BU Law Welcomes Associate Professor Rory Van Loo to Full-Time Faculty

The former Harvard Law School lecturer will teach Contracts, Commercial Law, and Law of Consumer Markets beginning this fall.

Rory Van Loo, a former Harvard Law School lecturer who worked for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and McKinsey & Co., will join the full-time faculty of Boston University School of Law as an associate professor of law. Starting this fall, he will teach Commercial Law, Contracts, and a seminar on the Law of Consumer Markets.

Professor Van Loo’s research focuses on the laws governing mass transactions between large companies and individual consumers. His writing on this topic has appeared in publications such as the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Yale Journal on Regulation, and Harvard Law Review.

During his four years at McKinsey & Co., Van Loo conducted quantitative empirical studies for multinational consumer companies in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, organizational design, and sales. At the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, he was the lead author of the agency’s first strategic plan for supervising large banks.

Van Loo earned a BA, magna cum laude, from Pomona College, a JD, magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School, and a PhD, with distinction, from Yale Law School.