Constitutional law addresses the scheme of government that the Constitution establishes, the powers that it confers, and the rights that it protects.
James E. Fleming
James E. Fleming writes in constitutional law and constitutional theory and is the author or co-author of five scholarly books and is working on a sixth: “What Shall Be Orthodox” in Polarized Times (with Linda C. McClain, Robert Kent Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law) is Fleming’s and McClain’s current book-in-progress. The […]
Erika George
Erika R. George joined the BU Law faculty in 2024 as the associate dean for equity, justice, & engagement and the Ernest Haddad Faculty Scholar. A leading international expert in the emerging field of business and human rights, Professor George is the author of Incorporating Rights: Strategies to Advance Corporate Accountability (Oxford University Press 2021), which […]
Nicole Huberfeld
Nicole Huberfeld is Edward R. Utley Professor of Health Law at BU School of Law and School of Public Health, where she is faculty in the Health Law Program and Co-Director of the BU Program on Reproductive Justice. Her research studies the intersection of health law and constitutional law, often focusing on federalism while studying […]
Sean J. Kealy
Sean Kealy graduated from Temple Law School in 1994. He was an assistant attorney general from 1995-1999 where he worked on victim compensation claims and prosecuted insurance fraud. From 1999-2007 he worked as legal advisor to State Senator Cynthia Stone Creem (D-Newton) and counsel to the General Courts Joint Committee on Criminal Justice and the […]
Steven Arrigg Koh
Steven Arrigg Koh teaches and writes in the areas of criminal law, constitutional law, and international law. His interdisciplinary scholarship bridges theory and practice, drawing on sociological theories to deepen institutionally grounded analyses of U.S. federal and international legal systems. His research has appeared or is forthcoming in journals such as New York University Law Review, Duke […]
Susan P. Koniak
Professor Susan Koniak says the key to being a good legal teacher is to never lose sight of one’s key responsibility: to produce good lawyers. “When I’m standing in front of the students, it’s not about me, it’s about them. It’s my responsibility to ensure that they have a solid understanding of the material, and […]
Gerald F. Leonard
Gerald Leonard is a leading historian of American constitutionalism. He is the author of two books that helped launch and extend the “constitutional politics,” or “popular constitutionalism,” approach to American constitutional history: The Partisan Republic: Democracy, Exclusion, and the Fall of the Founders’ Constitution, 1780s-1830s (Cambridge University Press, 2019) (with Saul Cornell), and The Invention of Party […]
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 joined the BU Law faculty in 2020 as 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. Professor Robertson is an expert in health law, institutional design, and decision making. His […]
Jessica Silbey
Jessica Silbey teaches and writes in the areas of intellectual property, constitutional law, and law and the humanities. In addition to a law degree, she has a PhD in comparative literature and draws on her studies of literature and film to better account for law’s force, both its effectiveness and failing as socio-political regulation. In […]