BU Law Welcomes New Faculty

Incoming professors bring expertise in health care and economics, international law, IP law, and estate planning.

Boston University School of Law has for years been noted for its outstanding faculty. The School continues to enhance that reputation with this year’s appointments of two full-time professors, a new clinic director, and four visiting professors

Full-Time Professors

Kathryn Zeiler, an expert in health care law and economics who previously taught at Georgetown Law School, joins BU Law’s full-time faculty as professor of law and Nancy Barton Scholar. Zeiler’s research focuses on health care law and economics, medical malpractice liability and insurance, disclosure regulation, experimental economics, and behavioral law and economics. As a visiting professor at BU Law from 2013 to 2015, she taught in the Health Law Program and organized the Seminar in Law and Economics workshop, which invites prominent law professors and practitioners from around the country to apply economic analysis to a variety of legal issues. Zeiler has also been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and New York University School of Law. She served as a member of the board of directors of the American Law and Economics Association from 2010 to 2012, and is currently serving on the editorial board of the American Law and Economics Review and on the board of the Society for Empirical Legal Studies. She is a member of the Max Planck Institute’s Scientific Review Board for Research on Collective Goods.

Rebecca Ingber joins the School of Law faculty as associate professor of law, after serving as an associate in law at Columbia Law School. Focusing her scholarship on international law, national security, the laws of war, and executive branch decision-making, she has been published in the Harvard International Law Journal, the Yale Journal of International Law, and the Texas International Law Journal. Prior to joining academia, Ingber worked for the US Department of State for six years, most recently as the principal staff attorney for domestic and foreign litigation issues involving the law of armed conflict. She is currently a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a consulting fellow for law and strategy with the International Institute for Strategic Studies. At BU Law, she will teach public international law, international business transactions, and a seminar on contemporary issues in law and war.

Clinic Director

Eve Brown joins BU Law as a clinical instructor and director of the Entrepreneurship & IP Law Clinic, new in Fall 2015. Previously Brown, whose research interests focus on intellectual property and entrepreneurship law, was practitioner in residence and director of the Intellectual Property Entrepreneurship Clinic at Suffolk University Law School. From 2007 to 2012, Brown taught at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business, where she was awarded the Trustees Teaching Award and the Innovative Teaching Award, and was named Kappa Alpha Theta Outstanding Professor and Student Choice Award nominee. Prior to teaching, Brown practiced as an attorney for the San Diego office of Ross Dixon & Bell and the Affirmative Civil Enforcement Unit of the United States’ Attorney’s Office and was an extern for the Honorable Frank C. Damrell of the United States District Court. As director of the clinic, Brown will supervise student attorneys representing new and early-stage businesses seeking to commercialize innovative technologies, products, and services.

Visiting Professors

Michael J. Glennon is professor of international law at the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy at Tufts University. Prior to joining Fletcher in 2002, Glennon was legal counsel to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has served as a consultant to various congressional committees, the US State Department, and the International Atomic Energy Agency. He has taught at Vytautus Magnus University School of Law in Lithuania, the United States Military Academy, the University of Paris II (Panthéon-Assas), and the Hague Academy of International Law. He is a member of the American Law Institute, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law. Glennon is the author of numerous articles on constitutional and international law as well as several books, including his most recent, National Security and Double Government (Oxford University Press, 2014).

Cosette Creamer joins BU law as a visiting assistant professor where she will advise the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition team and teach in the area of international law. She is currently completing her PhD in political science at Harvard University, where she teaches courses in international law, human rights, and comparative policing practices. Her research and publications rest at the intersection of international and comparative law, politics, and the empirical analysis of law, with a substantive focus on international trade, human rights, criminal law, and the laws of war. She has worked previously at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia and the Sierra Leone Court Monitoring Program.

Lee-Ford Tritt is professor of law at the University of Florida’s Levin College of Law. There he serves as director of the Center for Estate Planning, director of the Estates & Trusts Practice Certificate Program, and associate director of the Center on Children and Families in addition to teaching courses in trusts and estates, fiduciary administration, and estate planning. He was named the College of Law Professor of the Year from 2008 to 2013, received the University of Florida’s Presidential Award for Excellence in Education in 2010, and was honored with the John Marshall Bar Association College of Law Lifetime Achievement Award for Teaching and the University of Florida’s Impact Award in 2012. He is a fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel and a contributing editor to the Trusts & Estates section of the Jotwell Law Literature Review. Before joining the College of Law in 2005, he practiced as an attorney with Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy and Davis Polk & Wardwell.

Natasha Varyani joins BU Law as a visiting assistant professor of law. She comes from New England Law where she was a faculty fellow. Having spent almost a decade in private practice, she specialized in and continues to focus her scholarship in the area of state and local tax of multi-jurisdictional businesses. She has been published in the Oklahoma City University Law Review on the topic of technology pushing the evolution of state taxation, and has presented on the same topic several times. She has been a leader of both local and national South Asian Bar Associations as well as co-chair of the Boston Bar Association’s committee on state and local taxation.