Visiting Faculty
faculty and administration
Barnico, Thomas
Eisen, Tamar
Mann, Naomi
Quinlan, Regina
Teachout, Peter
Victor Brudney Professor Brudney is the Robert B. and Candice J. Hass Professor in Corporate Finance Law (emeritus) at Harvard Law School. He received his LL. B from Columbia University in 1940, and joined the Harvard Law School faculty in 1970. He will teach First Amendment and Corporate Speach in the spring semester.
Kurt Denk, S.J.
Kurt M. Denk, S.J., a visiting assistant professor at BC Law, received a B.A. in history from Georgetown University in 1996, an M.A. in philosophy from Fordham University in 2001, an M.Div. from the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University at Berkeley in 2007, and a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley (Boalt Hall) in 2010, where he was a member of the Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law and a participant in the East Bay Community Law Center and the Death Penalty Clinic. After law school, he clerked for Judge Maryanne Trump Barry of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
A Jesuit since 1996, and ordained a priest in 2007, Father Denk has served as an adjunct instructor of philosophy and assistant director of the Center for Community Service and Justice at Loyola University Maryland (2001-04), and as an associate Catholic chaplain at San Quentin State Prison in California (2004-10). He also has served as a pastoral associate at Old St. Joseph’s Church in Philadelphia, and at the Church of St. Francis Xavier and the Church of St. Jude in New York City.
Father Denk’s primary teaching and research interests include: capital punishment; constitutional law; criminal law and procedure; mindfulness, religion, spirituality, and the law; ethics and professional responsibility; and restorative justice. He will teach Professional Responsibility in the spring semester.
Nancy Dowd
Nancy E. Dowd is the David H. Levin Chair in Family Law and Director, Center on Children & Families, Levin College of Law, University of Florida. Her scholarship has focused on alternative family forms, gender and family law, and juvenile justice. Her most recent book is The Man Question: Male Privilege and Subordination (NYU Press 2010), and she is the editor of a forthcoming collection on juvenile justice, Justice for Kids: Keeping Kids Out of the Juvenile Justice System (forthcoming 2011). She is the series editor of the Families, Law and Society series at NYU Press.
Professor Dowd graduated from the University of Connecticut with high honors, and completed a master's degree and doctoral work in Chinese history prior to attending law school. She graduated first in her class at Loyola University of Chicago School of Law, where she was editor in chief of the law review. She clerked for the Honorable Robert Sprecher on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. After working at Choate, Hall and Stewart in Boston, with a practice focused on labor and employment law, she began teaching at Suffolk Law School in 1984. While at Suffolk she was a recipient of a Rockefellar Foundation fellowship to explore work/family policy. In 1986 she visited at the University of Florida and joined their faculty in 1987. While she has been on the faculty there she has also taught in Australia, New Zealand, France and the UK, and previously visited in Boston at Northeastern University School of Law. Her teaching areas include family law, gender and the law, feminist jurisprudence, constitutional law, contracts, torts, and seminars on feminist jurisprudence, domestic violence, work and family policy, families and social policy, work/family policy, and definiting "family."
She is the author of In Defense of Single Parent Families (1997) and Redefining Fatherhood (2000), and the editor of volumes on feminist jurisprudence; children and violence; and juvenile justice. Her numerous articles and frequent presentations have focused on work/family policy, feminist analysis, non-traditional families, and juvenile justice.
She is an avid sailor and dancer.
Elizabeth Foote
Elizabeth Foote specializes in administrative law and regulatory legislation. She received a J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1983, where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. After a clerkship on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, she practiced law for several years at Covington & Burling in D.C. and later at the Environmental Protection Agency. Since 1991, she has taught courses on government regulation, constitutional structure of government, and the U.S. legal system, at Boston University School of Law, Harvard Law School, and Cambridge University (U.K.), in addition to Boston College Law School. Professor Foote will teach Administrative Law in the fall and spring.
