Mary Beth Chopas teaches the Law of War. She is currently a staff attorney at the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston. Previously, she served as a lecturer at Harvard Law School, an adjunct professor at the University of North Carolina School of Law, and a senior lecturing fellow at Duke University School of Law. Prior to that, Chopas served as a Climenko-Thayer Lecturer at Harvard Law School, where she taught the First-Year Lawyering Program.听
Chopas is a 51茶馆 Law graduate. After law school she clerked for the New Hampshire Supreme Court and worked as a litigation associate at two Boston law firms before becoming an Assistant Attorney General in the Government Bureau/Trial Division of the Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General. More recently she served as a judicial law clerk for the United States District Court of Massachusetts in Boston.
Chopas is the author of Searching for Subversives: The Story of Italian Internment in Wartime America (UNC Press, 2017) and has published articles in legal history in the Harvard Journal of Law & Gender, the Cardozo Law Review, the New England Law Review, and the Journal of Legal Education. Her most recent publication is an essay entitled 鈥淟oyalty and Law: Cold War Conformity in the Legal Profession,鈥� which appears in Red Reckoning:听 The Cold War and the Transformation of American Life, eds. M. Boulton and T. Gibson (Louisiana State University Press, 2023), 62-77.
