Christina Schaper

Christina R. Schaper

Lecturer


BA, Haverford College
JD, Boston College Law School


Biography

Ms. Schaper received her JD, cum laude, from Boston College Law School in 1995. As a law student, she was Executive Editor of the Boston College Third World Law Journal. After graduating, she worked as a corporate law associate at Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault, LLP.  From 1999 to 2000, she worked at Hemenway & Barnes LLP and at The Center for Women & Enterprise in Boston. From 2000 to 2001, she served as General Counsel at Ennovate Networks, Inc. in Boxborough and from 2008 to 2013, she served as General Counsel at East Hill Management Company, LLC in Providence. From 2001 to 2011, Ms. Schaper taught Business Law for the Paralegal Professional Certificate Program at Northeastern University, and since 2008, she has taught Business Law in the Paralegal Professional Certificate Program at Boston University’s Metropolitan College. She has also taught business law at Curry College in Milton and Assumption College in Worcester.  Ms. Schaper also teaches in the Law School’s Transactional Law Program and with the University’s Center for English Language and Orientation Program for LLM students.  Ms. Schaper also maintains an active business law legal practice.  Ms. Schaper received her BA from Haverford College.

Activities & Engagements

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Courses

LAW AM 721

EFFECTIVE TRANSACTIONAL LAWYERING

3 credits

Successful transactional lawyers build their practices by adding value to their clients' transactions. In addition to having strong drafting and negotiation skills, they think creatively and strategically, more like skilled chess players than technicians. They are also effective, diplomatic communicators. This seminar teaches students how, as transactional lawyers, they can bring added value to a deal. Through role plays, simulations, in- class exercises and written assignments, students learn strategies for translating the concepts of a business transaction into legal documents. Emphasis will be placed on understanding the client's business and strategic objectives for a deal; identifying the risk and value issues that the client has not yet considered; structuring the deal; and negotiating and drafting the deal documents to achieve the client's goals. Note: Although strategic contract drafting is an element of the course, this is not a class dedicated to contract drafting. Instead, the focus is on how the various provisions of deal documents interact with each other to further a client's business objectives, and on how to work strategically to structure, negotiate, and draft the provisions to achieve those objectives. This class is open to foreign-trained LLM students in the LLM in American Law and Intellectual Property Law Programs. Prerequisites: contracts, unless otherwise waived by the instructor. Enrollment limited to 12 students.


SPRG 2026: LAW AM 721 A1, Jan 12th to Apr 22nd 2026
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Thu 2:10 pm 4:10 pm 3 Christina R. Schaper
LAW JD 893

Health Justice Practicum

2 credits

The Health Justice Practicum is a new one-semester, two-credit course enrolling a maximum of six students. Students will collaborate with frontline health care providers who serve marginalized populations on projects that require legal and problem-solving skills and where providers and/or patients have identified a systemic problem affecting patients' health and wellbeing. In Spring 2022, we will be collaborating with Project RESPECT, an integrated obstetrics, addiction medicine, and behavioral health clinic at Boston Medical Center that serves low-income pregnant and parenting people in recovery from substance use disorders (SUDs), especially opioid use disorders (OUDs). Project RESPECT providers have identified a problem in Massachusetts law that significantly harms low-income parents in recovery from SUDs and their children, disproportionately harming Black, Indigenous, or other people of color (BIPOC) families. Children born to women in evidence-based medication-assisted recovery (e.g., methadone treatment) must be reported at birth to the Department of Children and Families as if the mother were actively using drugs. Children born to BIPOC mothers are more likely than children born to white mothers both to be reported to child protection authorities and to be separated from their families as a result. The trauma of custody disruption has demonstrated serious effects on both recovering parents and child health and development. We will explore and advocate for possible legal and policy advocacy solutions to these issues--for example, changes in mandatory reporting laws and reformed child protection agency practices to eliminate discriminatory decisionmaking. Students will attend group meetings as well as work on research and advocacy. The project work will allow students to hone their research, analytical, writing, presentation, and problem-solving skills. Regular group meetings will deepen students' understanding of their projects by providing a broader context. Students will also meet individually or in teams with the faculty supervisor to discuss their project work. GRADING NOTICE: This class will not offer the CR/NC/H option.


