Beginning in January 2025, Andrew Elmore joins BU Law from the University of Miami School of Law. Elmore writes and teaches about labor and employment law and tort law. His scholarship examines the failure of the state to effectively regulate low-wage workplaces and the efforts of worker movements to generate new legal frameworks to protect workers’ rights and reduce bargaining power inequality. 

Professor Elmore’s scholarship has been published in the California Law Review, Southern California Law Review, George Washington Law Review, UC Davis Law Review, and others. He currently co-chairs the Labor Rights Collaborative Research Network of the Law and Society Association and serves as secretary of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Labor Relations and Employment Law.

Elmore entered the academy as an acting assistant professor of lawyering at New York University School of Law. Prior to joining academia, Professor Elmore was a practicing attorney for over a decade, beginning as a Skadden Fellow at the Legal Aid Society in New York City, where he developed an employment law practice representing immigrant, low-wage workers. Later, as a section chief in the New York Office of the Attorney General, he led and supervised investigations of systemic violations of employment and employment discrimination laws.

Elmore clerked for Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis of the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York. He graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, Order of the Coif, with a concentration in public interest law and policy. Elmore began his professional career as a researcher, organizer, and advocate in unions and community and labor policy organizations, which he continued through law school. He received his BA with Distinction from Swarthmore College.

Professor Janet Freilich writes and teaches in the areas of patent law, intellectual property, information law, and civil procedure. She has published or has articles forthcoming in Science, The Review of Statistics and Economics, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the Virginia Law Review, and others. Freilich was previously a professor at Fordham Law School, where she received the Fordham Law Dean’s Distinguished Research Award. She has also received the Samsung-Stanford Patent Prize, the Irving Oberman Memorial Award in Intellectual Property, and the Cloud Based Research Computing Project Award.

Professor Freilich has spent time as a visiting scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management; Harvard Medical School’s Program on Regulation, Therapeutics, and Law; and at Boston University School of Law. She was Harvard Law School’s inaugural postdoctoral fellow in private law and intellectual property with the Program on the Foundations of Private Law. Prior to joining the academy, Freilich practiced law at Covington & Burling LLP. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and summa cum laude from Cornell University with a bachelor’s degree in molecular biology.

Professor Erika R. George joins BU Law as the associate dean for equity, justice, & engagement and the inaugural Ernest Haddad Faculty Scholar. Previously, she taught at the University of Utah’s S.J. Quinney College of Law and served as director of Utah’s Tanner Humanities Center in the College of Humanities. She has served as a visiting professor at the University of Cape Town and Loyola University Chicago School of Law. 

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) and is a founding member of the editorial board of the Business and Human Rights Journal (Cambridge University Press). Since 2022, George has served on the board of Shift, a center of expertise on the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.

Professor George’s scholarship has appeared in journals including the Michigan Journal of International Law, the Berkeley Journal of International Law, and the Annual Proceedings of the American Society of International Law. She teaches constitutional law as well as international law with focuses on human rights, the environment, business transactions, and trade.

Professor George is an elected member of the American Law Institute, a trustee of Earthjustice, and serves on the Executive Board of the American Bar Association Center for Human Rights. She co-founded the PEN America Utah Chapter and was a member of the board of the ACLU of Utah. George’s recognition includes the Society of American Law Teachers’ M. Shanara Gilbert Human Rights Award, Utah Business’ Living Color Award for Inclusive Leadership, and the Woman of the Year Award.

Before joining the legal academy, Professor George was a fellow with Human Rights Watch in New York. She also practiced commercial litigation with Jenner & Block in Chicago and Coudert Brothers LLP in New York.

Professor George earned her BA with honors from the University of Chicago and her JD from Harvard Law School, where she served as articles editor of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. She also holds an MA in International Relations from the University of Chicago. George clerked for Judge William T. Hart of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

Nicole Huberfeld continues to teach at BU Law in the health law program and now officially holds a joint University appointment at BU School of Law and BU School of Public Health. Huberfeld helped establish and serves as the 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 the needs of vulnerable populations in health reform, Medicaid, and reproductive rights.

Professor Huberfeld is co-author of two leading health law casebooks: The Law of American Health Care (2023) and Public Health Law (2019). She has authored many book chapters, national and international law journal articles, peer-reviewed articles, and commentaries, appearing in publications such as Stanford Law Review; Harvard Law & Policy Review; Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law & Ethics; University of Chicago Law Review; Health Affairs; and JAMA. Huberfeld’s work has been cited in judicial opinions by the US Supreme Court, lower federal courts, state courts, and federal and state executive agencies. She also serves as Research Director for the Uniform Law Commission’s Joint Editorial Board on Health Law.

