Visiting Faculty
2009-2010
Victor Brudney
Elizabeth Foote
Lisa Freudenheim
Susan(Sandy) Tarant
Peter Teachout
Laura Murray Tjan
Herbert Wilkins
Victor BrudneyProfessor 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 Corporations in the fall semester.
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 Reform of the Regulatory State in the fall, and Legislation and Regulation in the spring.
Lisa Freudenheim
Professor Freudenheim received her J.D. degree from
Susan (Sandy) Tarrant
Sandy Tarrant is a partner in the Nonprofit Organizations Law practice of Casner & Edwards, LLP, in Boston. She specializes in advising nonprofit organizations in matters involving corporate law, compliance, business transactions, financing, tax exempt bonds, tax exemption, philanthropy, and matters involving fiduciary, governance, fundraising and donor issues.
Prior to joining Casner & Edwards, Sandy was an associate in the Corporate and Public Finance practices at the Boston law firm Mintz, Levin. She is a member of the Boston Bar Association and the American Bar Association, and she has been an adviser to the Community Enterprise Clinic at the Boston College Law School Legal Assistance Bureau. Sandy is also an Alumni Mentor with the Boston College Law School Alumni Mentor Program. She received her J.D., cum laude, from Boston College Law School, a B.A. from Boston College and a graduate certificate from the BC Program for Women in Politics and Government. At Boston College Law School, Sandy will teach the Community Entrprise Clinic.
Laura Murray Tjan
Laura Murray Tjan received her J.D. in 1999 from the Yale Law School, where she was a Senior Editor of the Yale Law Journal and an Articles Editor of the Yale Journal of International Law. She graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University in 1994 with a B.A. in Government. From 1999-2000, Laura served as a law clerk to the Honorable Sonia Sotomayor, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She previously worked as an associate in the International Dispute Resolution practice group of Debevoise & Plimpton, the New York law firm, and as the Detention Attorney at the Political Asylum/Immigration Representation (PAIR) Project. For three years, she co-chaired the Detention and Removal Committee of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, New England Chapter; she currently serves on the Litigation Committee. She speaks French and German and intermediate Spanish and Italian. Most recently, Ms. Tjan served as an Immigration Law Specialist for the Committee for Public Counsel Services in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Peter R. Teachout
Professor Peter Teachout, who is visiting this fall from Vermont Law School, is recognized for his expertise in the field of state and federal constitutional law. He also teaches courses in international and European Union law. Professor Teachout received his BA degree from Amherst College in 1962 and his JD degree from Harvard Law School in 1965, where he was a John Woodruff Simpson fellow. Following receipt of his MA degree from the University of Sussex (England), he served in the Department of Intelligence of the United States Army from 1966 to 1969. He then returned to Harvard as a special graduate student and served from 1970 to 1975 as a member of the faculty of the University of Washington. During this period he also served as a visiting professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and as a fellow in law and the humanities at Harvard Law School. Professor Teachout joined the Vermont Law School faculty in 1975. Since that time, he has also been a National endowment for the Humanities follow at the University of Chicago and a visiting fellow at both Cambridge University and Dartmouth. His expertise has been frequently tapped by the Vermont legislature, which has sought his testimony and advice on the balanced budget amendment, flag desecration legislation, the redrafting of the state constitution in gender-neutral language, education financing, and same-sex marriage legislation. His essays and articles on a wide range of topics have been published in major legal periodicals. Professor Teachout is currently working on a biography of Thomas Reed Powell, a leading early realist and influential court critic during the first half of the twentieth century.
Herbert Wilkins
Herbert 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.