Full-Time Professors, Clinical Instructors, and Visiting Faculty

Cody Jacobs

Cody Jacobs joined the Lawyering Program at Boston University School of Law in 2019. He has been teaching legal research and writing for four years, most recently as a visiting assistant professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law, and prior to that as an Abraham L. Friedman Fellow at Temple University’s Beasley School of Law where he […]

Sean J. Kealy

Sean Kealy graduated from Temple Law School in 1994. He was an assistant attorney general from 1995-1999 where he worked on victim compensation claims and prosecuted insurance fraud. From 1999-2007 he worked as legal advisor to State Senator Cynthia Stone Creem (D-Newton) and counsel to the General Court’s Joint Committee on Criminal Justice and the […]

Sapna Khatri

Sapna Khatri is a reproductive justice attorney with an expertise in policy advocacy for reproductive health access and enhanced privacy protections. She serves the Executive Director of the BU Program on Reproductive Justice. Before joining BU Law, Sapna was the inaugural Director of the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Reproductive Justice Unit. Her work included expanding and […]

Elizabeth King

Elizabeth King is a scholar of corporate governance, corporate finance, and nonprofit law. Her research explores the impact of markets and regulation on nonprofit organizations. She is particularly interested in the role of nonprofit hospitals and the rise of for-profit corporations in the healthcare sector. Her work has appeared in publications such as the Yale […]

Steven Arrigg Koh

Steven Arrigg Koh teaches and writes in criminal law, foreign relations law, international law, and constitutional law. His interdisciplinary scholarship bridges theory and practice, drawing on sociological frameworks to deepen institutionally grounded analyses of U.S. federal and international legal systems. His research has appeared or is forthcoming in New York University Law Review, Cornell Law Review, […]

Jetson Leder-Luis

Jetson Leder-Luis, PhD is an assistant professor at Boston University and a Faculty Research Fellow at the NBER. He also is a professor by courtesy at Boston University School of Law and at the Department of Economics. His research addresses fraud, misreporting and overbilling in public programs, especially in the Medicare program, as well as […]

Gerald F. Leonard

Gerald Leonard is a leading historian of American constitutionalism. He is the author of two books that helped launch and extend the “constitutional politics,” or “popular constitutionalism,” approach to American constitutional history: The Partisan Republic: Democracy, Exclusion, and the Fall of the Founders’ Constitution, 1780s-1830s (Cambridge University Press, 2019) (with Saul Cornell), and The Invention of Party […]

Ari Lipsitz

Ari is thrilled to join the BU Law Faculty as a Lecturer and Clinical Instructor with the BU/MIT Law Clinics. Ari’s intellectual property practice focuses on providing reasoned, empathetic counseling for early-stage companies, creatives, and entrepreneurs.    Prior to joining BU Law, Ari practiced intellectual property law for five years, first at Kirkland & Ellis […]

Kathleen Luz

Kathleen Luz 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. Prior to joining BU Law full-time, she taught as an adjunct at both BU Law and BU’s Questrom School of Business. Her research interests include skills-based teaching pedagogy, learning […]

Naomi M. Mann

Naomi Mann is the Executive Director of the Civil Litigation & Justice Program. She is Founding Director of the Access to Justice Clinic (A2J Clinic), an innovative clinic which pairs individual client representation with systems change projects. Students in A2J represent individual clients facing multiple systemic barriers (e.g., gender, race, class, and disability) in housing, […]