She served as a law clerk to Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and thereafter to Justice David H. Souter of the U.S. Supreme Court. Following her clerkships, Prof. Papandrea spent several years as a litigator at Williams & Connolly in Washington, D.C., where she specialized in First Amendment and media defense litigation. One of her more recent articles is titled “Citizen Journalism and the Reporter's Privilege,” 91 Minnesota Law Review 515 (2007).