Our Faculty | New England Law New England Law Faculty The New England Law faculty brings top-tier academic credentials, years of hard-won legal victories, influential research, and a proven ability to communicate their expertise and enthusiasm. But most importantly, our law professors put your success first, sharing a passion for teaching that extends well beyond the classroom. Full-Time Faculty Adjunct Faculty Emeritus Faculty Faculty I was blown away by the quality of the faculty. I especially enjoyed the opportunity to study with a mix of academics and current and former practitioners. 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Coulthard Academic Excellence Professor and Director of Bar Examination Preparation Services Dan Dolan Visiting Professor of Practice Caitlin Duane Visiting Clinical Professor of Law Allison M. Dussias Associate Dean and Professor of Law Russell Engler Professor of Law and Director of Clinical Programs Lawrence Friedman Professor of Law Lauren Gearty Visiting Professor of Practice Ben Golden Assistant Professor of Law Victor M. Hansen Professor of Law and Director of Criminal Practice and Procedure Certificate Program Thomas Hemstock, Jr. Director of the Law Library and Assistant Professor of Law Emile J. Katz Assistant Professor of Law James H. Kennedy III CEO and Dean Lisa J. Laplante Professor of Law and Director of the Center for International Law and Policy Peter M. Manus Professor of Law Carly McClain Lecturer on Law Chance Meyer Visiting Professor of Practice Gary Monserud Visiting Professor of Law Francis C. Morrissey Visiting Professor of Practice Hon. MaryLou Muirhead Visiting Professor of Practice Lynn S. Muster Visiting Professor of Practice Yen Nguyen Visiting Instructor of Law Nicole Noël Assistant Professor of Law and Director of Academic Excellence Erin O’Sullivan Clinical Professor of Law Gabriel Pell Assistant Professor of Law James Rehnquist Visiting Professor of Practice Kent D. Schenkel Professor of Law Susan K. Schwartz Clinical Professor of Law Tina S. Sheldon Visiting Professor of Practice David M. Siegel Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Law and Social Responsibility Jordan M. Singer Professor of Law Eliot Tracz Assistant Professor of Law Hon. Richard E. Welch III Visiting Professor of Practice Adjunct Faculty We’re proud that many of our graduates have come back to teach the next generation of law students. Keep an eye out for NELB alums, identified with an *. 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U. Allwaters* General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer, MLCHC Justin Amos Associate Attorney, Pierce Davis & Perritano LLP Teresa Anderson Instructor of Legal Writing Alexandra August Trial Attorney, Committee for Public Counsel Services, Mental Health Litigation Division Amanda Averill Associate Attorney, Buchanan Law Group David Bae* Lecturer on Law Erika Barber* Chief Privacy Officer, Boston Medical Center Ashley Barkoudah Adjunct Professor of Legal Writing Charles Basler* Senior Associate, Law Office of Adam Bond Pavel Bespalko* Lecturer on Law Barry Bisson Principal Attorney, Bisson Law Hon. Jay D. Blitzman First Justice; Mass. Juvenile Court, Middlesex Division (Ret.) Jeremy Bloomenthal Attorney, Law Office of Jeremy M. Bloomenthal Chloe Bowerman* Civil Rights Attorney; Of Counsel, J. Morgan Levy Darren Braham Senior Associate General Counsel, Simon-Kucher & Partners Matthew A. Burrill* Mediator, Attorney, Contracts Manager Hon. Anthony Campo* Associate Justice, Massachusetts Superior Court Colleen Carcone* Lecturer on Law Jeremy Carter* Partner, Carter DeYoung Linda Champion Senior Legal Counsel; Murphy, Hesse, Toomey & Lehane, LLP Alan Chow* Attorney, Law Office of Alan L. Chow Natalie Ciabattoni Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice Jack Cinquegrana Senior Counsel, Choate Hall & Stewart LLP Paul Colleran Managing Counsel, IRS Office of Chief Counsel Beth