Julissa Milligan Joins BU Law’s Technology & Cyberlaw Clinic

Milligan brings experience representing technology companies in privacy and data security litigation and regulatory enforcement actions.

Julissa Milligan joined Boston University School of Law as a visiting professor in the Technology & Cyberlaw Clinic, in which BU Law students advise MIT researchers on legal risks arising from innovative research and start-ups. Before joining the BU Law faculty, she represented technology companies in privacy and data security litigation and regulatory enforcement actions at Perkins Coie LLP. Milligan’s practice spanned the legal lifecycle—she counseled companies on risks arising from innovative products, defended entities facing regulatory investigations and enforcement actions, and represented technology companies in privacy and data security-related litigation at the district and appellate levels. She briefed and advised communications companies on electronic surveillance issues, including questions under the First and Fourth Amendments. She also analyzed issues arising from cyberterrorism investigations as an intern for the Department of Justice’s National Security Division, Counterterrorism Section.

Milligan received her JD from Harvard Law School, where she served as editor-in-chief of the Harvard National Security Journal and as an editor of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy. While at Harvard Law, she obtained a Mead Cross Cultural Research Grant to fund her research on Turkish constitutional law and received a Heyman Summer Fellowship. She graduated summa cum laude from Wheaton College (IL).

In the Technology & Cyberlaw Clinic, BU Law students work with MIT and BU students to advise and defend their innovative technology projects, ventures, and academic activities. This includes work in the areas of intellectual property, data security, cybersecurity, and technology regulatory compliance. Students are involved in all aspects of the clinic’s work, including counseling, negotiation and response to legal threats, and occasional litigation matters. 

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