Biographical Sketch
Professor Boyack’s diverse legal background includes private practice work in corporate finance, real estate development and capital markets. Last year, Professor Boyack was a visiting associate professor at Catholic University Columbus School of Law, where she taught Property and Public International Law. She also has been an adjunct professor at George Mason University Law School where she taught Real Estate Finance Law. Professor Boyack is counsel with Reed Smith, LLP and was previously in-house as regional counsel to Toll Brothers, Inc., a national development company. Prior to that, Professor Boyack practiced corporate and real estate law in both New York City and Washington, D.C., with O’Melveny and Meyers, Goodwin Proctor and Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver and Jacobson. Professor Boyack has an advanced degree in international law and diplomacy.

Following law school, Professor Boyack clerked for Judge John Gleeson of the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York. While in law school, Boyack was notes editor of the Virginia Journal of International Law and directed the school’s Philip C. Jessup International Moot Court Competition. Professor Boyack studied Russian in Moscow in 1990 and remains proficient enough in the language to have served as a translator for two global satellite conferences.

Professor Boyack’s current research interests include comparative community governance law, property rules vs. standards and international development and property rights. She is the author of “Independence and Group Rights in the Baltics: The Case of a Double-Minority” 35 Virginia Journal of International Law 385 (1995).

Education
B.A., Brigham Young University, J.D., University of Virginia; M.A.L.D., The Fletcher School, Tufts University

Current Semester Courses
Modern Real Estate Transaction