Bringing a wide range of interests and expertise, this round of hires follows eight from last year and seven more from 2022 and 2023.
Marco Basile
Basile, a legal and constitutional historian, joins BC Law as an assistant professor. Before entering academia, he practiced litigation and clerked for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the US Supreme Court and for Judges David Barron and Paul Watford on the federal courts of appeals.
Raúl Carrillo
Carillo comes to BC Law as an assistant professor. His scholarship focuses on financial regulation and technology. Previously, Carillo was a Kellis E. Parker teaching fellow, academic fellow, and lecturer in law at Columbia Law School. Before his fellowship, Carillo was an Associate Research Scholar at Yale Law School.
Caroline G. Cox
Cox joins BC Law as an assistant professor. Previously, she worked as program director for Vanderbilt Law School’s Energy, Environment, and Land Use Program. She was a law clerk to Judge Jane Branstetter Stranch of the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
Thomas P. Crocker
Crocker, whose scholarship focuses on issues in constitutional law and theory, taught at the University of South Carolina Rice School of Law before being named professor at BC Law. His book, Overcoming Necessity: Emergency, Constraint, and the Meanings of American Constitutionalism (Yale University Press, 2020), received the 2020 Palmer Civil Liberties Prize.
Steven Van Dyke ’08
Van Dyke joins BC Law 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. He has also served in the CPCS training unit.