Pirro Cook* Deputy Legal Counsel, District Court of the Trial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Andrew P. Cornell* Lecturer on Law Christina Crowley* CEO and Co-Founder, AZone Labs Incorporated Bernardo G. Cuadra Deputy Chief, False Claims Division; Mass. AG's Office Michael Curry* President & CEO, Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers Thomas H. Day Former Assistant General Counsel, Loomis, Sayles & Company Shawn Deane General Counsel, Ametros Financial Corporation William Delaney Counsel, Lonardo Forte & Trudeau Lisa Dell’Anno Instructor of Legal Writing David DeLuca Partner; Murphy, Hesse, Toomey and Lehane, LLP Lauren DeMatteo* Attorney; Rubin and Rudman, LLP Matthew DesMeules* Owner, DesMeules Law Group Gregory Devlin Senior Manager, State and Local Tax Practice; BDO USA Jennifer DiCarlo* Instructor of Legal Writing Dawn D. Effron Mediator and Facilitator, Law Office of Dawn Effron Tyson R. Ence* Partner, Ence & Boehlen, PLLC Justin M. Fabella Lecturer on Law Addysen Feeley Associate Attorney, Boyle | Shaughnessy Law Shannon E. Flanders* Lecturer on Law Sarah Fleming Trial Attorney; Committee for Public Counsel Services, Public Defender Division Walter Foster Partner, Eckert Seamans Cherin + Mellott LLC Oscar Fullerton Rhode Island Supreme Court Trial Clerk Department Judicial Law Clerk Joseph M. Galvin* First Assistant Clerk-Magistrate, Waltham District Court Melissa A. Gauthier Instructor of Legal Writing Laurel Goldstein Attorney, Sandulli Grace Emily Amara Gordon Principal Attorney, Amara Law, LLC Franklin Graves Technology Counsel; HCA Healthcare, Inc. Laura Greenberg-Chao Partner, Henshon Klein LLP Ryan Groff* Director of Learning, DeepJudge Samuel Grossack* Attorney At Law, Grossack Law Group John Gunning Associate Attorney, Law Offices of Brian J. Gunning Matthew Hamel* Associate Attorney; Pierce, Davis, & Perritano Richard Heller Principal; Roberts & Heller, LLC Sara Horatius Immigration Attorney, Central West Justice Center Emily Horjus* Attorney Advisor, Department of Labor Donna-Lee Hughes* Attorney, Markforged Douglas R. Hyne* Founder, The Law Offices of Douglas R. Hyne, PC Lisa Johnson Adjunct Professor of Legal Writing Todd R. Johnson Senior Vice President, USI Insurance Services LLC Justin Kelsey Mediator/Attorney; Skylark Law & Mediation, PC John Kiernan Partner, Kiernan Trebach LLP's Alissa Koenig Associate Attorney, Iannella and Mummolo Lauren Kopec Attorney, Sandulli Grace Brian H. Lamkin Lecturer on Law Heather LaVigne Assistant Bar Counsel, Office of Bar Counsel, Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers Alexandra Lavin Senior Counsel, Division of Enforcement, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission David Lewis Deputy Chief, Integrity Review Bureau; Suffolk County DA's Office Robin R. Loporchio* Pro Bono Lawyer, Retired Vice President, Chief Intellectual Property Transactions Counsel at Raytheon Technologies Corporation Brian MacDonough* Partner, Sherin and Lodgen Maureen A. MacFarlane Lecturer on Law Alysia Madan Staff Attorney, Immigration Unit; Greater Boston Legal Services Albert B. Maggio Jr.* Principal, CRGO Law Rosa Licea-Mailloux Director of Corporate Compliance, MFS Investment Management Gabrielle Mainiero* Associate, Swomley & Associates Joseph Makalusky Assistant Bar Counsel, Office of the Bar Counsel Yakov Malkiel Administrative Magistrate, Massachusetts Division of Administrative Law Appeals Elizabeth Marcus* Mediator, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Patricia Keane Martin Partner, Seegel Lipshutz Lo & Martin, LLP Thomas Massimo Senior Executive, Commonwealth of Massachusetts (Ret.) Robert McGovern* Communications Director and Special Counsel, Committee for Public Counsel Services Jonathan T. Menitove Senior Counsel, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Andrea Merin* Senior IP Counsel, Abiomed, Inc. (Johnson & Johnson MedTech) Rosie Milano Instructor of