Professor Huberfeld has been interviewed by media such as The Washington Post, New York Times, NPR, Politico, Newsweek, Time, The Guardian, and Univision.

In 2019, Huberfeld won the Excellence in Teaching Award for teaching in the Core at BU School of Public Health. Prior to joining the BU faculty, Huberfeld taught courses at the University of Kentucky College of Law and College of Medicine. Huberfeld won the College of Law Duncan Teaching Award in 2008. Previously, she taught at Seton Hall University School of Law, where she created and directed the health care compliance certification program. Huberfeld practiced health law in New York and New Jersey before entering academia.

Weijia Rao joins the BU Law faculty from George Mason University. Rao’s research applies empirical methods to the study of international and comparative law, with a focus on legal institutions governing global trade and investment. Her work has examined the institutional design of investor-state dispute settlement, the development and impacts of international investment agreements, and China’s engagement with the international legal order. Professor Rao teaches contracts, international trade regulations, and a seminar on Comparative Law and China.

Professor Rao’s recent scholarship has been published or is forthcoming in the Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Legal Studies, International Review of Law and Economics, Harvard International Law Journal, Chicago Journal of International Law, and Yale Journal of International Law.

Prior to teaching, Rao practiced international trade and investment law at Sidley Austin LLP in Washington, DC. She also has experience working at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), an investment arbitration institution under the World Bank Group.

Professor Rao graduated from the University of Chicago Law School with an LLM and a doctoral of juridical science in international law. Before coming to the United States, she completed her undergraduate studies at Tsinghua University in Beijing, where she received a dual degree in law and economics. Rao is admitted to the New York State Bar and has passed the National Judicial Examination of China.

Kate Devlin Joyce has been promoted to clinical associate professor and will continue her six-year role as the director of the externship program. Devlin Joyce has been a national leader in the externship community, expanding BU Law’s program to provide students with more opportunities to connect theory to practice in local, national, and international placements. In this new role, she will continue to grow the externship program through placing more students, evolving training for supervisors, and continuing her commitment to excellence.

Professor Devlin Joyce focuses on developing methods of teaching externship seminars that help students connect the theory learned in doctrinal courses to practical legal experiences. While at BU Law, she has established new, innovative models of experiential learning, such as a tethered program with Professor Gerry Leonard, “The Criminal System: Theory and Practice,” where students participate in cutting-edge criminal law-related placements while enrolling in a specialized seminar to address pressing issues in the criminal legal system. Devlin Joyce has also successfully grown the externship program to include judicial, nonprofit, and federal agency offerings. Her strategic approach includes strengthening connections with alumni, resulting in alumni supervisors who oversee and support externship students.

Prior to teaching in externship programs, Devlin Joyce was the director of public interest programs at Boston College Law School, where she helped develop many programs including Spring Break in Boston and the Public Interest Designation Program.

Professor Devlin Joyce was an Equal Justice Works Fellow and practiced immigration and asylum law where she represented clients in VAWA, U-, and T-visa, asylum, and family cases. She continues her international involvement as a family support person for family members of hostages through Hostage US. She remains active in the Haiti Plunge, an organization she has been involved with since 1991, when she first visited Desab, Haiti.

Victoria Tang brings extensive clinical supervising and teaching experience from appointments in the Communications & Technology Clinic at Georgetown University Law Center and the East Bay Community Law Center (EBCLC), a clinic at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. 

As the clinical supervisor and staff attorney at the EBCLC, she guided students through direct client representation and policy advocacy for people with conviction histories facing barriers to reentry, including eligibility for employment and housing opportunities.

While teaching at the Communications & Technology Law Clinic at Georgetown Law, Tang collaborated on projects to combat algorithmic discrimination, safeguard online privacy, and stop surveillance of communities of color. Before teaching, she defended the rights of reporters at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University and the Student Press Law Center. Tang has also contributed to immigration nonprofit organizations dedicated to protecting the rights of asylum seekers and migrants.

Prior to her legal career, she was a science and technology journalist, working most recently as an editor at WIRED. She received her LLM in Clinical Advocacy from Georgetown University Law Center; JD from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law; MA in Journalism from Syracuse University; and BA in Molecular & Cell Biology, Political Science, and Rhetoric from the University of California, Berkeley.

Brad Baranowski (’20) rejoins the BU Law community after practicing civil litigation at Jones Day. He was a Supreme Court Fellow assigned to the Federal Judicial Center during the Court’s October 2022 term. During the fellowship, his research focused on recent developments in civil procedure and the history of judicial rulemaking and administration, areas which he is currently continuing to research. Professor Baranowski will be teaching Administrative Law and Federal Courts.

