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Patricia L. Bellia

Lilly Endowment Associate Professor of Law, Notre Dame Law School
J.D., Yale Law School, 1995
A.B., Harvard University, 1991

Patricia L. Bellia, Lilly Endowment Associate Professor of Law at the Notre Dame Law School, teaches and researches in the areas of constitutional law, administrative law, cyberlaw, electronic surveillance law, and copyright law. She will teach Constitutional Law at the Law School during the spring 2007 semester. Bellia is co-author of a leading cyberlaw casebook and has published several articles on Internet law (particularly surveillance and privacy issues) and separation of powers.

Bellia earned her A.B. summa cum laude from Harvard University in 1991, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Before attending Yale Law School, she worked at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, serving as an editor for Foreign Policy magazine and co-authoring a book on self-determination movements. At Yale, she was editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal, executive editor of the Yale Journal of International Law, and student director of the Immigration Legal Services clinic. Upon graduation in 1995, she clerked for Judge José A. Cabranes of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Justice Sandra Day O’Connor of the Supreme Court of the United States. Before joining the Notre Dame faculty in 2000, Bellia worked for three years as an attorney-advisor in the Office of Legal Counsel of the U.S. Department of Justice.

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