Faculty Profiles

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 […]

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 […]

David Rossman

Professor of Law Emeritus

Since 1978, David Rossman has served as director of BU Law’s Criminal Law Clinical Programs. He teaches courses in criminal procedure, criminal trial practice, criminal trial advocacy and issues in criminal justice. “Working with young lawyers on actual litigation is immensely satisfying,” he says. “I’m always energized by the new ways in which they attack problems that […]

Brittainy Roth

Finance & Grant Manager

Rita Ryan

Lecturer

Elizabeth Ryan Catalano

Senior Major Gifts Officer

Victoria Sahani

Professor of Law

Victoria Shannon Sahani is a Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law and previously served as the Associate Provost for Community and Inclusion at Boston University. Before joining BU, she served as Associate Dean of Faculty Development/Special Projects and Professor of Law at Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. She also […]

Christian G. Samito

Lecturer in Law

Faith Sapp

Legal Information Librarian

Faith joined Boston University School of Law’s Fineman & Pappas Law Libraries in November 2024 as a Legal Information Librarian. She provides legal research services to faculty and students and teaches certification courses. As the student services librarian, Faith works with library staff and law school students to provide a welcoming and productive study environment. […]

Jeffrey N. Saviano

Lecturer

Jeffrey N. Saviano is the EY Global Tax Innovation Leader. Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts Jeff is a Partner with EY and a member of EY’s global innovation leadership team. He advises governments and commercial enterprises on the risks, opportunities, and policy implications emanating from innovative technology and data systems. Jeff also leads teams in the […]

Kristen Scammon

Lecturer

Kristen Schuler Scammon is a Founding Partner of Torres, Scammon, Hincks & Day, LLP, a litigation boutique law firm opened in March of 2012. Scammon practiced in two litigation departments of large law firms, including Mintz in Boston, from 1996-2012. Her practice focused on business litigation and white collar criminal defense. In 2012, she and […]

Christina R. Schaper

Lecturer

Ms. Schaper received her JD, cum laude, from Boston College Law School in 1995. As a law student, she was Executive Editor of the Boston College Third World Law Journal. After graduating, she worked as a corporate law associate at Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault, LLP. From 1999 to 2000, she worked at Hemenway & Barnes […]

Matthew D. Schnall

Adjunct Professor

Matthew D. Schnall, a partner in the Boston office of WilmerHale, handles a diverse range of business-related tax matters, and has extensive experience with state tax controversies. He lectures frequently on subjects in federal and state tax law. Mr. Schnall has served as chair of the Boston Bar Association Tax Section and of its State […]

Kevin Schwartz

Senior Program Coordinator

David J. Seipp

Professor of Law Emeritus

Though born and raised in the heartland of America—Dubuque, Iowa—noted legal historian and property law teacher David Seipp often looks across the Atlantic for inspiration in his legal research. Among his scholarly interests are the roles of judges, lawyers and jurors in the development of medieval English common law, the persistence and evolution of basic […]

Jennifer Serafyn

Lecturer

Jennifer Serafyn is an assistant United States attorney in the Civil Division of the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts. As an assistant US attorney, Jennifer both prosecutes cases on behalf of the United States and defends the government, its agencies and employees in cases brought in federal court. Jennifer has handled […]

Andrew Shact

Lecturer

Andrew Shact is a seasoned corporate tax executive with extensive experience organically building, externally acquiring, and tax efficiently restructuring multinational companies. He has a proven record delivering bottom-line tax expense reduction and cash savings. Andrew has built and revitalized tax departments at several high growth publicly traded and private equity owned US and foreign based […]

Nikhil Shanbhag

Lecturer

Eric Sherbet

Lecturer

Amy Sheridan

Lecturer

Amy Sheridan is a Lecturer in Law in the Graduate Tax Program at Boston University School of Law, where she has taught Executive Compensation since 2019. She is also a partner at Sullivan & Worcester LLP and a member of the firm’s Management Committee. Amy concentrates her practice in the area of employee benefits and […]

Sarah R. Sherman-Stokes

Clinical Associate Professor of Law

Sarah Sherman-Stokes is a clinical associate professor at Boston University School of Law. Ms. Sherman-Stokes teaches Immigration Law and is the associate director of the Immigrants’ Rights & Human Trafficking Clinic. Her scholarship takes a critical look at immigration law and policy, including at the intersections of asylum law, detention and deportation, and immigrant surveillance, enforcement […]

