Boston College Law School has recruited five new faculty for the 2025-2026 academic year. This latest round of hires follows eight new hires from last year and seven more from 2022 and 2023. The new additions reflect BC Law’s ongoing commitment to enhancing the depth and breadth of expertise of its faculty across multiple key areas such as environmental law, financial regulation and technology, constitutional law, and clinical practice, adding to an already strong core.
“We are thrilled to welcome another incredibly impressive group of professors into our community,” said Odette Lienau, The Marianne D. Short, Esq., Dean at BC Law. “These new hires bring brilliant scholarship, deep public engagement, and fantastic teaching into BC Law—a balance that is so important to who we are as an institution, as we work to shape the next generation of BC lawyers.”
Marco Basile is a legal and constitutional historian, and joins BC Law as an assistant professor. He researches constitutional law, international law, and legislation in the United States within the contexts of international, transnational, and global history. He was awarded the Alexander Fellowship at NYU School of Law. His scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in the University of Chicago Law Review, Virginia Law Review, Harvard Law Review, and elsewhere, and he currently serves as the Book Reviews Editor for the American Journal of Legal History.
Before entering academia, he practiced litigation and clerked for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the US Supreme Court and Judges David Barron and Paul Watford on the federal courts of appeals. He holds a JD/PhD in History from Harvard University and an MPhil in Political Thought and Intellectual History from the University of Cambridge. During graduate school, he served as the Book Reviews Chair for the Harvard Law Review, an associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and a resident pre-law tutor at one of Harvard’s undergraduate residential colleges. For his work with students, Harvard awarded him the John R. Marquand Award for Exceptional Advising and Counseling of Harvard Students.
Raúl Carillo comes to BC Law as an assistant professor. Rau’s scholarship focuses on financial regulation and technology. He writes about new forms of money, banking, and finance. Research topics include the regulation of partnerships between banks and technology companies, the design of government digital currency systems, innovative efforts to combat fraud and money laundering in the cryptocurrency sector, and the evolution of money in video games and virtual reality.
Previously, Carillo was a Kellis E. Parker teaching fellow, academic fellow, and lecturer in law at Columbia Law School. Before his fellowship, Raúl was an Associate Research Scholar at Yale Law School and a Resident Fellow at the Yale Information Society Project. He also worked as the Deputy Director of the Law and Political Economy (LPE) Project, an international network of scholars, practitioners, and students developing proposals to build a more just, equal, and sustainable future. He received his JD from Columbia Law School and his BA from Harvard University.
Caroline Cox joins BC Law as an assistant professor. Previously, she worked as the program director for the Energy, Environment, and Land Use Program at Vanderbilt Law School, and was a member of the adjunct law faculty in 2022. Before joining Vanderbuilt’s EELU faculty and staff, she was a law clerk to Judge Branstetter Stranch of the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Cox also worked as an associate attorney at the Environmental Law and Policy Center of the Midwest, where she specialized in advocating before the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, promoting the clean energy transition in Ohio, and assisting with environmental litigation in state and federal courts.
She earned both her BA and JD at Harvard University. After earning her law degree at Harvard, she was a law clerk for Chief Judge Lee H. Rosenthal of the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas.
Thomas P. Crocker, whose scholarship focuses on issues in constitutional law and theory, and intersects both law and philosophy, taught at the University of South Carolina Joseph F. Rice School of Law before being named professor at BC Law. Within constitutional theory, his scholarship addresses issues concerning privacy, free speech and democracy, criminal procedure, presidential power, and constitutional constraints. His book, Overcoming Necessity: Emergency, Constraint, and the Meanings of American Constitutionalism (Yale University Press, 2020), received the 2020 Palmer Civil Liberties Prize. The Palmer prize is awarded for exemplary works of scholarship exploring the tension between civil liberties and national security in contemporary American society.
Professor Crocker graduated from Yale Law School, where he was Book Reviews Editor of the Yale Law Journal and an editor of the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities. After graduating from law school, Professor Crocker clerked for Judge Carlos F. Lucero on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Prior to attending law school he completed a PhD in philosophy from Vanderbilt University, an MA in philosophy from the University of Wales, and a BA summa cum laude from Mississippi State University, majoring in Economics and Philosophy. He also taught philosophy at St. Lawrence University in New York as a Visiting Assistant Professor before attending law school.
Crocker has held numerous fellowships, including at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Johann Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main, and University of Edinburgh School of Law. His additional scholarship focuses on issues of privacy, constitutional interpretation, and the nature of constitutional constraints. His articles have appeared in, among others, Northwestern, UCLA, Texas, Washington University, Indiana, Boston College, Fordham, and Connecticut law reviews as well as the Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology and the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law. He won the law school’s Outstanding Article Publication award three times.
Steven Van Dyke joins the Law School as an assistant clinical professor, after serving for many years in an adjunct professor role. He has worked for over fifteen years as a public defender with the Committee for Public Counsel Services (CPCS). Throughout that time, he has represented indigent clients accused of crimes in Suffolk, Essex, and Middlesex counties. He has also served in the CPCS training unit.
He is a graduate of Boston College Law School (’08) and Cornell University (’05). While at BC Law, he took part in the BC Defenders program and received the Susan Grant Award for public service achievement and leadership. He was also a member of the BC Law Mock Trial team, which he now coaches. He is one of the 2023 recipients of CPCS’ Willie J. Davis and Edward J. Duggan Award for outstanding criminal defense advocacy.