FALL 2025: LAW JD 893 A1, Sep 2nd to Dec 19th 2025
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Fri 10:30 am 12:00 pm 2 Debbie FreitasCristina Freitas
SPRG 2026: LAW JD 893 B1, Jan 12th to Apr 22nd 2026
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Fri 10:30 am 12:00 pm 2 Cristina FreitasDebbie Freitas
LAW AM 704

Research and Writing Seminar (LLM)

2 credits

This two-credit Legal Research and Writing seminar is required for LL.M. students in the American Law program and optional for students in the LL.M. programs in Banking and Financial Law and Taxation. It is specifically designed to introduce foreign lawyers to the basic principles of American legal writing. In small class settings and individual conferences, students receive guidance on drafting and editing memoranda and agreements. Their work is critiqued and rewritten. The research component of the seminar trains students to locate cases, statutes and secondary material through indexing systems and the latest computer technology. Research assignments are integrated into writing assignments -- exposing students to the methods of US legal analyses -- so that by the end of the term, students obtain the skills needed to write memoranda appropriate for submission to US law firms.


FALL 2025: LAW AM 704 A1, Sep 2nd to Dec 19th 2025
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Wed 9:00 am 10:15 am 2 Nadine Nasser Donovan
FALL 2025: LAW AM 704 B1, Sep 2nd to Dec 19th 2025
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Wed 9:00 am 10:15 am 2 Benjamin Shorey
FALL 2025: LAW AM 704 C1, Sep 2nd to Dec 19th 2025
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Wed 2:10 pm 3:25 pm 2 Niles
FALL 2025: LAW AM 704 D1, Sep 2nd to Dec 19th 2025
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Wed 4:30 pm 5:45 pm 2 Christina R. Schaper
FALL 2025: LAW AM 704 E1, Sep 2nd to Dec 19th 2025
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Wed 6:30 pm 7:45 pm 2 Hugh Dun Rappaport
FALL 2025: LAW AM 704 F1, Sep 2nd to Dec 19th 2025
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Wed 6:30 pm 7:45 pm 2 Lucinda Rivera
FALL 2025: LAW AM 704 G1, Sep 2nd to Dec 19th 2025
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Thu 8:30 am 9:45 am 2 Hoerner
FALL 2025: LAW AM 704 H1, Sep 2nd to Dec 19th 2025
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Thu 10:50 am 12:05 pm 2 Maureen T. Leo
FALL 2025: LAW AM 704 I1, Sep 2nd to Dec 19th 2025
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Thu 11:00 am 12:15 pm 2 Jason Klumb
FALL 2025: LAW AM 704 J1, Sep 2nd to Dec 19th 2025
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Thu 11:15 am 12:30 pm 2 Liliana Mangiafico
FALL 2025: LAW AM 704 K1, Sep 2nd to Dec 19th 2025
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Thu 2:10 pm 3:25 pm 2 Brooke Arlington
FALL 2025: LAW AM 704 L1, Sep 2nd to Dec 19th 2025
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Thu 6:30 pm 7:45 pm 2 Sean Ahern
FALL 2025: LAW AM 704 M1, Sep 2nd to Dec 19th 2025
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Thu 6:30 pm 7:45 pm 2 Jin-Ho King
FALL 2025: LAW AM 704 Y3, Sep 2nd to Dec 4th 2025
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Thu 4:20 pm 6:20 pm 2 Liliana Mangiafico
SPRG 2026: LAW AM 704 A2, Jan 12th to Apr 22nd 2026
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ARR 12:00 am 12:00 am 2
SPRG 2026: LAW AM 704 B2, Jan 12th to Apr 22nd 2026
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ARR 12:00 am 12:00 am 2
SPRG 2026: LAW AM 704 Y1, Jan 12th to Apr 22nd 2026
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Wed 2:10 pm 3:25 pm 2 Liliana Mangiafico
SPRG 2026: LAW AM 704 Y2, Jan 12th to Apr 22nd 2026
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Wed 3:45 pm 5:00 pm 2 Liliana Mangiafico