BACKGROUND

Mary-Rose Papandrea joined the BC Law faculty in 2004. Prior to coming to Boston College, Professor Papandrea was a visiting assistant professor at the University of Connecticut and Fordham.

After graduating from Yale College and the University of Chicago Law School, Professor Papandrea clerked for Hon. John G. Koeltl of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Hon. Douglas H. Ginsburg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and Hon. David H. Souter of the U.S. Supreme Court. Following her clerkships, Professor Papandrea spent several years as a litigator at Williams & Connolly in Washington, D.C., where she specialized in First Amendment and media defense litigation. Papandrea is Chair of the AALS National Security Law Section and past Chair of the AALS Mass Communication Law Section. She is a member of the Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York and District of Columbia bars.

Professor Papandrea's teaching interests include civil procedure, constitutional law, media law, and national security and civil liberties. Her research focuses on the impact of new technology on our understanding of the First Amendment and Media law.

Professor Papandrea will be on sabbatical for the 2011-12 academic year. 

EDUCATION

B.A., Yale University; J.D., University of Chicago

RECENT ACTIVITIES

Presentations:

Panelist, “The Espionage Act and the First Amendment after WikiLeaks, ”American Society of International Law Annual Meeting (Washington, DC)(March 2011).

Moderator, “The First Amendment Politics of the Roberts Court,” at 2011 AALS Annual Conference (San Francisco, CA) (panel for Mass Communication Law section). Panelists included Erwin Chemerinsky, Eugene Volokh, and Larissa Lidsky.

“New York Times Co. v. Sullivan and the Constitutionalization of Libel Law,” at Paris University X (Nanterre University) (Nanterre, France) (May 2010).

“Government Openness and Accountability Under the Obama Administration,” Executive Power and the Obama Administration symposium sponsored by Boston College’s Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy (April 2010).

Presented “The First Amendment and the Non-Work-Related Expressive Activities of Public Employees,” at Brigham Young Symposium on the Government Speech Doctrine (March 2010).

Presented "The Future of Student Speech Rights" at a symposium on "The Future of the First Amendment," at Williamette University College of Law, (October 2009).

Presented "Student Speech Rights in the Digital Age" at the University of Cincinnati Law School faculty workshop (January 2008).

Moderator for panel on "National Security" at 2008 AALS Annual Conference (panel sponsored by Section on Women in Legal Education).

Panelist on the "Right of Access" at the 2007 Annual Communications Law Conference sponsored by the Practicing Law Institute (New York City, Nov, 2007).

Panelist on "Student Speech Rights and the Internet" at the Second Circuit Federal Bar Council (October 2007).

Presented "Legal Rights and Liabilities of the Blogosphere" at the annual conference of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers (Boston, Sept. 2007).

Presented "The Press and National Security Information" at Syracuse University College of Law faculty workshop (Sept. 2007).

Panelist (along with Ahkil Reed Amar and Marci Hamilton) for the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities Annual Symposium "The Least Dangerous Branch? Liberty, Justice, and the US Supreme Court" (Oct. 2006).

Delivered inaugural Charles S. Rowe First Amendment lecture at Washington and Lee, titled "The Press and National Security (Sept. 2006).

Other Activities:

Submitted written testimony to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence for its hearing on the media’s rights and responsibilities with respect to leaks of classified information.

Appeared on PBS's WNYW-TV (New York City) to debate Gabriel Schoenfeld on whether the New York Times should be indicted (aired on March 4, 2007).  

Frequent commentator on New England Cable News, Emily Rooney Show (WGBH),and local network affiliates of Fox and NBC; quoted as expert in The Boston Globe,The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and assorted other national and regionalpublications on constitutional and media law issues.

Contributor to Citizen Media Law Project Blog (administered by Citizen Media LawProject at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society), available here.

Awards:

• "2006 Faculty Member of the Year" by the Women's Law Center, Boston College Law School.

Promotions:
Promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure, March 2009.

COURSES

Fall 2011: Law Review
Spring 2012: No courses taught

PUBLICATIONS

"The Publication of National Security Information in the Digital Age." Journal of National Security Law & Policy 5, no.1 (2011): 119-130.

"The Free Speech Rights of Off-Duty Government Employees" Brigham Young University Law Review 2010, no.6 (2010): 2117-2174.

•  "Where Intellectual Property and Free Speech Collide." Boston College Law Review 50, no.5 (November 2009): 1307-1314.


"Student Speech Rights in the Digital Age." Florida Law Review 60, no.5 (December 2008): 1027-1102.


"Lapdogs, Watchdogs, and Scapegoats: The Press and National Security Information."  Indiana Law Journal 83, no.1 (Winter 2008): 233-305.


"Justice Thomas and the Electronic Media." In Online Symposium: Justice Thomas and the First Amendment. First Amendment Center Online,  10.08.07, http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/justice-thomas-and-the-electronic-media


"Citizen Journalism and the Reporter's Privilege." Minnesota Law Review  91 (2007): 515-591.

"Under Attack: The Public’s Right To Know and the War On Terror" (Symposium: Immigration Law and Human Rights: Legal Line Drawing Post-September 11) Boston College Third World Law Journal 25, no. 1 (Winter 2005): 35-80.


With Kevin T. Baine. "The Door to Open Government in Washington, D.C." In Tapping Officials Secrets: the Door to Open Government in the 50 States and D.C., DC1-DC12. Washington, D.C.: Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, 2001.


"Standing to Allege Violations of the Doctrine of Specialty: An Examination of the Relationship Between the Individual and the Sovereign." University of Chicago Law Review 62 (1995): 1187-1213.