher-pay and demand occupations. He started his […]

Christina Pujals Ronan

Lecturer

Christina Pujals Ronan is an Assistant District Attorney at the Essex County District Attorney's Office. During her fifteen years at the D.A.'s office, she was the lead prosecutor of the Essex County Gun Court, a fast track prosecution of firearm cases often including gang involvement. Currently, she is senior trial counsel at the Salem and […]

Benjamin David Pyle

Associate Professor of Law

Benjamin Pyle teaches and writes in empirical legal studies, employment law, and criminal law, with a particular focus on how the law influences employment prospects and post-conviction opportunities for people with criminal records. He has published work in law reviews and peer-reviewed journals, including the Notre Dame Law Review and the International Review of Law […]

Jacqueline Querubin

Enrollment Marketing Manager

Ilana Quirk

Lecturer of Law

Nicholas Ramacher

Lecturer

Weijia Rao

Associate Professor of Law

Weijia Rao’s research applies empirical methods to the study of international and comparative law, with a focus on legal institutions governing global trade and investment. Her work has examined the influence of global businesses on government regulations, the role of domestic politics in international dispute resolution, the evolution and impacts of international investment agreements, and […]

Hugh Dun Rappaport

Lecturer

Michael Refolo

Lecturer

Professor Refolo teaches a course on UCC Article 9 (Secured Transactions), and has also written a book on the Massachusetts Uniform Commercial Code, now in its second edition. Professor Refolo focuses his legal practice on business law, including mergers and acquisitions, securities, banking, loan documentation review, legal opinions, and in the drafting and review of business […]

Jarrod F. Reich

Senior Lecturer

Jarrod Reich is Senior Lecturer in the Lawyering program. He most recently served as a Professor of Legal Writing at the University of Miami School of Law, where he taught first-year and upper-level writing courses and evidence. Previously, he served on the faculties of Georgetown University Law Center and Florida State University College of Law, […]

Brian Reid

Associate Director of JD Admissions

Seth Reiner

Visiting Lecturer

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, […]

Sadiq Reza

Lecturer

Sadiq Reza is a lecturer at BU School of Law, professor emeritus at New York Law School, and former public defender in Washington, DC. He teaches and writes on criminal law, criminal procedure, professional responsibility, trial advocacy, and Islamic law. He has been a visiting professor at BU Law and other Boston-area law schools, and […]

Christina Rice

Assistant Dean, Graduate, International & Online Programs

Christina brings a unique perspective to her role Assistant Dean Graduate, International & Online Programs, having been a student of both the JD and LLM in Taxation programs at BU Law and an instructor in the GTP prior to assuming the director role. She also has a BA in Theater Education from Emerson College and […]

James Richardson

Employer Outreach & Recruitment Program Manager

Norman Richter

Lecturer

Norm Richter teaches undergraduate and graduate level tax courses in the Graduate Tax Program at the Boston University Law School and at Babson College. He has appeared on local news and NPR programs as a tax expert, and on tax panels at tax conferences, as well as served on boards and planning committees for numerousacademic […]

Lucinda Rivera

Lecturer

Lucinda V. Rivera is an Assistant District Attorney, in the Asset Forfeiture Unit for Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office, where she pursues civil asset forfeiture matters, in Suffolk County Superior Court for Civil Matters. Prior to joining the District Attorney’s Office, she worked as an Enforcement Attorney for the Office of the Massachusetts Secretary of […]

Jennifer L. Robble

Senior Information Resources Management Librarian

Jennifer Robble received her J.D., summa cum laude, from the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law and her M.L.S. from Indiana University. She joined the Fineman and Pappas Law Libraries as a Legal Information Librarian in 2011, became the Information Resources Management Librarian in 2013, and was promoted to Senior Information Resources Management […]

Christopher Robertson

Professor of Law, BU School of Law

Christopher Robertson is a tenured professor and N. Neal Pike Scholar in Health & Disability Law. He is also a Professor of Health Law, Policy & Management in the BU School of Public Health. In Fall 2025 he is on leave, serving as a visiting professor at Harvard Law School. Professor Robertson is an expert […]

Emily Robichaud

Associate Director, Academic Administration

Justin Rosen

Lecturer

Mr. Rosen’s area of focus is regulatory compliance. He is currently the Global Chief Compliance Officer of Natixis Investment Managers, a financial services firm with over 50 offices globally. In this role, he is responsible for administering the firm’s Enterprise Compliance Program, which is the overarching compliance framework applicable to the firm’s operations. Mr. Rosen […]

Rachel Rosenberg

Lecturer

Rachel Rosenberg joins BU Law as a Lecturer to co-teach the Mental Health Litigation Practicum. Rachel began her career in public service by representing court-involved students in school discipline and special education matters as a Skadden Fellow at the EdLaw Project. She then joined the Public Defender Division of the Committee for Public Counsel Services […]

Phillip G. Roshak

Lecturer

Mr. Roshak is a tax partner in the Boston office of Ernst & Young with over 19 years of experience providing tax services in both public accounting and corporate tax practice; he focuses on serving clients in the retail and consumer products industries. His experience also includes working with companies in the technology, medical device, […]

Carolina Rossini

Lecturer

Carolina Rossini is an internationally recognized expert in the field of technology policy and law, with over 25 years of experience, having worked in the private, non-profit and academic sectors, and as an advisor to various governments, policy makers and international organizations. She is a member of the World Economic Forum Global Council on the […]

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