Lecturers and Adjunct Professors

Cristina Freitas

Cristina F. Freitas joins Boston University School of Law’s faculty as a part-time Lecturer in the Health Justice Practicum. She is a partner at Freitas & Freitas, LLP in Lowell, Massachusetts. She has been in practice for over 13 years, having served as both a staff attorney at CPCS and in private practice. Her practice […]

Debbie Freitas

Debbie F. Freitas joins Boston University School of Law’s faculty as a part-time Lecturer in the Health Justice Practicum. She is a partner at Freitas & Freitas, LLP in Lowell, Massachusetts. She has been in practice for over 13 years, having served as both a staff attorney at CPCS and in private practice. Her practice […]

Kristina Audrey Fried

Kristina Fried is a Lecturer in Law with the International Human Rights Clinic, where she supervises projects involving statelessness and refugee law. Her areas of expertise include international human rights law, public international law, reparatory justice, refugee law, and statelessness, with a focus on Haiti and the Middle East region. Her work has appeared in […]

Stuart E. Fross

Stuart Fross is a partner with Foley & Lardner LLP where he concentrates his practice on securities laws and regulations, as part of the Private Equity & Venture Capital, Transactional & Securities and International Practices. Mr. Fross’ main focus is investment managers and pooled investment vehicles, including U.S. registered open-end, closed end and exchange traded […]

Deborah Garza

Deborah Garza has been practicing antitrust law for about 40 years in both the private and public sector.  She served three times in the U.S. Justice Department Antitrust Division between 1981 and 1989, as a Special Assistant, Chief of Staff and Counselor to the Assistant Attorney General, Deputy Attorney General and Acting Assistant Attorney General.  […]

Lisa Geller

Lisa Geller has over 25 years of experience practicing intellectual property law and strategy.  She is the principal of Intellectual Property Strategy, LLC, and advises life science and pharmaceutical companies on all aspects of intellectual property including patents, trademarks, and trade secrets, emphasizing both short- and long-term strategies and integration of global intellectual property strategy […]

Yasmin Ghassab

Yasmin Ghassab is currently counsel at Vertex. Before making the switch to in-house, Ms. Ghassab worked as an intellectual property associate at DLA Piper, LLP and Holland & Knight, LLP in Boston, focusing her practice primarily on patent, copyright, and trade secret litigation. Ms. Ghassab received her B.A., cum laude, from Ohio State University and […]

Jack Godleski

John “Jack” Godleski is a part-time lecturer for Boston University School of Law’s Compassionate Release Practicum. Mr. Godleski is currently a solo practitioner with offices in Greenfield, MA. He earned a JD from the Western New England School of Law in 2013 and has been practicing criminal law for over ten years. His law practice […]