Baranowski 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.

Carliss Chatman is visiting from the Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, where she is an associate professor of law. She also is a faculty affiliate of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center at Duke University. She specializes in the fields of corporate law, commercial law, race and entrepreneurship, and ethics. Chatman’s scholarship has appeared in journals such as UCLA Law Review, Michigan Journal of Race and the Law, and Texas Law Review. In addition, she is the co-author of a casebook, Business Enterprises: An Experiential Approach, and a children’s book, Companies Are People Too. 

Professor Chatman practiced for eleven years as a commercial litigation attorney working in complex commercial litigation, mass tort litigation, and the representation of small and startup businesses in the United States and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. She brings a common sense approach to her teaching and scholarship, providing practical experience to all of her classes, and making complex legal concepts within reach for students of all backgrounds.

In practice, Chatman focused on trial law, appeals, and arbitration. In addition to negotiating settlements and obtaining successful verdicts, she has analyzed and drafted position statements regarding the constitutionality of statutes and the impact of statutory revisions for presentation to the Texas legislature. 

Professor Chatman writes for publications including Slate, TIME Magazine, and the Washington Post; with features in Bloomberg, Forbes, and the New York Times, and has made media appearances on CBS News and CBS Radio. She has produced panels, and her podcast, Getting Common, is available on Spotify, Apple Music, and replays via Voice America online radio. 

Professor Chatman is a 2004 graduate of the University of Texas School of Law, where she was a member of the Texas Journal of Women and the Law and served on the Student Recruitment and Orientation Committee. She received her bachelor’s degree in 2001 from Duke University with honors in English and African American studies.

Preeti Pratishruti Dash is currently pursuing a PhD in Law at the University of Cambridge, where she is a Gates-Cambridge Scholar. Her doctoral work focuses on the downsides of punitive approaches to sexual violence in India.

Professor Pratishruti Dash has served as an assistant professor at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, India, teaching courses on criminal law and leading seminars on violence against women. She has also worked as a research scholar at Project 39A, National Law University Delhi, where she worked and published on capital sentencing in India. 

Pratishruti Dash earned an LLB from National Law University, Odisha, where she was a gold medalist. She also holds an LLM from Harvard Law School under the Fulbright-Nehru Master’s Fellowship and an MSc in criminology from the University of Oxford, where she was awarded the Roger Hood Prize and the Routledge Prize for her outstanding performance and dissertation.

Yoana Kuzmova (LAW’14, Pardee’15) joins BU Law from the Center for Migratory Observation and Social Development in the Caribbean (OBMICA) based in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, where she was an associate researcher focused on the intersection of insecure citizenship status, statelessness, and migration detention. She previously taught the BU Law International Human Rights Clinic during the 2021–22 academic year and co-taught and supervised students in the clinic alongside Professor Susan Akram from 2016 through 2020. Over the years, she has supervised the clinic’s projects on statelessness and engaged in advocacy for the rights of Tibetans at the United Nations and individual client representation in collaboration with the International Refugee Assistance Project. Kuzmova’s research, writing, and advocacy focus on the rights of noncitizens and the right to nationality.

As an immigration and human rights lawyer, her client work includes advocacy at the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center, the Northeast Justice Center, and the Federal Immigration Appeals Project. Kuzmova is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and New York, and she received her JD with honors in International Law at Boston University School of Law and her MA in International Relations at Boston University Pardee School of Global Studies.

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 is a nationally recognized scholar on Tribal civil rights law, Tribal jurisdiction, and bisexuality and the law. To date, she has authored nineteen law review articles, including two co-authored pieces. Her work has been published in UC Davis Law Review, Washington Law Review, Harvard Journal of Law and Gender, and many other journals. Her articles have been cited in seminal treatises such as “Cohen’s Handbook of Federal Indian Law,” appellate briefs, and federal and Tribal court opinions.

Before joining USD, she served as a senior Tribal attorney for Muckleshoot Indian Tribe and previously served as an associate professor at Hamline University School of Law (now Mitchell Hamline).

Professor Tweedy currently serves as an Associate Judge for the Suquamish Court of Appeals, and she is an award-winning poet. Professor Tweedy graduated from UC Berkeley School of Law, Order of the Coif, and she holds an MFA in creative writing from Hamline University. After law school, she clerked for Judge Ronald M. Gould of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and for Judge Rex Armstrong (retired) of the Oregon Court of Appeals.