Hello.  I'm Jay Wexler, and this is my website.  Of course, the whole site is kind of about me, but here's the short version.  I grew up in Peabody, Massachusetts and now live in a loft in the leather district of Boston.  I've been teaching law at Boston University since 2001, and I also write stories and humor pieces and essays and all sorts of other things, many of which you can find somewhere on the site.

Before coming to teach at BU, I worked for two years as an attorney-advisor at the U.S. Department of Justice in the Office of Legal Counsel, the office that (long, long after I left) issued the infamous "torture memo."  Before that I clerked for Judge David Tatel on the D.C. Circuit and Justice Ginsburg at the Supreme Court.  I have a B.A. in East Asian Studies from Harvard, a M.A. in religious studies from the University of Chicago Divinity School, and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.

Before law school I lived for a total of about two years in Asia, including Taiwan, Xiamen P.R.C., Hong Kong, and Japan.  In the spring of 2008, I taught in Lyon, France, and Krakow, Poland.

My CV, current as of January 2012, is right here.

I'm married to a hot lady named Karen and have a seven year old son Walter, who is cute. 

You can reach me by email at jaywex@bu.edu