Full-Time Professors, Clinical Instructors, and Visiting Faculty
Claire Bishop Abely
Before joining the Lawyering Program, Claire Abely was an Instructor of Legal Writing at Vanderbilt University Law School. Prior to that, she was a Legal Writing Instructor in the Law School’s LL.M. Writing Program. In addition, Ms. Abely has worked for the Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands and was an associate […]
Aziza Ahmed
Aziza Ahmed’s scholarship examines the intersection of law, politics, and science in the fields of constitutional law, criminal law, health law, and family law. Before joining Boston University School of Law, Ahmed was professor of law at University of California, Irvine School of Law. She also taught at Northeastern University School of Law. She has […]
Zohra Ahmed
Zohra Ahmed writes and teaches about the US carceral state and US militarism. She examines how law and political economy shape the distribution of state violence, and studies the social movements that have risen up to challenge criminalization and militarization. Her scholarship has been published or is forthcoming in the Columbia Law Review, UCLA Law […]
Susan M. Akram
Professor Susan Akram directs BU Law’s International Human Rights Clinic, in which she supervises students engaged in international advocacy in domestic, international, regional, and UN fora. Her research and publications focus on immigration, asylum, refugee, forced migration, and human and civil rights issues, with an interest in the Middle East, the Arab, and Muslim world. […]
George J. Annas
George Annas is the William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor and chair of the Health Law, Bioethics & Human Rights Department of Boston University School of Public Health. He is also a professor in the Boston University School of Medicine and the School of Law. He is the cofounder of Global Lawyers and Physicians, a transnational […]
Brooke Arlington
Brooke Arlington received her B.A. magna cum laude in psychology from the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. She then moved to Tsu City, Japan to teach at a private English conversation school for one year. She taught students of all ages and abilities and travelled extensively within the country. Upon returning to […]
Cecily Banks
Cecily Banks is a lecturer and director of the School of Law’s Corporate Counsel Externship Program. Banks joined the faculty in 2017 to launch the law school’s externship program devoted to corporate counsel placements. Through this program, BU law students train for academic credit in the in-house legal offices of corporations in Boston and beyond. Banks teaches […]
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 […]
Jade Brown
Jade Brown is a Clinical Associate Professor of Law in the Civil Litigation & Justice Program (CLJP) at Boston University School of Law. Jade teaches the art of lawyering in the CLJP’s clinics, in which students practice employment, housing, and family law in the context of analyzing issues of systemic justice. Previously, Jade was a […]