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Hugh Ault
Professor, Law School
B.A. and LL.B. Harvard University

International tax law; tax aspects of foreign activities of US taxpayers; tax aspects of US investments by foreign taxpayers; tax structures in former East Bloc countries; federal income tax; taxation of business organizations. One of the world's foremost experts on tax law. Special Advisor to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris, where he played a leading role in designing tax systems for several former Soviet countries. President of the Federal Tax Institute of New England. Author of numerous articles, including "The Role of Arbitration Procedures in Resolving Tax Disputes"; "The Role of the OECD Commentaries in the Interpretation of Tax Treaties"; "Corporate Integration, Tax Treaties, and the Division of the International Tax Base: Principles and Practices"; "Federal Income Tax Project: International Aspects of United States Income Taxation II: Proposals of The American Law Institute on United States Income Tax Treaties," and "Corporate Integration and Tax Treaties: Where Do We Go From Here?" Courses include: "International Aspects of US Income Taxation (International Tax)."

617.552.4398
hugh.ault.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/law/fac-staff/deans-faculty/aulth/

Charles Baron
Professor, Law School
B.A. and Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania
LL.B. Harvard University

Bioethics; medicine and the law; regulation of abortion; fetal experimentation; patients' rights; patient refusal of life-prolonging treatment; physician-assisted suicide; constitutional law; gay rights; gender rights. Author of numerous related articles in law journals, including "Physician Assisted Suicide Should Be Legalized and Regulated" "Blood Transfusions, Jehovah's Witnesses and the American Patients' Rights Movement"; "The Supreme Judicial Court in its Fourth Century: Meeting the Challenge of the 'New Constitutional Revolution'"; "Why Withdrawal of Life-Support for PVS Patients Is Not a Family Decision"; "Abortion and the Legal Process in the United States: An Overview of the Post-Webster Legal Landscape"; "Fetal Research: The Question in the States," and "Legislative Regulation of Fetal Experimentation: On Negotiating Compromise in Situations of Ethical Pluralism." A past president of the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, a member of the board of directors of the National Death with Dignity Center. Courses include: "Life and Death Decisions."

617.552.4376
charles.baron.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/law/fac-staff/deans-faculty/baronc/

Robert Berry
Professor, Law School
B.A. University of Missouri
LL.B. Harvard University

Professional sports regulation, including contract negotiation and endorsement agreements; collective bargaining; movement of teams from city to city; owner-players disputes/strikes. General entertainment law. Consultant to the Boston Red Sox on baseball salary arbitrations. Served as a member of the Governing Committee of the American Bar Association's Forum on the Entertainment and Sports Industries. Author of the book Representation of the Professional Athlete; co-author of the books Law and Business of the Entertainment Industries: Labor Relations in Professional Sports and Law and Business of the Sports Industries. Courses include: "Regulation of Professional Athletics" and "Entertainment Law."

617.552.4340
robert.berry.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/law/fac-staff/deans-faculty/berryr/

Robert Bloom
Professor, Law School
B.S. Northeastern University
J.D. Boston College

Criminal and civil trials; court system; police abuse; police use of informants; Fourth Amendment; police interrogation; lawyers' strategies during trial; judges' procedural decisions; jurors and jury composition. A former civil rights attorney and assistant district attorney; frequent media commentator on criminal trials. Author of the book Constitutional Criminal Procedure. Co-author of Moore's Federal Practice, a major treatise on federal civil practice. Courses include: "Judicial Process"; "Criminal Procedure."

617.552.4374
robert.bloom.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/law/fac-staff/deans-faculty/bloomr/

Mark Brodin
Professor, Law School
B.A. and J.D. Columbia University

Constitutional criminal procedure; use of evidence in trials; litigation; civil rights; employment discrimination; fair employment laws. Co-author of the books Handbook of Massachusetts Evidence and Criminal Procedure: Examples and Explanations. Former Special Assistant District Attorney. Author of numerous articles in law journals, including "The Demise of Circumstantial Proof in Employment Discrimination Litigation"; "Accuracy, Efficiency, and Accountability in the Litigation Process--The Case for the Fact Verdict"; "Reflections on the Supreme Court's 1988 Term: The Employment Discrimination Decisions and the Abandonment of the Second Reconstruction"; "A History of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights under Law of the Boston Bar Association," and "Costs, Profits, and Equal Employment Opportunity." Courses include: "Civil Procedure"; "Evidence"; "Scientific Evidence Seminar."

