Full-time professors and clinical instructors

Vivian Etter

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 […]

Jonathan Feingold

Jonathan Feingold’s scholarship explores the relationship between race, law, and the mind sciences. Much of his recent research has interrogated how and why various American legal regimes, including equal protection doctrine, function to reinforce and reproduce racial hierarchy. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in the California Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review, Utah […]

Alan L. Feld

A member of the faculty since 1971, Alan Feld has testified before a number of congressional committees on issues surrounding tax laws. Before coming to Boston University, he practiced tax and corporate law at two New York firms: Barrett Knapp Smith & Schapiro and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. From 1996 to 2004 he […]

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 […]

Lisa Freudenheim

Lisa Freudenheim is an Associate Professor and Director of the Academic Enrichment Program. She supports student success through programming and individual meetings with students at all class levels, from Orientation through bar passage. She has devoted her career in legal education to teaching and counseling students, with a focus on developing the fundamental skills to […]

Caitlin Glass

Caitlin Glass joins BU Law in January 2024 to direct the Antiracism and Community Lawyering Practicum in collaboration with the Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality, where she is a Non-Resident Fellow. The practicum trains students in the traditions of community and movement lawyering, and provides them with real-world opportunities to support social […]

Jasmine Gonzales Rose

Professor Jasmine Gonzales Rose is a critical proceduralist and is particularly interested in the intersections of race and language within two areas: juries and evidence. She is a leading criticalist voice on evidence law, with a focus on the evidentiary issues raised by racialized police violence. She is also an expert on juror language disenfranchisement. […]

Wendy J. Gordon

Wendy J. Gordon has taught at Boston University since 1993, having taught at Rutgers, Georgetown, University of Michigan and other schools before arriving here. Her scholarship utilizes economics as well as ethics and analytic philosophy to understand copyright, trademark, and related forms of intellectual property. She is probably best known for her analyses of copyright’s “fair […]

Michael C. Harper

Michael Harper is a leading authority in the areas of labor law, employment law, and employment discrimination law. Professor Harper has been engaged by the study of these fields since joining the faculty in 1978. He stresses that the law governing employment is critical to the organization of society and the setting of social priorities. […]

Woodrow Hartzog

Professor Hartzog is internationally recognized for his work in privacy and technology law. He has been influential in the debate over privacy and surveillance rules and in the creation and enforcement of information and technology laws. His publications focus on the complex problems that arise when people, organizations, and governments use powerful new technologies to […]