Andrea J. Boyack

Prof. Andrea J. Boyack is a professor at Washburn University School of Law and co-director of the school’s Business and Transactional Law Center. She teaches debtor/creditor law, property, real estate transactions, commercial leasing, contracts and other courses relating to real estate, transactions and finance. Prof. Boyack has written and presented extensively in the areas of bankruptcy(particularly consumer bankruptcy and financial protection), property and contract law theory, and laws and policies relevant to housing and capital markets. Prior to joining the faculty of WashburnLaw, she was a visiting professor in at Fordham University School of Law and George WashingtonUniversity School of Law. Before she entered academia, Prof. Boyack practiced commercial real estate and finance law for nearly 14 years in New York City and the Washington, D.C., area with several large law firms and as regional counsel to a publicly traded national real estate developer. In practice, she dealt with a broad range of issues relating to finance and real estate development, including asset-backed financing and securitization, common interest community governance, commercial leasing and residential development. Prof. Boyack received her B.A. with honors in Russian and International Relations from Brigham Young University, her M.A.L.D. from the FletcherSchool of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and her J.D. from the University of VirginiaSchool of Law.