617.552.4420
mark.brodin.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/law/fac-staff/deans-faculty/brodinm/

George Brown
Professor & Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Law School
B.A. and LL.B. Harvard University

Government ethics; political corruption; special prosecutors; federal-state relations. Served as chairman of the Massachusetts State Ethics Commission. Author of numerous articles in law journals, including "Should Federalism Shield Corruption?--Mail Fraud, State Law and Post-Lopez Analysis"; "The Constitution as an Obstacle to Government Ethics--Reform Legislation After National Treasury Employees Union"; "The Ideologies of Forum Shopping--Why Doesn't a Conservative Court Protect Defendants?"; "Federal Common Law and the Role of the Federal Courts in Private Law Adjudication--A (New) Erie Problem?"; "When Federalism and Separation of Powers Collide--Rethinking Younger Abstention," and "Has the Supreme Court Confessed Error on the Eleventh Amendment? Revisionist Scholarship and State Immunity." Courses include: "Federal Courts Seminar", "Federal Criminal Law", "European Union Law."

617.552.4375
george.brown.2@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/law/fac-staff/deans-faculty/browng/

R. Michael Cassidy
Associate Professor, Law School
B.A. University of Notre Dame
J.D. Harvard University

Criminal law; criminal procedure; trial practice; punishment; legal ethics. Member of the Massachusetts State Ethics Commission. Former chief of the Criminal Bureau in the office of the Attorney General of Massachusetts; former chief of the AG's Narcotics and Organized Crime Division. Author or co-author of "Public Education and Crime: Supreme Court Backs States' Rights" and "The Massachusetts Drug Asset Forfeiture Law: A Dialogue." Courses include: "Prosecutorial Ethics."

617.552.4343
michael.cassidy.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/law/fac-staff/deans-faculty/cassidyr/

Daniel Coquillette
Monan Professor of Law
Law School (former dean)
B.A. Williams College
B.A. and M.A. Oxford University
J.D. Harvard University

Lawyers' professional responsibility; legal ethics; justified disobedience of professional rules; legal education; legal history in Massachusetts; legal history in England; philosopher Francis Bacon. Author of the book Lawyers and Fundamental Moral Responsibility and The Anglo-American Legal Heritage. Reporter to the Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure of the Judicial Conference of the United States, where he is helping to rewrite the rules of the federal court system. Advisor to the American Law Institute's Restatement on Law Governing the Legal Profession. Former Chairman of the Massachusetts Bar Association's Committee on Professional Ethics.Served on the American Bar Association's Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility.Courses include: "English Legal History"; "American Legal Education"; "Lawyering and Professional Responsibility."

617.552.8650
daniel.coquillette.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/law/fac-staff/deans-faculty/coquilletted/

Peter A. Donovan
Professor Emeritus, Law School
B.A. and J.D. Boston College
LL.M. Georgetown University
LL.M. Harvard University

Torts; anti-trust matters; products liability. Co-author of four chapters of Massachusetts Corporation Law and subsequent revisions. Co-author or consultant to the production of educational videos on "Testifying in Court"; "The Deposition," and "According to Hoyle" --a video on selected pricing and marketing problems under US anti-trust laws. Author of the article "Caps on Tort Awards for Pain and Suffering." Serves as faculty advisor to the J. Braxton Craven National Moot Court Competition in Constitutional Law, one of the most respected competitions in the country. Courses include: "Tort and Anti-Trust Law."

617.552.4383
peter.donovan.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/law/fac-staff/deans-faculty/donovanp/

Anthony Farley
Associate Professor, Law School
B.A. University of Virginia
J.D. Harvard Law School

Criminal justice system; race and criminal justice; constitutional law; legal history; affirmative action; First Amendment; hate speech; symbolic speech; commercial speech; subversion; obscenity; libel; privacy; hate groups. A former assistant US Attorney. Conducts a reading group - Changing Lives Through Literature - an educational alternative to traditional probation or imprisonment. Courses include: "Law and Slavery"; "First Amendment"; "Postmodern Legal Theory"; "Criminal Procedure."

