The federal courts encompass the U.S. Supreme Court, federal appellate courts, and U.S. district courts.

Bradley M. Baranowski

Brad Baranowski (’20) holds a PhD in American history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a JD from Boston University School of Law. He previously clerked for the Honorable David A. Lowy of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and the Honorable Karen Nelson Moore of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Baranowski was a […]

Jack M. Beermann

Jack Beermann’s scholarship focuses on two areas: civil rights litigation and administrative law. He is an authority on the circumstances under which state and local officials, and local governments, should be held liable for their constitutional violations. “What particularly fascinates me is studying the values underlying our public law system and how social movements and history […]

Portia Pedro

Portia Pedro, a former public interest litigation fellow who also worked as a litigation associate at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, joined the full-time faculty of Boston University School of Law as an associate professor in July 2018. She teaches civil procedure, remedies, and critical civil procedure. Professor Pedro studies the ways in which racial subordination […]

Ann E. Tweedy

Ann E. Tweedy is a Professor of Law at University of South Dakota Knudson School of Law (USD), where she teaches federal Indian law; Tribal law; property; federal courts; gender, sexuality, and law; and conflict of laws. She founded the Indian Law Certificate at USD, which is the law school’s first certificate program. Professor Tweedy […]

Larry Yackle

Larry Yackle has written seven books: Federal Courts: The Current Questions (Carolina Academic Press, 2017); Federal Courts (Carolina Academic Press, 3d ed. 2009); Regulatory Rights: Supreme Court Activism, the Public Interest, and the Making of Constitutional Law (University of Chicago Press, 2007); Federal Courts: Habeas Corpus (Foundation Press, 2003); Reclaiming the Federal Courts (Harvard University Press, 1994); […]