Jeremy R. Paul

Jeremy Paul joined the Northeastern University School of Law faculty as dean in 2012. He teaches Constitutional Law, Property and Jurisprudence. A 1978 graduate of Princeton University, he received his law degree from Harvard in 1981. Before coming to Northeastern, Dean Paul served for 23 years on the faculty of the University of Connecticut School of Law, where he was Dean and Thomas F. Gallivan, Jr. Professor of Real Property Law from 2007 until 2012. 

Dean Paul's work has been pub­lished in the Texas Law Review, the Michigan Law Review, the Uni­ver­sity of Southern Cal­i­fornia Law Review, and the Wash­ington Monthly. He is the co-​​author (with Michael Fischl) of the best-​​selling book, Get­ting to Maybe: How to Excel on Law School Exams and author of a widely used introduction to legal reasoning, "A Bedtime Story," published in 74 Virginia Law Review 915 (1988). His most recent article challenges the wisdom of the constitutionally mandated two-term limit on U.S. presidents. 

In addition to his long-term career in teaching, Dean Paul served as a law clerk to Judge Irving R. Kaufman of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit; as Professor-in-Residence at the Appellate Staff of the Civil Division of the US Department of Justice; and as assistant to the president of Travelers Group. He has also taught at the University of Miami (as both assistant and associate professor) and at Boston College Law School (as a visiting professor). 

Dean Paul is a fellow of the American Bar Foundation and the Connecticut Bar Foundation. He serves as co-editor (with Hannah Arterian) of the SSRN Journal on Legal Education, and as a member of the Curriculum Committee of the Association of American Law Schools.