Legal Writing Leonard E. Milligan III* Partner, Milligan Rona Duran & King LLC Elizabeth Mone Solo Practitioner, Mone Law Halim Moris Partner, Moris and O'Shea Francis C. Morrissey Partner and Founder, Morrissey, Wilson & Zafiropoulos, LLP Matthew C. Moschella Partner, Litigation Dept. Chair; Sherin and Lodgen Malgorzata Mrózek Associate, Fitch Law Partners LLP Gabrielle Muniz* Associate Attorney, Demeo LLP Wendy J. Murphy* Adjunct Professor of Sexual Violence and Law Reform; Co-Director, Women's and Children's Advocacy Project Pamela Myers Lecturer on Law Shane O’Sullivan* Assistant Attorney General, Massachusetts Attorney General's Office Nicole Paquin Attorney/Principal, Law Office of Nicole Paquin Daniel P. Paradis* General Counsel, Integrated Computer Solutions Inc. Amiee Parco Lecturer on Law Robert J. Passerello Senior Advisor, Gray Space Strategies Peter J. Perroni* Partner, Nolan Perroni PC Schuyler Pisha Senior Attorney in the Immigration Law Unit of Greater Boston Legal Services Danielle Pocock Immigration Staff Attorney, Justice Center of Southeast Massachusetts, LLC Martin Pomeroy Partner, Bernkopf Goodman LLP David Primack Partner, Manning Gross + Massenburg LLP Kayla Pulliam* Staff Counsel I, Committee for Public Counsel Services Sheila Ramirez Director of Public Affairs, Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Mary Frances Richardson Instructor of Legal Writing Melissa Robbins Partner, Farrell & Robbins, P.C. Melanie Roberts Training Director, Committee for Public Counsel Services Melissa Rodriguez* Associate Attorney; Bade Law Group, LLC Hon. Robert Ronquillo* Chief Justice, Boston Municipal Court (ret.) Hon. James P. Rooney First Administrative Magistrate, Division of Administrative Law Appeals David P. Russman Founder, The Russman Law P.C. Bennett R. Savitz Managing Attorney; Savitz Law Offices, P.C. Kristen Schuler Scammon Founding Partner, Torres, Scammon, Hincks & Day, LLP Jacqueline Schmedel* Associate Attorney; Lawson & Weitzen, LLP Joel Shames Partner, Shames & Litwin Benjamin Shorey Instructor of Legal Writing Stacy J. Silveira Principal, Law Office of Stacy J. Silveira Justin Silverman Executive Director, New England First Amendment Coalition. Christina Simpson Principal Attorney, The Law Office of Christina Simpson, Esq. Charles Simulis Managing Director – Mergers, Acquisitions, and Restructuring Tax Services; Deloitte Tax, LLP Megan Stanley* Principal Attorney, Stanley Law Office Justin Stidham* Associate Attorney, Boyle Shaughnessy Law PC Stephanie Sullivan Lecturer on Law Megan Sullivan* Complex Litigation Attorney; King, Tilden, McEttrick & Brink, PC Kathryn Sullivan Attorney, Law Office of Kathryn Sullivan PC Jennifer A. Sunderland* Partner, Sunderland Fleming LLC Mark D. Szal* Principal, Szal Law Group LLC Elaine Tassinari* Founder & Managing Member; Kendall Square Law Group, LLC Ashley Tincher* Chief Compliance Officer and Director of Licensing, Nebrina Holdings LLC Hon. Robert Tochka Associate Justice, Massachusetts Superior Court (ret.) Gary Owen Todd* Founding Partner, Todd & Weld LLP Danielle Walsh* Attorney, Kelliher & Callaghan Damien Wilson Trial Attorney, Committee for Public Counsel Services, Public Defender Division Emma Winger Deputy Legal Director, American Immigration Council Kenneth Woodland* Chief, Bureau of Municipal Finance Law, Division of Local Services; Mass. Dept. of Revenue Samantha Howland Zelaya* Staff Attorney, Kids In Need of Defense Hector Zumbado Senior Partner and Litigation Attorney, Zumbado & Elmore, LLC Emeritus Faculty Our emeritus faculty includes the following individuals, all of whom served for many years on the law school’s full-time faculty, impacting countless students’ lives with their teaching and mentoring. Mark Bobrowski JD New England Law | Boston MA University of Oregon BA Ithaca College Professor Emeritus Bobrowski taught Administrative Law, Land Use, Local Government, and Property. The author of the