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Mitch Fallon

Mitchell Fallon

Mitch Fallon

Mitchell Fallon

Organization

Rappaport Center at Boston College Law School

Program

Rappaport Law and Public Policy Fellow

Year

2024

Rappaport Public Policy Fellows spend 10 weeks each summer serving with the highest levels of state and municipal governments in the Greater Boston area. The program includes students from graduate and professional programs at local universities.

Law School
Suffolk University Law School

Graduate School
Suffolk University

Undergraduate School
Salem State University

Fellowship
Governor’s Office of Cabinet Affairs and Strategic Planning.

Mitchell “Mitch” Fallon is a 2L at Suffolk University Law School. Fallon received his Master of Public Administration from Suffolk University and holds bachelor’s degrees in economics and finance from Salem State University. While pursuing his MPA, Fallon was selected as a Joseph Moakley Fellow to work with Senator Ed Markey’s Washington, DC, office. There, he aided staff in relation to legislation focused on curbing the opioid epidemic. Fallon is most passionate about advocating for workers’ rights through a holistic lens to foster a more equitable economy. He had the privilege of supporting baristas across Boston while organizing the first independent coffee shop unions in Massachusetts. He also partnered with the Massachusetts AFL-CIO in support of state-level wage theft legislation. Fallon has gained valuable legal experience as a judicial intern in Massachusetts’ Superior Courts and as a law clerk to the state legislature’s Judiciary Committee. Fallon has served as President of the American Constitution Society at Suffolk Law during the past year. He is also a member of Suffolk Law’s Moot Court Honor Board Journal of Trial and Appellate Advocacy where he wrote about the need to apply due process protections under strict scrutiny to Massachusetts’ pretrial detention laws. Fallon will spend his Rappaport summer at the Governor’s Office of Cabinet Affairs and Strategic Planning.