Visiting Researcher & Scholar Program

Visiting Scholar Program

糖心Vlog Law School is one of the nation's premier institutions of legal learning and scholarship. Among the most selective law schools in the United States, we are a community of scholars and lawyers that enjoys excellent research facilities. Part of a fine research university, the Law School offers a range of highly selective advanced legal studies and research programs, including the LL.M., S.J.D., Drinan Visiting Assistant Professorship, and Visiting Scholar programs.

Prospective Applicants

Please send us an email stating your interest and the status of your communication with a prospective faculty sponsor (see below).

About the Program


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Each year, BC Law hosts select graduate students, researchers from academia and the professions, and senior academics from the US and around the world as Visiting Scholars. Visiting Scholars are usually working on a doctoral dissertation elsewhere, seeking an early-career postdoctoral placement or鈥攁s occupants of senior positions in academia, research institutions, government, or private or civil society institutions鈥攁re pursuing in-depth research.

Competition for a place in the program is very high and every year we are forced to decline admission to exceptionally qualified applicants. Visiting Scholars are expected to be in full-time residence at the Law School for a semester or an academic year and participate in the intellectual life of the Law School in addition to pursuing their research projects. Short visits are accommodated under less formal arrangements.


Faculty Sponsors

Visitors must be sponsored by a faculty member who is willing to act as a consultant or main interlocutor on the researcher鈥檚 or scholar鈥檚 project. Applicants are encouraged to directly contact appropriate faculty members to discuss such sponsorship before submitting their applications.

Information about faculty expertise and research interests is found in the faculty directory.


Resources

Visiting Visiting Scholars have access to facilities of the Law School and the University that enables them to conduct research while in residence.听 Those appointed have full library privileges, including dedicated space in the Visiting Scholars Center at the Law Library. They also attend colloquia and other scholarly presentations at the Law School, and are invited to participate in faculty social events.

Visitors may audit Law School courses on a non-credit basis with the permission of the course instructor.

“ As one of the world's preeminent institutions for legal learning, research, and scholarship, part of what makes the excellence of our School is the caliber of the visiting scholars that our highly selective program attracts every year from around the United States and the world. ”
Paulo Barrozo , Associate Dean of Faculty

Application Information

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Application Dates

Recommended dates:

  • September,聽for applicants who seek to initiate their period of residence at the beginning of the following spring semester.听
  • April, for applicants who seek to initiate their residence period at the beginning of the following fall semester.

Fees

There is a one-time fee of $2,500.00 dollars for those admitted to the semester or year-long program. In considering requests to waive the fee, the program considers the economic needs of the applicant, reciprocity among institutions, and other special circumstances.

Faculty Sponsors

Visitors must be sponsored by a faculty member who is willing to act as a consultant or main interlocutor on the researcher鈥檚 or scholar鈥檚 project. Applicants are encouraged to directly contact appropriate faculty members to discuss such sponsorship before submitting their applications. Information about faculty expertise and research interests is found in the faculty directory.听

Inquire

Prospective Visiting Researcher and Visiting Scholar applicants are invited to please send an email to VisitingScholars-Law@bc.edu聽informing their interest and the status of their communication with a prospective faculty sponsor. Further application instructions will be provided at that point.

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Current and Recent Past Visitors

James Burrel
Professor of Information and Computer Science, University of Hawaii

Jose Ignacio Hernandez Gonzalez
Law Professor and Consultant, Center for Stratigic & International Studies

Grzegorz Gura
Assistant Professor: Department of Theology and the Institute of Legal Sciences, University of Opole, Poland

Mohammad Farid Hamidi
Board Member and Senior Consultant, Afghan Human Rights Center
Former Attorney General of Afghanistan (2016鈥�2021)

Hanjun Kim
Prosecutor, Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office

Yair Listokin
Shibley Family Fund Professor of Law and Deputy Dean, Yale Law School

Catherine Malecki
Professor of Law - Rennes 2 University France

Dongmei Qiu
Associate professor, Law School of Xiamen University, China

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