Full-Time Professors, Clinical Instructors, and Visiting Faculty

Claire Bishop Abely

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 […]

Aziza Ahmed

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 […]

Zohra Ahmed

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 […]

Susan M. Akram

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. […]

Brooke Arlington

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 […]

Emmanuel Hiram Arnaud

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, […]

Cecily Banks

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 […]

Bradley M. Baranowski

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 […]

Jack M. Beermann

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 […]

Jade Brown

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 […]