Full-time professors and clinical instructors
Marni Goldstein Caputo
Marni Goldstein Caputo is a Lawyering Skills professor and also teaches Introduction to American Law. She has taught legal writing, research, and advocacy for nearly two decades at both BU School of Law and Harvard Law School. She has also worked as an international career advisor at Harvard, a Staff Attorney at the First Circuit […]
Carliss Chatman
Carliss Chatman specializes in the fields of corporate law, commercial law, race and entrepreneurship, and ethics. Her scholarship has appeared in journals such as UCLA Law Review, Michigan Journal of Race and the Law, Texas Law Review, UC Irvine Law Review, Washington & Lee Law Review, and SMU Law Review. In addition, she is the […]
Madison Condon
Madison Condon joined Boston University School of Law as an associate professor in July 2020. She teaches Environmental Law, Corporations, and a seminar on climate risk and financial institutions. Professor Condon is an expert on climate change, financial risk, and regulation. Her scholarship has been included in collections of the best articles of the year for several […]
Chris Conley
Christopher Conley is a lecturer and clinical instructor in the BU/MIT Student Innovations Law Clinic. Prior to joining BU, Conley spent over a decade as a technology policy attorney with the ACLU of Northern California, where he engaged in legislative advocacy, litigation, and public education on issues including privacy, surveillance, and free expression and their intersection […]
Laura E. D’Amato
Laura D’Amato teaches first-year Lawyering Skills and upper-class Persuasive Writing at BU Law. She is the 2023 recipient of the Michael Melton Award for Excellence in Teaching. In 2024, she completed a two-year rotation as director of the Lawyering Program. Prior to joining BU Law, Laura was a litigation partner at Goulston & Storrs PC, where […]
Julie A. Dahlstrom
Julie Dahlstrom assumed her role of Associate Dean of Clinical & Experiential Education on July 1, 2023, after over ten years teaching and supervising student attorneys in the experiential program at BU. Dahlstrom began her clinical teaching career as the founder and director of the Human Trafficking Clinic, which was named one of the most […]
Steven Dean
Steven Dean is internationally recognized for his work on the political economy of taxation, philanthropy, and social enterprise. He has published several books, including the award-winning For-Profit Philanthropy: Elite Power and the Threat of Limited Liability Companies, Donor-Advised Funds, and Strategic Corporate Giving (Oxford 2023), coauthored with Dana Brakman Reiser. He has also published articles […]
Kate Devlin Joyce
Kate Devlin Joyce is a clinical associate professor and director of the externship programs. She sees externships as a means of integrating doctrinal and experiential teaching. Devlin Joyce focuses her work on developing methods of teaching externship seminars that help students to better understand the connections between their doctrinal courses and their practical legal experiences. Prior […]
Anna di Robilant
Professor Anna di Robilant is a property law scholar trained in both Europe and the United States. She writes and teaches in the areas of property law, property theory, legal history, and comparative law. Professor di Robilant has published extensively in both peer-reviewed and student-edited journals, including the Vanderbilt Law Review, the American Journal of […]
Shira M. Diner
Shira Diner is a Lecturer and Clinical Instructor in the Defender Clinic at Boston University School of Law. Prior to her work at BU, she was the Director of Associate Development and Recruitment at Todd & Weld LLP. Previously, she served as a public defender with the Committee for Public Counsel Services (CPCS) for 17 […]