617.552.4397
anthony.farley.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/law/fac-staff/deans-faculty/farleya/

Phyllis Goldfarb
Professor, Law School
B.A. Brandeis University
Ed.M. Harvard University
J.D. Yale University
LL.M. Georgetown University

Death penalty law and cases; criminal law; criminal procedure; domestic violence; race and gender issues; constitutional issues; criminal justice issues including the death penalty; evidentiary law; trials and litigation; law and poverty; bias in the law and in sentencing (by gender, ethnic background, race, sexual orientation); constitutional safeguards in criminal law (limits on search and seizure, right to a speedy trial); feminist legal theory; the insanity plea; legal ethics and professional responsibility. Author of numerous publications pertinent to minority and feminist law, Goldfarb concentrates on teaching and studying laws that address sexual harassment, rape, domestic violence and other topics affecting the lives of women. As a litigator, she successfully obtained the release of Elaine Hyde, one of Massachusetts' "Framingham Eight," who was accused of killing an abusive boyfriend. Based on her work with the "Framingham Eight" Goldfarb wrote "Describing Without Circumscribing: Questioning the Construction of Gender in the Discourse of Intimate Violence." She is currently preparing a forthcoming book, Last Words at Execution. Director of BC's criminal process program, in which students examine criminal justice issues while engaged in prosecuting or defending criminal cases in local courts. Courses have included: criminal process; death penalty law; feminist legal theory; criminal justice clinic.

617.552.4388
phyllis.goldfarb.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/law/fac-staff/deans-faculty/goldfarbp/

Kent Greenfield
Professor, Law School
B.A. Brown University
J.D. University of Chicago

Corporations and workers; corporate social responsibility; corporations and society; constitutional law; separation of powers; First Amendment; Supreme Court cases. Author or co-author of the publications, "From Rights to Regulation in Corporate Law"; "Our Conflicting Judgments About Pornography"; "Cameras in Teddy Bears: Electronic Visual Surveillance and the Fourth Amendment," and "Ultra Vires Lives! A Stakeholder Analysis of Corporate Illegality (with Notes on How Corporate Law Could Reinforce International Law Norms)." Former clerk to David H. Souter, associate justice of the US Supreme Court. Member of board of directors of Political Asylum/Immigration Representation Project of Boston. Courses have included: "Corporations"; "Administrative Law"; "Issues in Corporate Decision Making"; and "Foundations of Business Law."

617.552.3167
kent.greenfield@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/law/fac-staff/deans-faculty/greenfieldk/

Dean Hashimoto
Associate Professor, Law School
B.A. Stanford University
M.S. University of California at Berkeley
M.D. University of California at San Francisco
J.S. Yale University
M.P.H. Harvard University

Law and science; constitutional law; law and medicine; asbestos contamination; exposure of workers to chemicals; workers' compensation; legal aspects of Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (allergic reactions to chemicals); indoor air pollution; environmental litigation; patent and trademark law; issues related to intellectual property. Expert on the use of scientific and empirical evidence in court and Asian-American issues–including Japanese-American internment during World War II. Holds both law and medical degrees; licensed to practice both law and medicine in Massachusetts. Also serves as chief of occupational and environmental medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and at Brigham and Women's Hospital and chair of the Health Care Services Board of the Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents, which oversees the quality of care provided for work-related injuries and diseases. Author of articles including "The Proposed Patients' Bill of Rights and Managed Care: The Case of the Missing Equal Protection Clause"; "The Future Role of Managed Care in Workers' Compensation"; "Should Asbestos in Buildings be Regulated on an Environmental or Occupational Basis?"; "Justice Brennan's Use of Scientific and Empirical Evidence in Constitutional and Administrative Law," and "Occupational Skin Disease in Newspaper Pressroom Workers." Courses include: "Constitutional Law"; "Torts"; "Environmental Litigation"; "Patent and Trademark Law."

