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About Andrea Boyack

Professor Andrea Boyack joins Mizzou Law from Washburn University School of Law where she was the Norman R. Pozez Chair of Business & Transactional Law and co-director of the school’s Business and Transactional Law Center. Professor Boyack has written and published extensively in the areas of consumer law and housing issues, including pieces on tenant rights and eviction, consumer bankruptcy, housing integration and affordability, the Foreclosure Crisis, common interest community governance, and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Professor Boyack is the co-author of a widely used casebook, “Real Estate Transactions: Problems, Cases, and Materials” (Aspen, 6^thed.), and is currently working on a book that explores six different conceptions of housing: “Framing Housing Law and Policy.” Professor Boyack has published numerous additional scholarly articles in law reviews and journals.

Professor Boyack was named the William O. Douglas Professor of the Year at Washburn University and was an invited visiting professor at University of Iowa, Fordham University School of Law, and George Washington University School of Law. Professor Boyack has taught Property and Contracts for over 15 years. She also teaches multiple other courses that pertain to real estate, transactional, finance, and bankruptcy law.

Before she entered academia, Professor Boyack clerked for Judge John Gleeson of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York before practicing corporate, commercial real estate, capital markets, and finance law for more than 13 years in New York City and the Washington, D.C. area. She worked with several large law firms and as regional counsel to a publicly traded national real estate developer. Professor Boyack received her JD from the University of Virginia School of Law, a MALD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and a bachelor’s degree with honors in Russian and International Relations from Brigham Young University.

Latest News Featuring Andrea Boyack

• Professor Andrea Boyack Publishes Article in JOTWELL
• Professor Boyack Publishes Article in Attorney at Law Magazine
• Prof. Boyack Discusses New Consumer Contracts Paper on Podcast
• Prof. Andrea Boyack writes in Bloomberg Law about her forthcoming publication
• MU law professor pushes to redefine modern contracts, advocate for consumer protections

Latest Publications from Andrea Boyack

• Abuse of Contract: Boilerplate Erasure of Consumer Counterparty Rights
• The Need to Reshape Consumer Contract Law
• One Hundred Years of Solitude: A Reconsideration of Single-Family Zoning [reviewing John Infranca, Singling Out Single-Family Zoning, 111 Georgetown Law Review 659 (2023).]
• Property Through a Propriety Lens: Servitudes as American Matryoskii (Russian Dolls) [reviewing Elizabeth Elia, Servitudes Done “Proper”ly: Propriety, Not Contract Law, 37 Journal of Land Use 1 (2023).]
• Real Estate Transactions: Problems, Cases, and Materials, 6th ed.