Andrew Sellars, the founding director of the Technology Law Clinic, has been named a clinical associate professor. In the Technology Law Clinic, BU Law students counsel undergraduate and graduate students at MIT and BU on laws and regulations that affect their research, advocacy, and innovation, including matters related to intellectual property, media law, data privacy, and cybersecurity law. Sellars has overseen the legal representation of hundreds of student clients through his work in the clinic, representing computer security researchers, public interest advocates on technology and society issues, creators of innovative new technologies, and student journalists. His scholarship focuses on application of intellectual property and computer access laws to technology research and journalism, including permissionless investigation of technology systems.

Sellars is a Civic Tech Fellow at BU’s Faculty of Computing and Data Sciences, a faculty affiliate at BU’s Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering, and a member of the Boston Bar Association. Before joining BU, Sellars was the Corydon B. Dunham First Amendment Fellow at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. There, he worked in Harvard Law School’s Cyberlaw Clinic and the Digital Media Law Project. Sellars received his JD with high honors from the George Washington University Law School, where he was awarded the Jan Jancin Award from the American Intellectual Property Law Association, given to the top intellectual property law student in the country.

Jordana Goodman (’15) returns to Boston University School of Law as the visiting clinical assistant professor of the BU/MIT Technology Law Clinic. She supervises BU Law students offering pro bono legal guidance to BU and MIT students on topics affecting their research and innovation.

Her research focuses on gender and race equity issues in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), concentrating on intellectual property ownership and recognition as advancement tools for systemically underrepresented people in STEM fields.

Before joining the clinic, Goodman worked as a patent prosecutor at Danielson Legal LLC, where she composed patent applications, PCTs, and office action responses for technologies related to medication, batteries, molecules, filtration devices, mechanical devices, computer systems, software, and computer hardware. She was also an adjunct legal research and writing professor at New England Law.

Goodman was a Paul J. Liacos Distinguished Scholar and graduated, cum laude, from Boston University School of Law in intellectual property law in 2015. She received her BS, magna cum laude, in chemistry and anthropology from Brandeis University in 2012 and her MS in chemical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 2020. She is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and before the United States Patent & Trademark Office.

Evan Darryl Walton is a visiting professor in the Startup Law Clinic, where BU Law students represent MIT and BU students in various aspects of establishing and operating early-stage business ventures and protecting intellectual property.

Before joining the BU Law faculty, Walton was the inaugural Jeff & Cynthia Harris Fellow with the Entrepreneurial Business Law Clinic at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, where he cotaught the clinical seminar class and supervised third-year law students on small business, nonprofit and intellectual property client matters. He also held a fellowship at Wake Forest University School of Law, where he worked with students in the law school’s Community Law & Business Clinic and Veterans Legal Clinic and executed special projects for the dean’s office, including managing logistics for the law school’s Charlotte, NC blockchain CLE event.

Walton received a JD from the Wake Forest in 2018, where cofounded the law school’s Transactional Law Competition. He also holds an undergraduate degree in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a certificate in nonprofit management from Duke University.

Before law school, Darryl worked in business operations at for-profit and nonprofit entities.

Professor Ahmad’s primary research interest is in the area of international human rights law. Her dissertation, for which she was an awarded a Doctor of Juridical Science by the Case Western Reserve University School of Law, focused on developing a legal framework for armed humanitarian interventions.

Previously, she earned an LLM in International Law from the University of Michigan Law School and completed her BA and LLB from the Lahore University of Management Sciences, in Pakistan.

She has taught Public International Law, International Human Rights, and Legal Writing and Research at law schools in the Middle East and Pakistan. She is a member of the New York Bar.

Sahar Aziz joins BU Law in the fall 2021 as the William & Patricia Kleh Visiting Professor in International Law. She is a faculty member at Rutgers Law School, where she also serves as Chancellor’s Social Justice Scholar and Middle East Legal Studies Scholar, as well as the founding director of the Rutgers Center for Security, Race, and Rights. 

Professor Aziz’s scholarship examines the intersections of national security, race, and civil rights with a focus on the adverse impact of post-9/11 national security laws and policies on racial, ethnic, and religious minorities in the US. She analyzes these issues in various contexts including employment, counterterrorism, criminal justice, and civil rights litigation.

Professor Aziz’s research investigates the relationship between authoritarianism, terrorism, and rule of law in Egypt. Her forthcoming book, titled The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom, examines how religious bigotry racializes immigrant Muslims through a historical and comparative approach. Professor Aziz teaches courses on national security, critical race theory, Islamophobia, evidence, torts, and Middle East law. At BU Law, she will teach National Security Law and a new course, Global Islamophobia.  

Due to Professor Aziz’s scholarly commitment to social justice, she was recognized by the American Association of Law Schools with the Derrick Bell Award and served as a nonresident fellow at the Brookings Institution-Doha. In 2020, Professor Aziz was named a Middle Eastern and North African American National Security and Foreign Policy Next Generation Leader by New America, a Washington, DC-based think tank. 

Professor Aziz is an editor for the Arab Law Quarterly, the International Journal of Middle East Studies, and the Race and the Law Prof blog. Her work is published widely, including the Harvard National Security Journal, and Washington and Lee Law Review. Global news outlets such as the New York Times, CNN, Al Jazeera English, and BBC World rely on Professor Aziz’s commentary.

