Christina Mulligan

Biography

Professor Mulligan teaches constitutional law, internet law, intellectual property law, and trusts & estates. Her scholarship takes a new formalist approach to understanding constitutional law and developing property law in the digital age. Significant projects have included articulating a system of property rights in data, investigating the interaction between property and intellectual property law in the Internet of Things, and exploring what constitutional interpreters can learn from early language translations of the U.S. Constitution.

While at Brooklyn, Professor Mulligan has researched as a visiting scholar at the Georgetown Center for the Constitution and taught as a visiting associate professor at Yale Law School. Previously, she taught at the University of Georgia and was a postdoctoral associate and lecturer in law at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. Her scholarship has been published in a variety of journals and law reviews, including Boston University Law Review, Notre Dame Law Review, and Constitutional Commentary.

Professor Mulligan earned her bachelor’s degree cum laude and her law degree cum laude from Harvard University, where she worked as a production and article editor for the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology. She has also earned an Executive Master in Public Administration from New York University. Before entering academia, she served as a law clerk for Judge Charles F. Lettow of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.