Law Faculty Experts
Our faculty can comment on a wide range of timely subjects. Click a topic on the menu to see a list of professors with links to their contact information. To search for a specific professor, visit the professor's biographical webpage. If you need assistance or are unable to reach an individual, please contact Sandy Goldsmith at 617-422-7203 or sgoldsmith@nesl.edu.
Legal Topics
Accounting, International Standards
Administrative Law
Affirmative Action in Higher Education
Afghanistan, Post-conflict Issues
American Indian Law
Ancient Egyptian Law
Ancient Greek Law
Ancient Law
Appleseed Center for Law and Justice
Assisted Reproduction
Asylum Law and Asylum seekers
Attorney-Client Privilege
Blackmun, Justice/Environmental Law Opinions
Bosnia and Herzegovina - Post Conflict Reconstruction
Brokers (Financial Regulation)
Business Law
Business Planning
Business Regulation (Investment Advisers, Financial Planners, Brokers, Dealers)
Charities and the Law
Civil Litigation
Civil Procedure
Civil Rights and Environmentalism
Class Mobility and the American Dream
Clinical Education
Clinics, Legal
Cloning, Human
Comparative Criminal Procedure (US, UK, and Canada)
Competence to Stand Trial
Computer Law
Conflict of Laws
Constitutional Law
Consumer Protection
Copyright Law
Corporate Income Tax
Corporate Law
Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA)
Criminal Law
Criminal Law, International
Criminal Procedure
Critical Pedagogy
Cross-Border Legislation, Treaties, and Cases
Custody
Darfur and International Criminal Court
Database Protection Legislation
Dealers (Financial Regulation)
Death Penalty
Desegregation of Boston Schools (Early History)
Detainee Abuse in Military Interrogations
Detainees and Law of War
Developmental Disability and the Criminal Justice System
Diminished Capacity Defense
Dividend Tax Breaks
Divorce Law/Jewish ("get" and "agunot")
DNA Testing, Post-conviction
Domestic Violence
Double Jeopardy
Douglas, Justice/Environmental Law Opinions
East Timor, Post-conflict Issues
Economic Treaties
Education and Class Mobility
Elder Law
Environmental Activists (Rachel Carson, Bill McKibben, John Muir)
Environmental Justice
Environmental Law
Environmental Regulation
Equal Protection
Estate and Gift Tax
Estate Law
Ethics, Legal
Evidence
Family Law
Federal Education Programs (including No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top)
Federal Procedural Rules
Federal Tax Procedure
Financial Regulation (Investment Advisers, Financial Planners, Brokers, Dealers)
First Amendment Religious Clauses
Flag Desecration (U.S. Constitutional Amendment)
Garbage, Interstate Disposal of
GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade)
Geneva Convention
Geneva Conventions
Genocide Studies
Guantanamo Bay Interrogations
Guardians Ad Litem
Hague Convention
Human Rights and the United Nations
Human Rights Development
Human Rights Law
Human Rights Law, International
Human Trafficking
Immigration Law and Policy
Indigenous Peoples' Rights
Inheritance Tax
Innocence Project
Insanity Defense
Insider Trading
Integration and Imputation Systems for Corporate Tax
Intellectual Property
Intellectual Property Treaties
Internal Armed Conflict
Internal Armed Conflict and International Humanitarian Law
International Accounting Standards
International Business Standards
International Business Transactions
International Civil Service
International Courts
International Criminal Court
International Criminal Law
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugslavia (ICTY)
International Economic Treaties
International Environmental Law
International Human Rights Law
International Issues in Securities Regulation
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
International Tax Issues
International Tribunals (ICTR, ICTY, ICC)
Interstate Commerce and State Regulation
Investment Advisers (Financial Regulation)
Jewish Divorce Law ("get" and "agunot")
Judicial Ethics
Judicial performance evaluation
Judicial selection (state and federal)
Jurisdiction of Courts
Jurisprudence
Juveniles and the Criminal Justice System
Kosovo, Human Rights in
Land Use Law
Law of Occupation and International Law
Law of War
Law School, Parents as Students
Lawyering Skills
Legal Clinics
Legal Clinics and Clinical Education
Legal Education, First-Year Doctrine
Legal Education, Skills Training
Legal Education, Teaching Gender Issues
Legal Education, Teaching Methods
Legal Education, Values In
Legal Education: Teaching Public Interest Law
Legal Ethics
Legal History
Legal History, Ancient World
Legal Judgments, Enforcement by Other Jurisdictions
Legal Services for the Poor
Literature and the Law
Little League Rules of Baseball
Local Government Law
Massachusetts Constitutional Law
Massachusetts Court System
Mediation
Mental Illness and the Criminal Justice System
Mesopotamian Law
Migration
Military Interrogations and Detainee Abuse
Military Law
Military Tribunals
Minority Rights
Modern Remedies
National Security Law
New Hampshire Court System
Non-state Actors and International Law
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
Parents in Law School
Patent Cooperation Treaties
Payment Systems and Negotiable Instruments (Uniform Commercial Code)
Peacekeeping
Personal Income Tax
Piracy
Planning, Massachusetts
Popular Education
Post Conflict Reconstruction
Post-conflict Issues and International Law
Post-conviction DNA Testing
Posthumous Conception and Inheritance Issues
Poverty Law
PoW and International Law
Prepaid Tuition Plans and Tax Policy
Prisoners of War and International Humanitarian Law
Privacy
Pro Bono Legal Services
Pro Se Litigants
Product Liability
Professional Responsibility (Lawyers)
Property Law
Public Health Law
Public Interest Law
Public International Law
Refugees
Religion and the Law
Restorative Justice
Roman Law
Rule of Law Development
Runners/Motorist and Property Owner Liability
Rwanda, International Criminal Tribunal
Saddam Hussein's Trial
Sales of Goods (Uniform Commercial Code)
Same-Sex Unions, Recognition of
Securities Regulation, International Issues
Separation of Powers
Sexual Orientation and the Law
Sierra Leone, Post-conflict Issues and Special Court
State Constitutional Law
Sudan and the International Criminal Court
Tax Policy
Tax Treaties
Term Limits in Massachusetts
Terrorism
Tobacco Policy
Torts
Trade Secrets (Misappropriation)
Trademark Law
Trafficking in Persons, International
Transitional Justice
Tribunals, Military
Trusts
Tuition Plans (Prepaid) and Tax Policy
United Nations Reform/Accountability
Unrepresented Litigants
Value-Added Tax Systems
Visual Arts and the Law
War Crimes
War Crimes and International Law
War Crimes Tribunal for Rwanda
War Crimes Tribunal for Yugoslavia
War on Terror
War on Terror, Detainees
Wealth, Distribution of
White Collar Crime
Women in the Legal Profession
Womens Rights and International Human Rights
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Yugoslavia, Post-conflict Issues and International Criminal Tribunal
Zoning, Massachusetts