Full-Time Professors, Clinical Instructors, and Visiting Faculty

Wendy K. Mariner

Professor Wendy Mariner’s research focuses on laws governing health risks, including social and personal responsibility for risk creation in conceptions of insurance, as well as national health systems, including the Affordable Care Act and ERISA, health information privacy, and population health policy. She has published more than 100 articles in the legal, medical and health […]

Stephen G. Marks

Stephen Marks has been a distinguished member of the Boston University community for many years. He began his teaching career in 1981 at the University’s School of Management, where he taught courses in banking, finance, investments, corporations, economics and decision making. Since joining the School of Law faculty in 1988, Professor Marks has taught courses […]

Pierluigi Matera

Pierluigi Matera – LLB (Hons) (LUISS), PhD (Unisa), is a corporate law scholar and attorney with extensive experience in both U.S. and European company law. His teaching and research focus on comparative law, sports law, and corporate law—with particular emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, corporate litigation, the history of business corporations, and the evolving intersection between […]

Linda C. McClain

Linda C. McClain is known for her work in family law, gender and law, and feminist legal theory. Her most recent book, Who’s the Bigot? Learning from Conflicts over Marriage and Civil Rights Law (Oxford University Press, 2020), argues that, although denouncing and preventing bigotry is a shared political value with a long history, people […]

Elizabeth McCuskey

Elizabeth McCuskey is Professor of Health Law Policy & Management at the BU School of Public Health and BU School of Law, and Assistant Director of the Center for Law, Ethics, & Human Rights. Her research focuses on how state and local governments pursue legal reforms that promote health equity – especially insurance and access […]

Madeline H. Meth

Madeline (Maddie) Meth joined Boston University School of Law’s faculty in 2023 as a Clinical Associate Professor with the Civil Litigation & Justice Program. She was previously the Deputy Director of Georgetown Law’s Appellate Courts Immersion Clinic (ACIC) where she supervised students working on public-interest cases in federal and state courts of appeals and the […]

Michael J. Meurer

The son of an economics professor, Michael Meurer knew by the time he was 13 that he, too, wanted to teach at the university level. An SB, JD and PhD later, he became an economics professor at Duke University and later a law professor at the University of Buffalo. He came to Boston University School […]

Maria O’Brien

Noted employee benefits law and insurance law specialist Maria O’Brien began her teaching career at Boston University School of Law in 1988. She taught at De Paul University College of Law from 1989 until rejoining the Boston University faculty in 1995, and was a visiting professor at the University of Chicago Law School in 1993. […]

Maureen A. O’Rourke

As dean from 2006 to 2018 and interim dean from 2004 to 2006, Maureen A. O’Rourke oversaw the construction of the five-story, state-of-the-art Sumner M. Redstone Building and gut renovation of the adjacent law tower. This project was the culmination of decades of planning and provides students with first-rate community spaces, high quality classrooms, and amenities. Dean O’Rourke also […]

Ngozi Okidegbe

Ngozi Okidegbe is an Associate Professor of Law and Assistant Professor of Computing & Data Sciences. Her focus is in the areas of law and technology, evidence, criminal procedure, and racial justice. Her work examines how the use of predictive technologies in the criminal justice system impacts racially marginalized communities.  Professor Okidegbe is a Faculty Associate […]