Full-time professors and clinical instructors
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 in the Defender Clinic. His scholarship examines the unspoken rules and pressures on legal actors that influence the actual operation of criminal law, such as the structural incentives placed on judges, defenders, and prosecutors. His scholarship has appeared in the Boston University Law Review and the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology. Prior […]
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 […]
Benjamin David Pyle
Benjamin Pyle teaches and writes in empirical legal studies, employment law, and criminal law, with a particular focus on how the law influences employment prospects and post-conviction opportunities for people with criminal records. He has published work in law reviews and peer-reviewed journals, including the Notre Dame Law Review and the International Review of Law […]
Weijia Rao
Weijia Rao’s research applies empirical methods to the study of international and comparative law, with a focus on legal institutions governing global trade and investment. Her work has examined the influence of global businesses on government regulations, the role of domestic politics in international dispute resolution, the evolution and impacts of international investment agreements, and […]
Jarrod F. Reich
Jarrod Reich is Senior Lecturer in the Lawyering program. He most recently served as a Professor of Legal Writing at the University of Miami School of Law, where he taught first-year and upper-level writing courses and evidence. Previously, he served on the faculties of Georgetown University Law Center and Florida State University College of Law, […]
Christopher Robertson
Christopher Robertson is a tenured professor and N. Neal Pike Scholar in Health & Disability Law. He is also a Professor of Health Law, Policy & Management in the BU School of Public Health. In Fall 2025 he is on leave, serving as a visiting professor at Harvard Law School. Professor Robertson is an expert […]
Victoria Sahani
Victoria Shannon Sahani is a Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law and previously served as the Associate Provost for Community and Inclusion at Boston Universityfrom 2022-2025. Before joining BU, she served as Associate Dean of Faculty Development / Special Projects and Professor of Law at Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College […]
Sarah R. Sherman-Stokes
Sarah Sherman-Stokes is a clinical associate professor at Boston University School of Law. Ms. Sherman-Stokes teaches Immigration Law and is the associate director of the Immigrants’ Rights & Human Trafficking Clinic. Her scholarship takes a critical look at immigration law and policy, including at the intersections of asylum law, detention and deportation, and immigrant surveillance, enforcement […]