324 result(s) found.

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  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 […]
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  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 […]
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  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 […]
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  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 […]
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  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 […]
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  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 […]
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  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. […]
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  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 […]
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  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 […]
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  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, […]
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  Laura Atlee

  Lecturer
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  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 […]
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  Mark Bamford

  Lecturer
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  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 […]
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  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 […]
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  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 […]
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  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 […]
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  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 […]
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  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 […]
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  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 […]
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  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 […]
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  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 […]
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  Barbara Boehler

  Lecturer
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  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 […]
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  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 […]
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  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.
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  Heidi Brieger

  Adjunct Professor
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  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 […]
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  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 […]
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  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 […]
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  James Bryant

  Lecturer
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  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 […]
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  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 […]
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  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 […]
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  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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  Thomas Cesso

  Lecturer
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  Carliss Chatman

  Visiting Professor

  Carliss Chatman specializes in the fields of corporate law, commercial law, race and entrepreneurship, and ethics. Her scholarship has appeared in journals such as UCLA Law Review, Michigan Journal of Race and the Law, Texas Law Review, UC Irvine Law Review, Washington & Lee Law Review, and SMU Law Review. In addition, she is the […]
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  Stephen Y. Chow

  Lecturer

  Stephen Y. Chow is managing attorney of the Boston law firm, Hsuanyeh Law Group PC, practicing in business and intellectual property litigation, patent preparation, electronic commerce and privacy, and technology company counseling and transactions. Mr. Chow graduated from Harvard University with an AB in Physics and Philosophy cum laude and an SM in Applied Physics […]
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  Alex Civetta

  Lecturer
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  Tom Clark

  Lecturer

  Tom Clark is a partner with The Wagner Law Group, a certified woman-owned law firm specializing in ERISA and Employee Benefits.  He also serves as the firm’s chief operating officer and manages the St. Louis office.  Tom’s expertise encompasses all aspects of employee benefits including a robust practice assisting service providers such as investment advisors […]
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  John F. Cohan

  Lecturer

  John Cohan is a corporate partner at Gesmer Updegrove LLP in Boston, where he focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and private equity financings, bank financings, private placements of equity and debt securities, intellectual property licensing, software licensing and technology law. John’s practice ranges from multi-million dollar acquisitions, venture capital and private […]
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  Jared B. Cohen

  Lecturer

  Jared B. Cohen is an Assistant Attorney General in the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office, where he has handled criminal and civil rights matters, including investigations and litigation at both trial and appellate levels. Before joining the AG’s office, Jared served as a prosecutor in the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office, a litigation associate at WilmerHale, […]
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  Kent A. Coit

  PROFESSOR OF LAW EMERITUS

  Kent Coit is Professor of Law Emeritus at Boston University School of Law where he had served as Professor of Law and director of the School of Law’s Transactional Law Program. Professor Coit joined the School of Law in 2012 after retiring as a partner in the Boston office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom […]
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  Madison Condon

  Associate Professor of Law

  Madison Condon joined Boston University School of Law as an associate professor in 2020. She teaches Environmental Law, Corporations, Law and Capitalism, and a seminar on climate risk and financial institutions Professor Condon is an expert on climate change, financial risk, and regulation. Her scholarship has been included in collections of the best articles of the year […]
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  Chris Conley

  Lecturer and Clinical Instructor, BU/MIT Student Innovations Law Clinic

  Christopher Conley is a lecturer and clinical instructor in the BU/MIT Student Innovations Law Clinic. Prior to joining BU, Conley spent over a decade as a technology policy attorney with the ACLU of Northern California, where he engaged in legislative advocacy, litigation, and public education on issues including privacy, surveillance, and free expression and their intersection […]
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  Nancy Conlin

  Lecturer
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  Mary C. Connaughton

  Professor of Law Emerita

  Mary Connaughton, a clinical faculty member in the Civil Litigation & Justice Program since 1993, teaches courses in lawyering skills, trial advocacy, and evidence law. She also supervises students in administrative, state and federal court hearings in social security disability, unemployment compensation, divorce and housing disputes.
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  Doug Cornelius