617.552.4617
dean.hashimoto.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/law/fac-staff/deans-faculty/hashimotod/

Daniel Kanstroom
Clinical Professor, Law School
Director of the Boston College Law School International Human Rights Program

B.A. State University of New York at Binghamton
J.D. Northeastern University
LL.M. Harvard University

Immigration law in the US and Europe (especially Germany); citizenship, asylum and refugee law; criminal law, especially issues of bail; criminal defense; self-defense for tenants. Author of a number of articles on topics including judicial review of amnesty denials, including "Immigration, Citizenship, Asylum and the Soul of the Western Nation-State" and "Surrounding the Hole in the Doughnut: Discretion and Deference in US Immigration Law." Founder of BC's Immigration and Asylum Project, in which students assist indigent Boston-area immigrants who seek political asylum in the US or are facing deportation. Courses include: "Immigration Law"; "International Human Rights."

617.552.0880
daniel.kanstroom.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/law/fac-staff/deans-faculty/kanstroomd/

Sanford Katz
The Darald and Juliet Libby Professor of Law, Law School
B.A. Boston University
J.D. University of Chicago

Family law: marriage; divorce; adoption; child abuse and neglect; family violence; children's rights; child custody; marital property; judicial education; father's rights. Co-directing project on Anglo-American Family Law entitled "Cross Currents," which is co-sponsored by Oxford University. He is the only American law professor names as an international associate at the Family Law and Policy Center at Oxford University. He is the inaugural holder of the Darald and Juliet Libby Chair that was established in the memory of Michael G. Pierce, SJ. Credited with creating subsidized adoption, where public funds are used to offset the medical and care needs of disabled children, thereby enhancing their prospects for adoption. Former president of the International Society of Family Law; past chairman of the Family Law Section of the American Bar Association. Author of the book Family Law: Legal Concepts and Changing Human Relationships. Author of numerous articles, including "Historical Perspective and Current Trends in the Legal Process of Divorce"; "The Best Interests of the Child: A Re-Examination"; "'That They May Thrive' Goal of Child Custody: Reflections on the Apparent Erosion of the Tender Years Presumption and the Emergence of the Primary Caretaker Presumption," and "Massachusetts Rejects Professional Degree as Property." Courses have included: "Family Law"; "Family Law Seminar: Child Abuse and Neglect"; "Family Law Seminar: The Law of Child Protection."

617.552.4372
sanford.katz.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/law/fac-staff/deans-faculty/katzs/

Cynthia Lichtenstein
Professor Emeritus, Law School
B.A. Radcliffe College, J.D. Yale University, M.C.L. University of Chicago

International economic law; international banking and securities (including derivatives) in a rapidly changing environment; regulation of financial institutions in the US; use of force in international relations; human rights; foreign relations and the US Constitution. A former president of the American Branch of the International Law Association. Author of articles published in law journals in America and abroad, including "International Jurisdiction Over International Capital Flows and the Role of the IMF: Plus Ca Change…"; "Current Developments in International Securities Regulation Co-operation"; "Do Globalized Financial Markets Need a New Architecture of Regulation?"; "Dealing with Sovereign Liquidity Crises: New International Initiatives for the New World of Volatile Capital Flows To and From Emerging Markets"; and "European Monetary Union and the European System of Central Banks." Courses include: "Contracts"; "International Trade Seminar"; "Regulation of Financial Institutions."

617.552.4384
cynthia.lichtenstein.1@bc.edu

http://www.bc.edu/schools/law/fac-staff/deans-faculty/lichtensteinc/

Ray Madoff
Associate Professor, Law School
B.A. Brown University, J.D., LL.M. New York University

Trusts and estates; estate planning; will disputes and undue influence; trust law. Lead author on the book An Estate Planner's Handbook; author of several articles, including "Taxing Personhood: Estate Taxes and the Compelled Commodification of Identity"; "Unmasking Undue Influence"; "Real Estate Workouts and Bankruptcies"; "Tax Implications of Chapter 11 Reorganizations"; "A Reappraisal of the Tax Consequences of Abandonments in Bankruptcy" and "United States Estate and Gift Tax Considerations." Appointed an academic fellow of the American College of Trusts and Estates. Courses include: "Estate and Gift Tax"; "Estate Planning"; "Trusts and Estates Survey."

617.552.0926
ray.madoff.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/law/fac-staff/deans-faculty/madoffr/

Mary-Rose Papandrea
Assistant Professor, Law School
B.A. Yale University; J.D. University of Chicago

Supreme Court, civil procedure, constitutional law, defamation and privacy law, and national security and civil liberties. She clerked for Hon. John G. Koeltl of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Hon. Douglas H. Ginsburg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and Hon. David H. Souter of the U.S. Supreme Court. Papandrea spent several years as a litigator, specializing in First Amendment and media defense cases. She is a member of the Connecticut, New York and District of Columbia bars.