Handbook of Massachusetts Land Use and Planning Law , he has written extensively on issues affecting municipal government and has worked with communities across the region on community growth control, economic development, and resource protection. Ronald Chester Dip. Crim. Cambridge University (Trinity College), England MIA Columbia University School of International Affairs JD Columbia University School of Law AB Harvard University Professor Emeritus Chester is the author of From Here to Eternity? Property and the Dead Hand (2007); Unequal Access: Women Lawyers in a Changing America (1985); the award-winning Inheritance, Wealth, and Society (1982), and has co-authored two volumes (2005) (2018) of the Bogert treatise Trusts and Trustees 3rd ed. He has published numerous scholarly articles dealing with inheritance and trust law, legal history, the law of assisted reproduction and other topics. He was a Visiting Professor of Law at Indiana University (Bloomington); Southern Methodist University; and the University of California (Davis). Professor Chester was a Fellow in Law and the Humanities at Harvard Law School and attended Cambridge University in England on a Ford Foundation Fellowship. He is a retired Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel and a current member of the American Law Institute, where he served as Adviser to the new Restatement of the Law of Nonprofit Charitable Organizations. Professor Chester taught Contracts, Wills, Estates, and Trusts, and seminars on various topics including American Legal Thought and Bioethics. Richard B. Child JD Harvard Law School AB Harvard University Professor Emeritus Child taught Contracts, The Law and Ethics of Lawyering, UCC: Sales and UCC: Secured Transactions.  Before joining the New England faculty, he was a trial attorney with the United States Food and Drug Administration and practiced law in Boston. Davalene Cooper JD University of Kentucky College of Law MA Northern Illinois University BA University of South Florida Professor Emerita Cooper joined the New England Law faculty in 1994 after teaching legal practice skills at Suffolk University Law School. She was previously a staff attorney at the Appalachian Research and Defense Fund of Kentucky, Inc., and an attorney fellow at the National Consumer Law Center. She is co-author of Mottla’s Proof of Cases in Massachusetts (vol. 3 Evidence ,1995). Professor Cooper taught Alternative Dispute Resolution, Criminal Law, Law and Ethics of Lawyering, and Restorative Justice. Stanley E. Cox JD University of Kentucky H. Dip. Trinity College, Dublin MAT Duke University AB Harvard University Professor Emeritus Cox taught Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Climate Change, Conflict of Laws, Constitutional Law, Criminal Procedure, Environmental Law, International Environmental Law, International Human Rights Litigation in United States Courts, International Regulation of Trade, Land Use, and Terrorism and Individual Rights. Before joining the New England Law faculty, he was a criminal prosecutor in the Environmental Prosecutions Unit of the Kentucky attorney general’s office and an associate at two Lexington, Kentucky, law firms. Susan R. Finneran JD University of Notre Dame Law School BA University of Massachusetts Professor Emerita Finneran taught Business Organizations, Contracts, and UCC: Secured Transactions. Before joining the New England Law faculty, she was an associate at Bingham, Dana & Gould in Boston and Shearman & Sterling in New York. She is a past chair of the Business Law Section Council of the Massachusetts Bar Association and has been a panelist on many legal continuing education programs. Philip K. Hamilton JD Harvard Law School AB Harvard University Professor Emeritus Hamilton taught Civil Procedure, Evidence, Legal History, and The Law and Ethics of Lawyering. He served as director of the law school’s clinical programs from 1981 to 1988 and as associate dean