Constitutional law addresses the scheme of government that the Constitution establishes, the powers that it confers, and the rights that it protects.
James E. Fleming
James E. Fleming writes in constitutional law and constitutional theory and is the author or co-author of five scholarly books: Constructing Basic Liberties: A Defense of Substantive Due Process (University of Chicago Press, 2022), is Fleming’s latest book. From reproductive rights to marriage for same-sex couples, many of our basic liberties owe their protection to […]
Vinay Harpalani
Vinay Harpalani is Professor of Law and the Lee and Leon Karelitz Chair in Evidence and Procedure at the University of New Mexico School of Law, where he teaches courses in constitutional law, civil procedure, employment discrimination, and race and law. Professor Harpalani received the 2017 Derrick A. Bell, Jr. Award from the Association of […]
Nicole Huberfeld
Nicole Huberfeld is Edward R. Utley Professor of Health Law at BU School of Law and School of Public Health, where she is faculty in the Health Law Program and 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 […]
Sean J. Kealy
Sean Kealy graduated from Temple Law School in 1994. He was an assistant attorney general from 1995-1999 where he worked on victim compensation claims and prosecuted insurance fraud. From 1999-2007 he worked as legal advisor to State Senator Cynthia Stone Creem (D-Newton) and counsel to the General Courts Joint Committee on Criminal Justice and the […]
Susan P. Koniak
Professor Susan Koniak says the key to being a good legal teacher is to never lose sight of one’s key responsibility: to produce good lawyers. “When I’m standing in front of the students, it’s not about me, it’s about them. It’s my responsibility to ensure that they have a solid understanding of the material, and […]
Pnina Lahav
During the course of her legal career, Pnina Lahav has published nearly 50 journal articles and three books, including the critically acclaimed Judgment in Jerusalem: Chief Justice Simon Agranat and the Zionist Century. Winner of Israel’s Seltner Award (1998) and the Gratz College Centennial Book Award (1998), she is presently completing a biography of Israel’s fourth […]
Gary S. Lawson
Gary Lawson joined the Boston University School of Law faculty in 2000, after eleven years at Northwestern University School of Law. In 2022, he was named a William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor. He has authored or co-authored nine editions of a textbook on administrative law, a textbook on constitutional law, five university press books and […]
Gerald F. Leonard
Gerald Leonard is a leading historian of American constitutionalism. He is the author of two books that helped launch and extend the “constitutional politics,” or “popular constitutionalism,” approach to American constitutional history: The Partisan Republic: Democracy, Exclusion, and the Fall of the Founders’ Constitution, 1780s-1830s (Cambridge University Press, 2019) (with Saul Cornell), and The Invention of Party […]
Jarrod F. Reich
Jarrod Reich is Senior Lecturer in the Lawyering program. He most recently served as a Professor of Legal Writing at the University of Miami School of Law, where he taught first-year and upper-level writing courses and evidence. Previously, he served on the faculties of Georgetown University Law Center and Florida State University College of Law, […]
Christopher Robertson
Christopher Robertson joined the BU Law faculty in 2020 as a tenured professor and N. Neal Pike Scholar in Health & Disability Law. He is also a Professor of Health Law, Policy & Management in the BU School of Public Health. Professor Robertson is an expert in health law, institutional design, and decision making. His […]