Full-Time Professors, Clinical Instructors, and Visiting Faculty
Angela Onwuachi-Willig
Angela Onwuachi-Willig is dean and Ryan Roth Gallo Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law. A renowned legal scholar and expert in critical race theory, employment discrimination, and family law, she joined the law school as dean in August 2018. Before joining the School of Law, Dean Onwuachi-Willig served as Chancellor’s Professor of Law […]
Kevin Outterson
Kevin Outterson, J.D., LL.M., is Professor of Law and Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Law at Boston University, where he leads the Social Innovation on Drug Resistance program. He is also the founding Executive Director and Principal Investigator of Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Biopharmaceutical Accelerator (CARB-X), a global non-profit partnership funded by the U.S., U.K., and […]
Tom Patten
Tom Patten joins Boston University School of Law’s faculty as a Lecturer of Law in the Student Innovations Law Clinic, providing legal advice and guidance to entrepreneurs from BU and MIT. Prior to joining the BU Law faculty, Tom worked as an in-house counsel to two separate financial technology startup companies, focusing on consumer lending and securities […]
Jef Pearlman
Jef Pearlman is a Clinical Professor and the Executive Director of the BU/MIT Student Innovations Law Clinic (SILC) at Boston University School of Law. Prior to joining the BU faculty, he was a Clinical Professor of Law and the Director of the Intellectual Property & Technology Law Clinic at USC Gould School of Law for […]
Portia Pedro
Portia Pedro, a former public interest litigation fellow who also worked as a litigation associate at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, joined the full-time faculty of Boston University School of Law as an associate professor in July 2018. She teaches civil procedure, remedies, and critical civil procedure. Professor Pedro studies the ways in which racial subordination […]
Rebecca Pendleton
Rebecca Pendleton earned her BA in English from Stephens College in 2000 and her JD from City University of New York (CUNY), School of Law in 2012. Shortly after law school, she combined her passion for language and law to teach LLB and LLM law students at Universidad Externado de Colombia, School of Law using […]
Ayodeji Kamau Perrin
Dr. Ayodeji Kamau Perrin, J.D., Ph.D., is an interdisciplinary scholar of human rights, social movements, and legal mobilization. He is interested in all phases of litigation-based social change processes, including the factors that lead aggrieved individuals and groups to select a litigation-based strategy; the internal dynamics of a social change movement or campaign; countermobilization; the […]
Angelo Petrigh
Angelo Petrigh teaches the Defender Clinic in BU’s Criminal Law Clinical Program. Prior to joining Boston University, he was the Training Director in the Bronx Defenders’ Criminal Defense Practice. In his nearly twelve years of experience, he handled a wide-ranging caseload from low level misdemeanors to homicides. He was responsible for the training and development […]
Karen Pita Loor
Karen J. Pita Loor (KPL) is a Michaels Faculty Research Scholar and Clinical Professor of Law. She is the Director of the Criminal Law Clinical Program and teaches Criminal Law to first year students. Loor previously served as Associate Dean for Experiential Education. Loor has been honored with the Dean’s Scholarship Award, the Dean’s Service […]
Enrique Alberto Prieto-Ríos
Enrique Alberto Prieto-Ríos holds a PhD in Law from Birkbeck, University of London (2017), an MA in International Law from University College London (2008), and an LLB from Universidad del Rosario (2007). Dr. Prieto-Ríos is currently the Chief Editor of Estudios Socio-Jurídicos, an esteemed academic journal, and has previously served as Research Director of the […]