Vivian Etter

Vivian Etter

Lecturer and Clinical Instructor, BU/MIT Student Innovations Law Clinic


BA, Kent State University
JD, Penn State Law


Biography

Vivian Etter (Licensed as Tyler R Etter) is a Lecturer with the Startup Law Clinic, providing legal advice and guidance to budding entrepreneurs from the BU and MIT student populations.

Prior to joining the BU Law Faculty, Vivian was the first staff attorney with Penn State Law’s Entrepreneur Assistance Clinic, where she was responsible for the day-to-day guidance and oversight of the clinic’s students, consisting of second and third-year law students. The EAC provides no cost legal services to entrepreneurs across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, from formation and organization all the way to potential investment capital rounds. Outside of the EAC, Vivian was also a frequent guest lecturer in various business courses and boot camps within the Penn State network, and frequently gave presentations to business incubators and accelerators around the state.

Vivian obtained a Juris Doctorate in 2017 from the Pennsylvania State University, the Dickinson School of Law (now Penn State Law). She also has a Bachelor’s of Arts in Political Science from Kent State University, obtained in 2014.

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Courses

SILC: Venture and Finance Seminar 1: LAW JD 737

2 credits

THIS CLASS IS RESTRICTED to students who have formally applied to and been accepted to the Student Innovations Law Clinic. The BU/MIT Student Innovations Law Clinic (SILC) provides counseling and guidance to assist MIT and BU students with laws and regulations that relate to their innovation-related academic and extracurricular activities. As a companion to SILC Fieldwork course, in Venture & Finance Seminar 1 students in SILC's Venture & Finance Practice Group meet to review substantive legal issues in corporate law (including partnerships, LLCs, and corporations), business and financial regulation, securities law, and commercial law and regulation. The seminar will also introduce students to the lawyering skills (including interviewing, counseling, negotiation, drafting, etc.) that will help them in counseling MIT and BU students on their creative and innovative projects. This class will occasionally meet with some or all of the students in the other SILC Practice Group sections for clinic-wide discussions and case round presentations. NOTE: This Clinic counts toward the 6 credit Experiential Learning requirement. GRADING NOTICE: This course does not offer the CR/NC/H option.

FALL 2024: LAW JD 737 A1 , Sep 3rd to Dec 5th 2024
Days Start End Credits Instructors Bldg Room
Tue 2:10 pm 4:10 pm 2 Vivian EtterTom Patten LAW 417

SILC: Venture and Finance Seminar 2: LAW JD 738

2 credits

THIS CLASS IS RESTRICTED to students who have formally applied to and been accepted to the Student Innovations Law Clinic. The BU/MIT Student Innovations Law Clinic (SILC) provides counseling and guidance to assist MIT and BU students with laws and regulations that relate to their innovation-related academic and extracurricular activities. As a companion to SILC Fieldwork course, in Venture & Finance Seminar 2 students in SILC's Venture & Finance Practice Group expand upon the legal and practice issues reviewed in the fall seminar, including issues in corporate law (including partnerships, LLCs, and corporations), business and financial regulation, securities law, and commercial law and regulation. This class will occasionally meet with some or all of the students in the other SILC Practice Group sections for clinic-wide discussions and case round presentations. NOTE: This Clinic counts toward the 6 credit Experiential Learning requirement. GRADING NOTICE: This course does not offer the CR/NC/H option.

SPRG 2025: LAW JD 738 A1 , Jan 13th to Apr 23rd 2025
Days Start End Credits Instructors Bldg Room
Tue 2:10 pm 4:10 pm 2 Vivian EtterTom Patten LAW 420

Student Innovations Law Clinic: Fieldwork: LAW JD 725

4 credits

THIS CLASS IS RESTRICTED to students who have formally applied to and been accepted to the Student Innovations Law Clinic. The BU/MIT Student Innovations Law Clinic provides counseling and guidance to assist MIT and BU students with laws and regulations that relate to their innovation-related academic and extracurricular activities. The clinic provides counseling in a variety of different areas of law, organized into three practice groups: (1) Intellectual Property & Media; (2) Privacy, Security, & Health; and (3) Venture & Finance. Representation of clients can include client counseling, contract and policy drafting and review, negotiation with third parties, and, if capacity allows, litigation and other dispute resolution. CO-REQUISITE: If students have not done so already, students must take at least one course in any one of the following four areas: (1) intellectual property (either an IP survey course or other core IP course such as patent, copyright, trademark, or trade secret); (2) privacy (including information privacy law or information risk management); (3) cybersecurity; or (4) corporations. NOTE: The Technology Law Clinic counts toward the 6 credit Experiential Learning requirement. GRADING NOTICE: This course does not offer the CR/NC/H option.

FALL 2024: LAW JD 725 A1 , Sep 3rd to Dec 5th 2024
Days Start End Credits Instructors Bldg Room
ARR 12:00 am 12:00 am 4 Andrew SellarsChris Conley
FALL 2024: LAW JD 725 B1 , Sep 3rd to Dec 5th 2024
Days Start End Credits Instructors Bldg Room
ARR 12:00 am 12:00 am 4 Ari LipsitzVictoria Tang
FALL 2024: LAW JD 725 C1 , Sep 3rd to Dec 5th 2024
Days Start End Credits Instructors Bldg Room
ARR 12:00 am 12:00 am 4 Vivian EtterTom Patten
SPRG 2025: LAW JD 725 A1 , Jan 13th to Apr 23rd 2025
Days Start End Credits Instructors Bldg Room
ARR 12:00 am 12:00 am 4 Andrew SellarsChris Conley
SPRG 2025: LAW JD 725 B1 , Jan 13th to Apr 23rd 2025
Days Start End Credits Instructors Bldg Room
ARR 12:00 am 12:00 am 4 Ari LipsitzVictoria Tang
SPRG 2025: LAW JD 725 C1 , Jan 13th to Apr 23rd 2025
Days Start End Credits Instructors Bldg Room
ARR 12:00 am 12:00 am 4 Vivian EtterTom Patten