(617) 552-0582
maryrose.papandrea@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/law/fac-staff/deans-faculty/papandream/

Zygmunt Plater
Professor, Law School
B.A. Princeton University; J.D Yale University; LL.M., S.J.D., University of Michigan.

Environmental law, domestic and international; legal aspects of environmental disasters; endangered species; pipelines; parks, land use issues, historic preservation, public works projects, private property and public rights; commercial fishing. One of the nation's leading environmental lawyers, Plater has handled national endangered species litigation -- including seven years spent litigating the case of the endangered snail darter fish vs. TVA's Tellico Dam up through the Supreme Court. He worked as chair of a legal task force for the State of Alaska responding to the Exxon-Valdez oil spill; was a consultant to plaintiffs in the Woburn toxic litigation, Anderson et al. v. W.R. Grace et al., which became the subject of the book and movie A Civil Action; has worked as a consultant on environmental and land use law initiatives in a number of foreign countries, and helped organize the first United Nations Conference on Individual Rights to be held in Africa. He is lead author of the national environmental law coursebook Environmental Law and Policy: Nature, Law, and Society (West). He is author of articles including: "The Three Economies"; "In Confronting Environmental Challenges in a Changing World"; "Spill: The Wreck of the Exxon Valdez"; "An Emergency Resource Requisitioning System for Response to Future Oil Spills," and "Judicial Remedies for Prevention of Future Oil Spills." He serves as faculty advisor to the Boston College Law School's Environmental Law Review. Courses include: "Environmental Law and Current Politics"; "Environmental Law: Teaching Seminar"; "Administrative Law Moot Court." Also , by vote of the graduating class, he recently won Boston College Law School's Faculty Excellence Award.

617.552.4837
plater@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/law/fac-staff/deans-faculty/platerz/

Francine Sherman
Director, Juvenile Rights Advocacy Project, Law School
B.A. University of Missouri; J.D. Boston College

Juvenile justice; juvenile curfews; treatment of violent offenders as juveniles or adults; juvenile violence; children's rights; child abuse and neglect. Author or co-author of articles including "Transforming Social Inquiry, Transforming Social Action: New Paradigms for Crossing the Theory/Practice Divide in Universities and Communities"; "What's in a Name? Runaway Girls Pose Challenges for the Justice System"; "Thoughts on a Contextual View of Juvenile Justice Reform Drawn from Narratives of Youth" and "Struggling for a Future: Juvenile Violence/Juvenile Justice." Directs the Juvenile Rights Advocacy Project at BC Law School. Appointed to the advisory board of the New England Juvenile Defender Center and the board of directors of the Children's Law Center of Massachusetts. Courses include: "Juvenile Justice."

617.552.4382
francine.sherman@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/law/fac-staff/deans-faculty/shermanf/

Alfred Yen
Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Law School
B.S., M.S., Stanford University; J.D. Harvard University

Intellectual property; Internet, technology and law; copyright; libel; torts and tort reform; litigation; legal education; affirmative action; race relations and minority affairs; Asian-American issues; Supreme Court appointments. served as counsel of record/lead author for an amicus brief to the United States Supreme Court on behalf of 12 copyright scholars in the case of Campbell v.Acuff-Rose Music Publishing Co. Author of numerous articles and presentations including "Internet Service Provider Liability for Subscriber Copyright Infringement, Enterprise Liability, and the First Amendment"; "Copyright Opinions and Aesthetic Criticism"; "Entrepreneurship, Copyright, and Personal Home Pages"; "Interdisciplinary Future of Copyright Theory"; "When Authors Won't Sell: Parody, Fair Use, and Efficiency in Copyright Law," and "It's Not That Simple: An Unnecessary Elimination of Strict Liability and Presumed Damages in Libel Law." Serves on the Intellectual Property Section of the American Bar Association and editorial board member for the Journal of Legal Education. Courses include: "Copyright"; "Intellectual Property Seminar"; "Torts."

617.552.4395
alfred.yen@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/law/fac-staff/deans-faculty/yena/