Professor Bonneau was an attorney at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, in its Manhattan office, and subsequently a partner at Hancock & Estabrook, LLP.  Her practice areas included appellate practice and procedure, commercial litigation, employment discrimination, and antitrust law. Professor Bonneau was a law clerk for Hon. Norman A. Mordue at the United States District Court of the Northern District of New York.  Before coming to Georgetown, Professor Bonneau was a legal writing professor at the Syracuse University College of Law.

Scholarship

Books

Sonya G. Bonneau & Susan A. McMahon, Legal Writing in Context (Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press 2017). [BOOK]

Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals

Sonya G. Bonneau, The Romantic Author as Compelled Speaker, 97 Tul. L. Rev. 53-96 (2022).
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Sonya Bonneau & Susan McMahon, Disruptive Lawyering 101, 25 Legal Writing 37-43 (2021).
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Sonya G. Bonneau, Paul Alan Levy, Eugene Mopsik, Katherine C. Spelman, Nancy E. Wolff & Brad A. Greenberg, Panel, Session 5: The Intersection of Moral Rights and Other Laws, 8 Geo. Mason J. Int'l Com. L. 106-124 (2016).
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U.S. Supreme Court Briefs

Motion for Leave to File and Brief for Amici Curiae Art Scholars and Historians in Support of Petitioner, Knox v. Pennsylvania, No. 18-949 (U.S. Mar. 6, 2019).
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