Benjamin Shorey

Lecturer

Benjamin Shorey is a legal research and writing lecturer in the LLM program. Ben received a BA in political science from Cedarville University, and a JD from Washington University School of Law. He has been a trial and appellate litigator throughout his legal career and has especially substantial experience in Massachusetts appellate courts. His professional […]

Jed Handelsman Shugerman

Professor of Law

Jed Handelsman Shugerman joined BU Law in 2023 after spending a year as a visiting professor. He received his BA, JD, and PhD (History) from Yale. His book, The People’s Courts (Harvard 2012), traces the rise of judicial elections, judicial review, and the influence of money and parties in American courts. It is based on his dissertation […]

Amy Siegel

Director, Alumni Relations

Katharine B. Silbaugh

Professor of Law

Katharine Silbaugh is widely recognized for her pioneering work on gender, family and household labor, and adolescent interaction with the legal system. Her research highlights the economic and social value of work done within households; the complex relationship between families and institutions, such as employers, schools, and commercial entities; and the inadequacy of the legal […]

Jessica Silbey

Associate Dean for Intellectual Life

Jessica Silbey teaches and writes in the areas of intellectual property and technology law, constitutional law, and law and the humanities. In addition to a law degree, she has a PhD in comparative literature and draws on her studies of literature and film to better account for law’s force and limitations. In 2018, she was a Guggenheim […]

Theodore S. Sims

Professor of Law

Following law school, Theodore Sims clerked for the Honorable John C. Godbold, of the United States Court of Appeals for the (then) 5th Circuit, practiced with (then) Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, in Washington, DC, and served with the Office of Tax Policy of the United States Treasury. Upon leaving government service in 1981 he joined […]

Linda J. Skinner

Facilities Manager

Robert D. Sloane

Professor of Law

After receiving his JD in 2000, Professor Robert D. Sloane worked for the International Committee of Lawyers for Tibet (now known as Tibet Justice Center) under the auspices of Yale Law School’s Robert L. Bernstein Fellowship in International Human Rights. He led fact-finding missions to Nepal, India, and Tibet; wrote submissions for the UN Commission […]

Teagan Smith

Digital Marketing Manager

Wayne E. Smith

Adjunct Professor

Mr. Smith, a retired tax partner with Deloitte Tax LLP in Boston, practiced his craft with the firm for some 33 years. During those years he served clients in a multitude of industries operating through a host of different legal structures. Most recently he was a tax practice leader in their Tech-Venture Center serving venture-backed […]

Andrew Soares-White

Chief Financial Officer

Molly Soiffer

Lecturer

Molly R. Soiffer is a Partner in the law firm of Bove Langa Witherell & Soiffer P.C., located in Boston, Massachusetts. Her practice is focused on estate planning, asset protection, and estate administration, which includes advising clients on wealth preservation, estate tax minimization, incapacity, domestic and international estate planning, gift transaction planning, preparation of gift and […]

James Southard

Carb-X Compliance Manager

James Southard brings over 12 years of legal experience to his role with CARB-X. He graduated from Northeastern University in 2004 and The New England School of Law in 2009. His previous experience focused on the areas of Compliance, Due Diligence and Data Security. At CARB-X, James manages the Conflict of Interest, Due Diligence and […]

William J. Squires

Lecturer in Law

Bill focuses his practice on environmental, land use and real estate matters. He counsels corporations, developers, manufacturers, private equity firms, lenders and individuals in litigation, transactional and regulatory settings. Bill’s practice includes the acquisition and disposition of real property and operating businesses, the cleanup of contaminated properties, compliance, enforcement defense, permitting, zoning, wetlands matters, litigation […]

Jessica A. Stanton

Visiting Professor of Law

Jessica Stanton is an associate professor of political science at Temple University. Her research focuses on international relations and international law, including the impact of law on the dynamics and resolution of civil wars; domestic and international criminal accountability for wartime violence and terrorism; and the influence of law and institutions in international affairs more […]

Maya Steinitz

Professor of Law

Professor Maya Steinitz teaches civil procedure, international arbitration, and international business transactions. Her research focuses on a wide range of topics including the intersection of civil litigation and corporate law, public and business international law, transnational dispute resolution, and the global legal profession. She is one of the nation’s leading experts on litigation finance. Her […]

