Lecturers and Adjunct Professors

Sean Ahern

Sean Ahern is a practicing legal services attorney and a BU Law Class of 2017 alumnus. Sean handles a variety of landlord-tenant matters for low-income persons and elders. He is passionate about housing justice and affordable housing for all. After graduating from law school, Sean worked briefly at a large firm before leaving to build […]

Richard Thompson Ainsworth

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 […]

Simona Altshuler

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 […]

Brooke Arlington

Brooke Arlington is an instructor in the Legal English Certificate Program (LECP) at BU Law.  She 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 […]

John A. Beccia

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 […]