Hello– I am the owner of Pilarczyk LLC d/b/a Aussie Pet Mobile Arlington, a lecturer at Tufts University and Boston University School of Law; and formerly the director of the Executive LL.M. in International Business Law and the Legal English Certificate Program at Boston University School of Law. Until August 2020 I served as Director of Executive, Online and Special Initiatives, where I was employed since 2009. In 2020 I entered the world of small business ownership and opened an Aussie Pet Mobile franchise.

I received my B.A. with Honours in Philosophy from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, and a J.D. cum laude from Boston University School of Law in 1995, where I was publications editor of the Probate Law Journal and an Edward F. Hennessey Scholar. Following law school, i earned my LL.M. from McGill University’s Institute of Comparative Law, where I was awarded the Association of Quebec Law Professors’ annual prize for best master’s thesis, the Max Crestohl Prize and the Osgoode Society Prize for Legal History. In 2003 I completed my Doctor of Civil Law degree from McGill University, was named to the Dean’s Honour List and awarded the Osgoode Society Prize for Legal History and the Dean’s Research Fellowship. I have the good fortune to teach two courses I created, Introduction to U.S. Legal Culture and Topics in American Law at BU and I have also been a visiting lecturer at Tufts University’s Ex College numerous times, where I was recognized as an exceptional instructor on the basis of student evaluations for my course, Famous Trials in U.S. History. In addition, I teach Introduction to American Law, Introduction to Criminal Law, and Introduction to Alternative Dispute Resolution as part of the special programs put on by my office. Since 2004, I  have volunteered as a mediator on the Massachusetts District Court Pane where I have mediated some 300 ‘summary process’ (i.e., landlord/tenant) cases. I also give occasional public lectures on areas of general legal interest, and try to keep adding to my body of published scholarship every couple of years.

Prior to rejoining the BU Law community, I served as founding associate director of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy’s LL.M. in International Law from 2007 to 2009. I was a Sessional Lecturer at McGill’s law school from 1998-2003, teaching courses in Canadian Legal History and Children and the Law, as well as a seminar I designed on comparative nineteenth-century family law. Since 1992 I have been a position trader, specializing in closed-end funds and microcap and smallcap securities.

My research interests are in comparative legal history, specifically the intersection of family law and criminal law; and I collect 19th century American murder trial reports. It sounds morbid, but I help preserve our legal history in this way!

For my LinkedIn profile, visit http://www.linkedin.com/in/iancpilarczyk. Follow me on Twitter, including my legal facts of the week, @IanCPilarczyk.