Marc Greenbaum
Clerk, Justice Paul J. Liacos, Supreme Judicial Court of MA, Boston, 1976-77; Associate, Foley, Hoag & Eliot, Boston, 1977-81; Assistant Professor, Suffolk, 1981-83; Associate Professor, 1983-86; Professor, since 1986
Degrees: BA, Rutgers University; JD, Boston College
Bar Admittance: MA, 1977
Subjects: Constitutional Law; Employment Discrimination; Employment Law; Labor Law; Public Sector Labor Law
Professional Activities: Member, Order of the Coif; National Academy of Arbitrators Subcommittee on Court of Administration & Personnel, Gender Bias Study Com., 1987-88; Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers
Laura Murray-Tjan
Laura Murray Tjan teaches the Immigration and Asylum Clinic, the Immigration Practicum Seminar, and the Advanced Immigration Law Seminar. She also co-coaches the national Immigration Moot Court team. Professor Murray-Tjan has extensive experience representing immigration detainees and refugees, and presents frequently on the immigration consequences of criminal convictions. She graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College and received her law degree from the Yale Law School, where she was a Senior Editor of the Yale Law Journal and an Articles Editor for the Yale Journal of International Law. Murray-Tjan clerked for the Honorable Sonia Sotomayor on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and previously worked as an associate in the International Dispute Resolution practice group of Debevoise & Plimpton, the New York law firm. She was the Detention Attorney at the Political Asylum/Immigration Representation (PAIR) Project for five years, and most recently served as an immigration law advisor to the Committee for Public Counsel Services in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Professor Murray-Tjan co-chairs the pro bono committee for the American Immigration Lawyers Association, New England Chapter. Murray-Tjan lives in Brookline with her husband, three children, and Silky Terrier, Nina.
Francine Sherman
Professor Sherman is a Visiting Professor at Boston College Law School where she has been teaching Juvenile Justice for the past twenty years and directs the Juvenile Rights Advocacy Project. She speaks and writes widely about the juvenile justice system and, in particular, about girls in the justice system. She has testified before Congress and is currently serving on the U.S. Department of Justice National Advisory Committee on Violence Against Women focusing on children and teen victimized by domestic violence and sexual assault. She is the author of Detention Reform and Girls, a volume of the Pathways to Detention Reform series published by the Annie E. Casey Foundation (2005) and Detention Reform Practice Guide for Girls (forthcoming Annie E. Casey, 2011). Her most recent book, entitled Juvenile Justice: Advancing REsearch, Policy, and Practice (Wiley & Sons), was released in September, 2011. She is an ongoing consultant to the Annie E. Casey Foundation's Juvenile Detention Alternative Initiative on strategies to reduce the detention of girls nationally, regularly consults with national and local foundations and systems on issues related to girls in the justice system, and is on the Advisory Board to the National Girls Institute. Professor Sherman was the Principal Investigator of the Massachusetts Health Passport Project (MHPP) and is President of the Board of Artistic Noise, Inc.; both are programs working with girls in the justice system.
Education: B.A., University of Missouri; J.D., Boston College.
Herbert WilkinsHerbert Wilkins is the Huber Distinguished Visiting Professor at Boston College Law School. Professor Wilkins is the former Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. He served the Supreme Judicial Court for nearly thirty years, and prior to joining the bench served as a practicing attorney at the law firm of Palmer & Dodge in Boston. Professor Wilkins’ contributions to the legal system are many, including his leadership in the adoption of the new Massachusetts Rules of Professional Conduct. A member of the American Law Institute and the American College of Trial Lawyers, he has received the Boston Bar Association's Citation of Judicial Excellence Award, and the Haskell Cohn Distinguished Judicial Service Award. He is the former Town Counsel for Acton and Concord. Professor Wilkins received both his Bachelors and LL.B degrees from Harvard University. At Boston College Law School next year, he will teach Conflicts of Law in the fall semester.