Mary Holper is Director of the Immigration Clinic and a clinical professor at Boston College Law School. During her time at BC Law, she has served as Associate Dean of Experiential Learning (2021-2024), a visiting assistant professor (2008-2009), human rights fellow for the Boston College Center for Human Rights and International Justice (2007-2008), and detention fellow for the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. at Boston College’s Immigration and Asylum Project (2005-07).
Prior to joining BC Law, Holper was an associate professor at Roger Williams University School of Law, where she founded and directed the Roger Williams University School of Law Immigration Clinic. She began her career as an Equal Justice Works Fellow at the Capital Area Immigrants' Rights Coalition in Washington, D.C.
Christine M. McEvoy is a retired Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court, having served for over 20 years. She sat primarily in criminal jury sessions in Boston where she presided over numerous high-profile homicide and gang-related cases and in Middlesex Superior Court civil sessions.
Justice McEvoy’s national and international teaching experience includes being an Adjunct Faculty member at Boston College Law School for 30 years, teaching Criminal Law, Evidence, and Trial Practice. She is co-author of Grasso & McEvoy, Suppression Matters Under Massachusetts Law, LexisNexis. She has lectured at numerous legal/judicial forums on Homicide, Evidence, Criminal Law, and Procedure. Internationally, Justice McEvoy has presented in China, Russia, Uzbekistan, and Cuba, and she directed programs for foreign judges, lawyers, and students in the United States.
Pedro Lenza has been a law professor for over twenty five years. In addition to teaching thousands of law students, he has also given lectures throughout Brazil, including the Supreme Court, Superior Labor Court, and for several state judges and prosecutors. He completed his Masters (2002) and PhD (2006) in law at the University of Sao Paulo, which is one of the most respected Universities in Brazil, supervised by Professor Ada Pellegrini Grinover, a distinguished and renowned legal scholar in that country.
As a Visiting Scholar, his post-doctorate at Boston College Law School (2018-2023) was an important step forward in his academic and professional career. Author of the celebrated and best seller “Direito Constitucional Esquematizado®” (his Constitutional Law Treatise), Pedro Lenza is the coordinator of a collection of 25 titles in other areas of law.
Professor Blum has taught foundational law practice skills to BC Law students since 1985. She has been involved in international legal education since 2009, conducting training programs in Bosnia and Herzegovina for judges and prosecutors on behalf of the U.S. Department of Justice, and for trial monitors and legal advisors of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. In 2013, she served as a Fulbright Specialist at the Law Faculty of Sarajevo University. In 2019, she was a visiting professor at Tashkent State University of Law (TSUL) in Uzbekistan and returned to TSUL as a Fulbright Scholar in 2023 to teach and conduct research.
Over the years, she has led trainings across Uzbekistan’s legal sector--for law students, law faculty, practicing attorneys, judges, and Ministry of Justice officials. In 2024, in recognition of her contributions to legal education in Uzbekistan, she was appointed an Honorary Professor of TSUL.
Daniela Urosa received her PhD cum laude in Law and a Diploma of Advanced Studies from Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and her LL.B summa cum laude from Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (UCAB), Venezuela. She has been a professor at several Latin American Universities for over twenty years. She was the Vice President of the Venezuelan Association of Administrative Law.
Dr. Urosa was also a Visiting Scholar at Boston College Law School (2017-2019), and Director of the Latin American Constitutionalism Program at the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy at BC. She is currently the Founding Director of the International Human Rights Practicum at BC Law and International Ally Professor at UCAB. Dr. Urosa has written three books and over 50 publications in Public Law and Human Rights Law.
Jeffrey M. Cohen received his JD from Stanford Law School. He has also received a masters degree from Oxford University in Social Anthropology. He received his BA from the University of Pennsylvania. His primary research interests include criminal law and procedure, especially in the areas of corporate sentencing and punishment. Jeffrey was an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Massachusetts, where he prosecuted and tried numerous high-profile public corruption and government fraud cases.
