Boston College teaching record

Stephanie Farne

Legal Information Librarian & Lecturer

Law

Biography

Stephanie J. (Burke) Farne joined Boston College Law School Library as a legal information librarian and a lecturer in law in February 2021. She teaches semester-long courses in advanced legal research. In 2023, she received the Boston College Law School LSA Adjunct Faculty Award. Before joining BC Law, she was a reference librarian at Babson College, WilmerHale, Boston University School of Law and Harvard Law School. Farne is a member of the Law Librarians of New England and the American Association of Law Libraries. She is a graduate of UMass Amherst, Northeastern University School of Law and Simmons University.

Official evaluation summary

4.69 / 5

Based on 212 aggregate responses from BC Avalanche/Blue evaluations.

Courses taught

Ratings are this instructor’s response-weighted averages from Boston College’s official course evaluations, on a scale of 1 to 5.

LAWS8130 Advanced Legal Research
Instructor rating 4.73 / 5 · Course rating 4.65 / 5 · 106 responses
Taught Spring 2026, Spring 2025, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021
LAWS2110 Critical Perspectives: Law, Context, and Professional Identity
Instructor rating 4.62 / 5 · Course rating 3.77 / 5 · 89 responses
Taught Fall 2024
LAWS8765 International and Foreign Legal Research
Instructor rating 4.82 / 5 · Course rating 4.88 / 5 · 17 responses
Taught Fall 2025, Fall 2024

Data freshness

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