  Lecturer

  Doug is the Chief Compliance Officer at Beacon Capital Partners, a real estate private equity firm, registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission as an investment adviser. Before joining Beacon Capital, Doug practiced law with the law firm of Goodwin Procter LLP in their Boston office from 1995 to 2008. Doug is an Investment Adviser […]
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  Leo J. Cushing

  Lecturer

  Leo J. Cushing is the founding partner of Cushing & Dolan PC, a Boston based law firm established in 1984 specializing in closely held businesses, taxation, sophisticated estate planning, elder law and real estate. Leo's practice includes all aspects of sophisticated estate planning techniques, asset protection, trust planning, charitable giving and resolution of tax controversies. […]
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  David D’Addio

  Lecturer
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  Laura E. D’Amato

  Senior Lecturer

  Laura D’Amato teaches first-year Lawyering Skills and upper-class Persuasive Writing at BU Law. She is the 2023 recipient of the Michael Melton Award for Excellence in Teaching. In 2024, she completed a two-year rotation as director of the Lawyering Program. Prior to joining BU Law, Laura was a litigation partner at Goulston & Storrs PC, where […]
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  Julie A. Dahlstrom

  Associate Dean of Experiential Education

  Julie Dahlstrom assumed her role of Associate Dean of Clinical & Experiential Education on July 1, 2023, after over ten years teaching and supervising student attorneys in the experiential program at BU. Dahlstrom began her clinical teaching career as the founder and director of the Human Trafficking Clinic, which was named one of the most […]
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  Joseph B. Darby

  Adjunct Professor

  Joseph (“Jay”) B. Darby III has more than thirty years of experience representing clients in a wide range of tax, estate planning, and related business matters. His goal is to help clients enjoy their lives by reducing taxes, avoiding (or resolving) problems with taxing authorities, and passing personal wealth to the appropriate next destination.  Jay […]
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  Steven Dean

  Professor of Law

  Steven Dean is Professor of Law and Paul Siskind Research Scholar at Boston University School of Law. His scholarship explores international tax policy, racial equity, and the intersection of tax law with philanthropy and social enterprise. He teaches courses including International Tax, Introduction to Federal Income Taxation, and Taxation and Racial Capitalism. Dean is the […]
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  Edward J. DeAngelo

  Lecturer

  Mr. DeAngelo received his J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1983. After graduating, he served as law clerk to Judge Robert E. Keeton of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. From 1984 to 1988, he worked as a litigator at Goodwin Proctor in Boston. From 1991 to 2001, […]
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  Yael D. DeCapo

  Lecturer
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  Mark J. DeFrancisco

  Lecturer

  Mark DeFrancisco serves as Chairman of the Massachusetts Appellate Tax Board where he presides as an administrative law judge over trials of contested state and local tax appeals. He has over 40 years of experience in the area of state and local taxation, in both the public sector and in private practice as a tax […]
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  Michael DeRienzo

  Lecturer

  Mike DeRienzo is an attorney, teacher, and author with a bachelors from Bentley University and a Juris Doctorate from Villanova University School of Law. Shortly after law school, Mike began his career as New York City litigator with a focus on Immigration, Art and Cultural Heritage Law,  Mediation, Civil Rights, Employment Law, and Criminal Law. He […]
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  Kate Devlin Joyce

  Director of the Externship Program

  Kate Devlin Joyce is a clinical associate professor and director of the externship programs. She sees externships as a means of integrating doctrinal and experiential teaching. Devlin Joyce focuses her work on developing methods of teaching externship seminars that help students to better understand the connections between their doctrinal courses and their practical legal experiences. Prior […]
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  Anna di Robilant

  Professor of Law

  Professor Anna di Robilant is a property law scholar trained in both Europe and the United States. She writes and teaches in the areas of property law, property theory, legal history, and comparative law. Professor di Robilant has published extensively in both peer-reviewed and student-edited journals, including the Vanderbilt Law Review, the American Journal of […]