Laura Stephens

Director and Lecturer of Health Law

Request an appointment Laura Stephens is a graduate of the BU Law Health Law Program. Following a judicial clerkship with the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island in Providence, she practiced law in the Office of the General Counsel for Mass General Brigham in Boston for 25 years before returning to the […]

Rephael G. Stern

Associate Professor

Professor Rephael Stern writes and teaches in the areas of administrative law, constitutional law, international law, property, legal history, and comparative law. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in the Yale Law Journal, Constitutional Commentary, and the peer-reviewed journals of Law and History Review and Comparative Studies in Society and History, among other venues. Stern […]

Douglas S. Stransky

Lecturer

Douglas S. Stransky is a tax partner and head of the International Tax Practice in the Boston office of Sullivan & Worcester LLP. Mr. Stransky concentrates his practice on international tax planning for multinational clients in the financial services, life sciences, manufacturing, private equity, technology, and venture capital industries, with a particular emphasis on US-based […]

Leslie F. Su

Lecturer

Ms. Su received her JD from Boston College Law School in 1998. As a law student, she served as Managing Editor for the Boston College Third World Journal. After graduating, she worked at Gordon Haley, LLP. in Boston. In 2009, she began working for the Murphy Law Group in North Andover, and in 2012, she […]

Richard A. Sugarman

Lecturer

Richard A. Sugarman is an experienced attorney who has practiced with large and medium law firms, the United States Government, and in house. Mr. Sugarman received his Juris Doctor, with honors, from the George Washington University School of Law in 2000. Following graduation, Mr. Sugarman practiced with several national and regional law firms including the […]

John D. Sullivan

Associate Professor and Chair of Administrative Sciences at MET

Dr. Sullivan is an expert in health care policy, finance, and asset valuation. Prior to joining Boston University, he worked for Fresenius Medical Care, completing the acquisitions of over one hundred health care companies with an estimated value of over $5 billion. In 2008, Sullivan co-founded Reliant Renal Care with private equity funding. He has […]

Paul G. Sweeney – (On Leave)

Director, Transactional Law Program

Paul Sweeney is Professor of the Practice of Law and Director of the Transactional Law Program at BU School of Law. Professor Sweeney brings to the School of Law over 26 years of experience as a leading transactional business lawyer, including 19 years practicing in the Boston office of Foley Hoag, LLP, where he was […]

David S. Szabo

Lecturer

David S. Szabo is cochair of the Health Care practice, a partner in the Corporate and Transactional Department, and a member of the Privacy group at Locke Lord in Boston. He represents hospitals, integrated delivery systems, physician organizations, home care companies, and other healthcare service providers. He also represents healthcare information technology companies and health […]

Victoria Tang

Lecturer and Clinical Instructor

Victoria Tang joins Boston University School of Law as a lecturer and clinical instructor in the BU/MIT Student Innovations Law Clinic, which provides experiential education through legal assistance to the next generation of creators, researchers, and tech advocates. Before arriving at BU Law, Victoria served as a clinical supervisor and staff attorney at the East […]

Evan Taras

Assistant Director, Graduate and Online Programs

Anne Taylor

Assistant Dean, Admissions & Financial Aid

Aida E. Ten

Registrar

Eric Tennen

Lecturer

Eric Tennen is a partner Swomley & Tennen, LLP. His work focuses on criminal defense and civil rights matters. Attorney Tennen has extensive experience as a trial litigator and appellate advocate. Attorney Tennen specializes in issues related to sex offenses and collateral consequences, such as involuntary civil commitment and sex offender registration. He has won […]

Bisera Thaci

Lecturer

Bisera Thaci is an associate at Hackett Feinberg P.C., a Boston-based law firm where she concentrates her practice in asset-based lending, commercial and industrial loans, commercial real estate financing, renewable energy finance, affordable housing and community development. Ms. Thaci represents banks and other financial institutions, nonprofit organizations, and state and local governmental agencies in structuring, […]

Joanne A. Thomas

Assistant Dean for Marketing, Communications & Graduate Admissions

Joanne has been working in higher education marketing, communications, and enrollment management for more than fifteen years, leading strategy for graduate, professional, and adult degree-completion programs in areas from nursing to computer science, engineering to education, and many more. Prior to joining the team at BU Law, she led graduate marketing and enrollment in the […]

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