Georgetown Law

Professor Bonneau teaches and writes in the areas of legal analysis, communications, rhetoric, culture, and the arts. She regularly teaches Legal Practice and an upper level writing seminar, and has taught seminars in Art Law and Judicial Opinion Writing. Her scholarship takes a cultural approach to the law and its language, focusing on conflicts involving the arts, authorship, and free expression. She has published in the Tulane Law Review, receiving the John Minor Wisdom Award, the Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts, and the St. John’s Law Review. Professor Bonneau is also the co-author of Legal Writing in Context, now in its second edition.

Prior to teaching, Professor Bonneau practiced commercial litigation at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, and at Hancock & Estabrook, LLP, including its appellate practice. She was a law clerk for Hon. Norman A. Mordue at the United States District Court of the Northern District of New York. Professor Bonneau has a BA in English and Art History from Cornell University and received a JD from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law.