Before joining the U.S. Attorney's Office, he worked at the Department of Justice in Washington D.C. as an Honors Program Trial Attorney, where he litigated civil False Claims Act cases around the country. Jeffrey clerked at the United States District Court in Massachusetts for Judge Reginald C. Lindsay and at the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts for Chief Justice Margaret H. Marshall. Prior to joining BC, Jeffrey was Acting Assistant Professor at New York University School of Law. Before NYU, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Boston University School of Law, where he taught courses in white collar crime and criminal trial practice.
Professor Judith A. McMorrow served as the Associate Dean of Experiential Learning and Global Engagement at BC Law from 2018-2021. She taught torts, professional responsibility, and in the law school’s Semester-in-Practice externship program. Her scholarship is primarily in the area of professional responsibility and legal ethics. Professor McMorrow has been active in pro bono and service activities, including over 20 years on the board of Community Legal Services and Counseling Center, 10 years on the Massachusetts SJC Committee on Judicial Ethics, work with the ABA Center for Professional
Responsibility, and earlier work representing women in Massachusetts seeking commutation based on Battered Woman Syndrome. Professor McMorrow retired from full-time teaching in June 2024 but continues to be active in writing and lecturing on issues of legal ethics. In Spring 2013, Prof. McMorrow ran the Boston College Law School London program. For the 2008-09 academic year Prof. McMorrow taught at Renmin University in Beijing, China on a Fulbright grant. http://reillysinchina.blogspot.com/
Alan Minuskin is Associate Clinical Professor of Law at Boston College Law School. He directed the school’s Civil Litigation Clinic and its Housing Justice Clinic. In both, he supervised student attorneys representing indigent clients at risk of homelessness, domestic violence, and loss of income and safety-net benefits. This fall, he will supervise a group of student attorneys who will provide free legal services to otherwise unrepresented tenants via a Lawyer for the Day Program at the Metro South Division of the Massachusetts Housing Court.
Professor Minuskin also taught the following courses: Introduction to Civil Litigation Practice, Critical Perspectives in Law and Professional Identity, Introduction to Lawyering and Professional Responsibility, Pre-trial Litigation, and Negotiation. He served as the on-site director of BC Law School’s London externship program five times from 2002 to 2017.
Paul R. Tremblay is a Clinical Professor of Law, Emeritus, at Boston College Law School. He retired from teaching in June 2025. Professor Tremblay founded and for 16 years directed the Community Enterprise Clinic, one of Boston College Law School’s transactional clinical courses. In the Community Enterprise Clinic, students represent low- and moderate-income entrepreneurs, small businesses, and nonprofit organizations. Professor Tremblay also taught a course on legal ethics each year.
He recently served as co-chair of the Boston Bar Association Ethics Committee, and is a member of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court’s Standing Committee on the Rules of Professional Conduct.
David Olson is an associate professor. He teaches patent law, intellectual property law, antitrust law, and various seminars. His research and writing primarily focus on patents, copyrights, antitrust, and incentives for innovation and competition. Since joining BC Law in 2007, he has been recognized for his teaching excellence and contributions. In 2011, he received the Business & Law Society Faculty Award for Achievement in Business & Law. In 2012, he received the Professor Emil Slizewski Award for Faculty Excellence.
For one semester in 2015, Olson served as a visiting professor at Pontifical Catholic University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he conducted research and taught a course on intellectual property.
Joseph P. Liu is a professor at Boston College Law School, where he writes and teaches in copyright, trademark, property, and internet law. His main area of academic research is the impact of digital technology on copyright law and markets, with a focus on how digital technology is changing the way individuals interact with copyrighted works.
Liu has published extensively on copyright law issues and has lectured in the U.S. and Asia, at institutions such as Harvard, Columbia, MIT, and Tsinghua University in Beijing. He received his BA in Physics and Philosophy from Yale University, his JD from Columbia University, where he was the editor-in-chief of the Columbia Law Review, and has an LLM from Harvard University.