Full-time professors and clinical instructors

Sarah R. Sherman-Stokes

Sarah Sherman-Stokes is a clinical associate professor at Boston University School of Law. Ms. Sherman-Stokes teaches Immigration Law and is the associate director of the Immigrants’ Rights & Human Trafficking Clinic. Her scholarship takes a critical look at immigration law and policy, including at the intersections of asylum law, detention and deportation, and immigrant surveillance, enforcement […]

Jed Handelsman Shugerman

Jed Handelsman Shugerman joined BU Law in 2023 after spending a year as a visiting professor. He received his BA, JD, and PhD (History) from Yale. His book, The People’s Courts (Harvard 2012), traces the rise of judicial elections, judicial review, and the influence of money and parties in American courts. It is based on his dissertation […]

Katharine B. Silbaugh

Katharine Silbaugh is widely recognized for her pioneering work on gender, family and household labor, and adolescent interaction with the legal system. Her research highlights the economic and social value of work done within households; the complex relationship between families and institutions, such as employers, schools, and commercial entities; and the inadequacy of the legal […]

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 […]

Theodore S. Sims

Following law school, Theodore Sims clerked for the Honorable John C. Godbold, of the United States Court of Appeals for the (then) 5th Circuit, practiced with (then) Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, in Washington, DC, and served with the Office of Tax Policy of the United States Treasury. Upon leaving government service in 1981 he joined […]

Robert D. Sloane

After receiving his JD in 2000, Professor Robert D. Sloane worked for the International Committee of Lawyers for Tibet (now known as Tibet Justice Center) under the auspices of Yale Law School’s Robert L. Bernstein Fellowship in International Human Rights. He led fact-finding missions to Nepal, India, and Tibet; wrote submissions for the UN Commission […]

Maya Steinitz

Professor Maya Steinitz teaches civil procedure, international arbitration, international business transactions and corporations. Her research focuses on a wide range of topics including the intersection of civil litigation and corporate law, public and business international law, transnational dispute resolution, and the global legal profession. She is one of the nation’s leading experts on litigation finance.  Her […]

Paul G. Sweeney – (On Leave)

Paul Sweeney is Professor of the Practice of Law and Director of the Transactional Law Program at BU School of Law. Professor Sweeney brings to the School of Law over 26 years of experience as a leading transactional business lawyer, including 19 years practicing in the Boston office of Foley Hoag, LLP, where he was […]

Victoria Tang

Victoria Tang joins Boston University School of Law as a lecturer and clinical instructor in the BU/MIT Student Innovations Law Clinic, which provides experiential education through legal assistance to the next generation of creators, researchers, and tech advocates. Before arriving at BU Law, Victoria served as a clinical supervisor and staff attorney at the East […]

Robert L. Tsai

Robert L. Tsai is Professor of Law and Harry Elwood Warren Memorial Scholar at Boston University School of Law, where he teaches courses in constitutional law, presidential leadership, and individual rights. Professor Tsai has been named a ’24-’25 Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, where […]