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Molly Bishop

Assistant Professor of Law, General Faculty
J.D., Columbia University School of Law, 1997
A.B., Harvard University, 1991

Molly Bishop graduated magna cum laude in 1991 from Harvard University with an A.B. in English and American literature and language. She earned her law degree from Columbia University in 1997, where she served as a note editor for the Columbia Law Review and was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. After graduation, Bishop clerked for the Hon. Eugene H. Nickerson, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York. She then spent four years as a litigation associate with the firm Covington & Burling, first in Washington, D.C., and then in New York. In 2002, Bishop joined the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Intelligence Policy and Review, where she represented the United States on terrorism-related matters before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. She taught oral advocacy classes at Virginia for a year as a lecturer before joining the faculty in 2005. She also served as the Law School's director of public service from 2005-07.

Prior to attending law school, Bishop studied theater at Northwestern University’s M.F.A. directing program and directed plays professionally in New York.

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