Two faculty members have been promoted at Boston College Law School, Natalya Shnitser to full professor and Sandy Tarrant ’99 to clinical professor.
As a scholarly expert in retirement security in the United States, Shinster has made significant contributions to the field not only through her teaching but also through her research, which has been published in numerous academic journals, including the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, the Yale Law Journal, and The Regulatory Review.
Shnitser holds degrees from Stanford (MA, BA) and Yale (JD). She started her career at BC Law as the inaugural David and Pamela Donohue Assistant Professor in Business Law, and rose through the ranks to her new position this month. She has also served as Chair of the AALS Section on Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation, and as the organizer of the Annual Conference on Employee Benefits and Social Insurance. Among the courses Shnitser teaches are Employee Benefits Law, Corporate Governance, and Corporations.
Tarrant is the Faculty Director of the Program on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (PIE), and heads the BC Law Entrepreneurship & Innovation Clinic, which provides legal aid to entrepreneurs and start-ups in the Greater Boston area. Prior to her time at BC Law, she was an associate at Mintz Boston, a partner at Casner & Edwards, LLP, and served in various capacities for nonprofit and political organizations in New England.
Tarrant holds both a BA and JD from Boston College. She worked for BC Law in 2009 and 2016 as a visiting clinical professor and clinic director before joining the faculty full-time in 2020, serving as an associate clinical professor until her promotion.