Professor Aziz began her legal career as a litigation associate for WilmerHale, where she conducted an independent human rights investigation on child trafficking in the Middle East. In 2008, she served as senior policy advisor for the Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at the US Department of Homeland Security. Her litigation continued at Cohen Milstein Sellers and Toll PLLP in Washington, DC, representing plaintiffs for Title VII class actions such as gender discrimination in pay and promotion.

Professor Aziz earned a JD and MA in Middle East Studies from the University of Texas. She clerked for the Honorable Andre M. Davis on the US District Court for the District of Maryland. She serves on the board of directors of ReThink Media, the Project on Democracy in the Middle East, and Democracy in the Arab World Now.

Nicola “Nicky” Boothe is a tenured professor, former associate dean of academic affairs, and former interim dean at Florida A&M University College of Law. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Florida and her law degree, cum laude, from Florida State University College of Law. She is a certified speaker for the Florida Department of Insurance and holds certifications for interviewing and counseling in the legal field. With almost a decade of litigation experience before joining the legal academy, Professor Boothe was instrumental in establishing FAMU Law’s Guardian Ad Litem Clinic, and has taught Torts, Professional Responsibility, Florida Criminal & Civil Procedure and Practice, Federal Civil Procedure, an Ethics & Professionalism seminar. She has also taught Consumer Law and created and taught a Mindfulness in Life and Law seminar.

Professor Boothe’s scholarship addresses issues of human trafficking, social media, and the legal profession including legal professionalism and ethics. Recognized as a leader in the field of professionalism and ethics, she is a fellow for the National Institute for Teaching Ethics and Professionalism and has articles published widely including in the Georgetown Law Journal, Marquette Law Review, Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law, Pace Law Review, University of Florida Journal of Law and Public Policy, American University of Gender, Social Policy, & the Law, New Mexico Law Review, Nebraska Law Review, and Loyola Law Review. She has served as a speaker, panelist and commentator at a number of national conferences and has also won several awards for her pro bono participation in the Florida Juvenile Dependency System. Instrumental in the formation of the Florida Law Schools’ Consortium for Racial Justice, Professor Boothe is actively involved in antiracism activities throughout the academy.

Hughes received a BS in biology from Texas Southern University. While in college, she was student body president and a biomedical researcher at Baylor College of Medicine, receiving the NIH/MARC Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award. Thereafter, she completed her JD at the University of Miami School of Law, where she was an inaugural Miami Scholar, an editorial board member of the University of Miami School of Law International and Comparative Law Review, and a member of the International Moot Court Board. She later completed public policy fellowships at the University of Virginia in the Sorensen Institute and at the Aspen Institute, where she is a Rodel Fellow and member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. She was also a delegate to the American Council on Young Political Leaders (Australia 2010) and is currently pursuing an Executive EdD in Higher Education Management at the University of Pennsylvania. Her work at UPenn focuses on economic modeling for novel bridge education programs that streamline the cost of education by sharing efficiencies between secondary public-school systems and universities while increasing college readiness for urban students.

Hughes recently decided to pursue a tenure-track faculty position in law and plans to work on scholarship while serving as a visiting lecturer at Boston University School of Law. Previously, she spent time at Widener University’s Delaware Law School, teaching intellectual property, and she is a lecturer in business law at the University of Texas McCombs School of Business. Her academic and policy interests include education equity, pharma patent law, and health policy.

Hughes’ current projects include writing a text on pharma patent prosecution, writing a note on what COVID has taught us about US capacity to provide universal healthcare and the disparate adverse impacts our current system has on Black women, and writing a note to support passage of voting rights legislation with a multi-generational reauthorization impact.

Hughes has diverse professional experience. She associated with a large South Florida firm right after law school and immediately thereafter completed a federal clerkship in the US District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. She has experience at all levels of government, with experience in all three branches of the federal government (USPTO; US House of Representatives; and US District Court as a federal law clerk). While on Capitol Hill, she worked for Hon. Bill Richardson, the late Hon. Juanita Millender McDonald, and Hon. John Tierney. She wrote health policy and cofounded the Congressional Universal Healthcare Task Force, later becoming an elected official in her own right.

As a personal passion, Hughes is dedicated to improving student success outcomes, closing the minority achievement gap, improving education equity, and ensuring students educated in the US are globally competitive. She developed a proprietary program that blends foreign language immersion with STEAM subject matter in a values-based program with a boarding-optional component, and an accompanying assessment tool. She is also an arts enthusiast, and in her private time, she enjoys serving as vice president of the Delaware Symphony Orchestra. She is also National Bar Association parliamentarian and chief policy advisor, overseeing management of programming and legislative initiatives.

Lizotte began her career as an assistant corporation counsel in the City of Boston Law Department in 2006. She became a senior assistant corporation counsel in 2012 and joined the Boston Public Schools as legal advisor in 2019. Prior to joining the city, Lizotte clerked for the Massachusetts Superior Court. She also taught in the Legal Research and Writing Program at New England Law, Boston for eight years. She graduated from Saint Anselm College, cum laude, in 2000 and Suffolk University Law School, cum laude, in 2006.