Full-Time Professors, Clinical Instructors, and Visiting Faculty
Katharine B. Silbaugh
Katharine Silbaugh is widely recognized for her pioneering work on gender, family and household labor, and adolescent interaction with the legal system. Her research highlights the economic and social value of work done within households; the complex relationship between families and institutions, such as employers, schools, and commercial entities; and the inadequacy of the legal […]
Jessica Silbey
Jessica Silbey teaches and writes in the areas of intellectual property and technology law, constitutional law, and law and the humanities. In addition to a law degree, she has a PhD in comparative literature and draws on her studies of literature and film to better account for law’s force and limitations. In 2018, she was a Guggenheim […]
Theodore S. Sims
Following law school, Theodore Sims clerked for the Honorable John C. Godbold, of the United States Court of Appeals for the (then) 5th Circuit, practiced with (then) Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, in Washington, DC, and served with the Office of Tax Policy of the United States Treasury. Upon leaving government service in 1981 he joined […]
Robert D. Sloane
After receiving his JD in 2000, Professor Robert D. Sloane worked for the International Committee of Lawyers for Tibet (now known as Tibet Justice Center) under the auspices of Yale Law School’s Robert L. Bernstein Fellowship in International Human Rights. He led fact-finding missions to Nepal, India, and Tibet; wrote submissions for the UN Commission […]
Jessica A. Stanton
Jessica Stanton is an associate professor of political science at Temple University. Her research focuses on international relations and international law, including the impact of law on the dynamics and resolution of civil wars; domestic and international criminal accountability for wartime violence and terrorism; and the influence of law and institutions in international affairs more […]
Maya Steinitz
Professor Maya Steinitz teaches civil procedure, international arbitration, and international business transactions. Her research focuses on a wide range of topics including the intersection of civil litigation and corporate law, public and business international law, transnational dispute resolution, and the global legal profession. She is one of the nation’s leading experts on litigation finance. Her […]
Laura Stephens
Request an appointment Laura Stephens is a graduate of the BU Law Health Law Program. Following a judicial clerkship with the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island in Providence, she practiced law in the Office of the General Counsel for Mass General Brigham in Boston for 25 years before returning to the […]
Rephael G. Stern
Professor Rephael Stern writes and teaches in the areas of administrative law, constitutional law, international law, property, legal history, and comparative law. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in the Yale Law Journal, Constitutional Commentary, and the peer-reviewed journals of Law and History Review and Comparative Studies in Society and History, among other venues. Stern […]
Paul G. Sweeney – (On Leave)
Paul Sweeney is Professor of the Practice of Law and Director of the Transactional Law Program at BU School of Law. Professor Sweeney brings to the School of Law over 26 years of experience as a leading transactional business lawyer, including 19 years practicing in the Boston office of Foley Hoag, LLP, where he was […]
Victoria Tang
Victoria Tang joins Boston University School of Law as a lecturer and clinical instructor in the BU/MIT Student Innovations Law Clinic, which provides experiential education through legal assistance to the next generation of creators, researchers, and tech advocates. Before arriving at BU Law, Victoria served as a clinical supervisor and staff attorney at the East […]