Ray D. Madoff is a professor at Boston College Law School and a prominent critic of donor-advised funds, advocating for greater transparency and payout requirements. He earned an A.B. from Harvard College in 1982 and a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1985. After graduating from law school, he clerked for Judge Levin H. Campbell on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit from 1985 to 1986. He then practiced corporate and securities law for seven years at Hale and Dorr (now Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr) in Boston from 1986 to 1993, during which he also taught as an adjunct professor at Boston College Law School. In 1993, Madoff joined the faculty at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University as a full-time professor, where he taught until 2002. His scholarship centers on trusts and estates law, nonprofit organizations, and philanthropy policy. He has authored numerous articles, book chapters, and policy papers, and has testified before U.S. congressional committees on charitable giving regulations. Madoff maintains an active role in legal academia, contributing to discussions on the structure and regulation of charitable institutions.