Alexis Anderson is an associate clinical professor at the Law School's civil litigation clinic at the Legal Assistance Bureau (LAB) in Waltham, MA. She joined Boston College Law School in 1983 and has taught a range of clinical and legal history courses. From 1983-1989, she was a full-time faculty supervisor at LAB. Following that opportunity, she supervised BC Law's extern program and taught and coordinated the ILPR course. In addition, she has taught the survey American Legal History course and a seminar focusing on the development of free speech theory. From 2001-04, she served as Director of Advocacy and faculty advisor to BC Law's Board of Student Advisors.

Prior to coming to Boston College Law School, Professor Anderson was a litigator in a large, civil practice law firm in Philadelphia. She received her law degree and her Masters in Legal History from the University of Virginia. In recent summers, Professor Anderson served as the project director for the State Department's Fulbright Summer Institute for International Scholars, a six-week graduate level course for foreign university professors cohosted by Boston College Law School and the School of Arts and Sciences. The program provided an opportunity for faculty to develop international contacts and share perspectives on the role of law in the development of the American character, political system, and culture.

Professor Anderson remains active in regional and national clinical organizations and continues to publish in both the clinical and legal history fields.

EDUCATION
B.A., Wake Forest University; M.A./J.D., University of Virginia.

RECENT ACTIVITIES
Chair of the BC Law Externship Task Force for 2004–2005.

Small group facilitator at the Association of American Law Schools Conference on Clinical Legal Education, San Diego, California, in May 2005.

Completed work on a two-summer project funded through a Teaching, Advising and Mentoring Grant awarded on behalf of the ILPR faculty.  Project entailed revamping the ILPR course and developing new case materials in the criminal justice field.  The redesigned course will pilot in the spring semester of 2005.

Clinical supervisor at the BC Law Legal Assistance Bureau for 2004–2005.

WORK IN PROGRESS
With Norah Wylie. "Beyond the ADA: How Clinics Can Assist Law Students with 'Non-Visible' Disabilities and Bridge the Accommodations Gap Between Classroom and Practice." Clinical Law Review (forthcoming 2008)

COURSES
Fall '07: Civil Litigation Clinic Class; Civil Litigation Clinic
Spring '08: Civil Litigation Clinic Class; Civil Litigation Clinic

PUBLICATIONS

• "Ethical Issues in Externships: Confidentiality." In Learning From Practice: A Professional Development Text for Legal Externs, 2nd ed., 67-78. St. Paul, MN: Thomson/West, 2007.
  
• With Lynn Barenberg & Paul R. Tremblay. "Professional Ethics in Interdisciplinary Collaboratives: Zeal, Paternalism and Mandated Reporting." Clinical Law Review  13 (2007): 659-718.
  
• With Arlene Kanter and Cindy Slane. "Ethics in Externships: Confidentiality, Conflicts, and Competence Issues in the Field and in the Classroom." Clinical Law Review 10: no.2 (2004): 473-580.
  
• "New England's Experience with Punishing Political Speech During World War I: A Study in Prosecutorial Discretion." Massachusetts Legal History 4 (1998): 83-135.
  
• Review of Negotiation in the Practice of Law. The AILTO Insider 12 (1998): 3.
  
• Review of The History of the Law in Massachusetts: The Supreme Judicial Court 1692-1992, Russell Osgood, editor. American Journal of Legal History 39 (1995): 261-264.
  
• "The Formative Period of First Amendment Theory, 1870-1915." American Journal of Legal History 24 (1980): 56-75. (Reprinted in Civil Liberties in American History: Major Historical Interpretations, vol. 1, edited by Kermit L.Hall, 1-20. New York: Garland Publishing, 1987.)