of New England Law | Boston from 1988 to 2004. Before joining the New England Law faculty, he was chief counsel at Cambridge and Somerville Legal Services, Inc. While at New England Law, he served on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Advisory Committee on Massachusetts Evidence Law. Ilene Klein JD Cleveland State University, Cleveland Marshall School of Law BA Queens College, City University of New York Professor Emerita Klein supervised students in the Clinical Law Office, taught seminars in the clinical program, and taught Law and the Elderly. A faculty member at New England Law from 1988-2021, she previously worked for Legal Services for Cape Cod and Islands, Inc.; the Area Agency on Aging in Fairmont, West Virginia; and North Central West Virginia Legal Aid Society. She was an adjunct professor and lecturer at West Virginia University, teaching courses on legal issues affecting the elderly. Eric Lustig LLM, University of Florida College of Law JD, University of Miami School of Law MS, University of Baltimore BS, University of Florida Professor Emeritus Eric Lustig came to New England Law following a legal career in Washington, DC. He previously worked as an attorney-adviser to the Honorable Lawrence A. Wright of the US Tax Court, and as an associate at Dickstein, Shapiro & Morin. Prior to that, he was a visiting assistant professor in the University of Florida College of Law’s Graduate Tax Program. Professor Lustig has an interest in and has widely written on tax policy issues. Curtis W. Nyquist JD Harvard Law School BA North Park College Professor Emeritus Nyquist taught Contracts, UCC: Negotiable Instruments, Readings in Contract Law, and UCC: Secured Transactions. He is the author of several articles, including one voted the Houston Law Review ’s 1993 Article of the Year by its editorial board and two published in the Journal of Legal Education . He served for three years as executive director of the Consortium for Innovative Legal Education, Inc., of which New England Law is a founding member school. Barbara Oro JD Northeastern University School of Law BA Emmanuel College Professor Emerita Oro taught trial advocacy skills and supervised students in the Clinical Law Office. She also handled pro bono family law cases and provided monthly assistance to a law clinic for a battered women’s outreach program. Before joining the New England Law faculty, she engaged in general practice and worked as a Suffolk County Bar Advocate, representing indigent defendants. Charles Sorenson JD University of Nebraska College of Law MA University of California, Riverside BA University of Colorado, Boulder Professor Emeritus Sorenson served as associate dean from 2004 to 2006. During that time he supervised the law school’s judicial internship programs and directed the summer abroad program in Galway, Ireland. Before joining the New England Law faculty in 1991, he was a trial attorney with the Federal Programs Branch, Civil Division, US Department of Justice. He previously served as a law clerk for the Honorable Donald R. Ross of the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. He has written articles on civil procedure, first amendment rights, and legal ethics. Elizabeth K. Spahn JD Temple University School of Law AB Yale University Professor Emerita Spahn taught Constitutional Law, Employment Law, First Amendment Law, International Business: Combating Bribery and Money Laundering, and International Women’s Issues. As a Fulbright professor, she taught at Peking University Law School in China from 1999 to 2000. She attended the United Nations Population Conference in Cairo, Egypt, in 1994; represented the Feminist Majority Foundation at the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China, in 1995; and served as a public expert for the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention Working Group. She is a specialist in international anti-corruption scholarship.