Professor of Law 
Director, Bronfein Family Law Clinic
Co-Director, Center on Applied Feminism
majohnson@ubalt.edu
410.837.5779
John and Frances Angelos Law Center, Room 422
Administrative Assistant: Terry Berk
410.837.5762
John and Frances Angelos Law Center, Room 207
Education
B.A., Dartmouth College, 1987
J.D., cum laude, order of the coif, University of Wisconsin Law School, 1993
Areas of Expertise
Clinical Legal Theory
Domestic Violence
Sexual Harassment
Family Law
Feminist Legal Theory
Property Law
Johnson joined the faculty in 2006. Her scholarship focuses on issues relating to domestic violence, property, feminist legal theory and clinical legal education, and her articles have been published in the U.C. Davis Law Review, the B.Y.U. Law Review, Cardozo Law Review, and the Temple Law Review, among others. She is co-author of the book Lawyers, Clients & Narrative: A Framework for Law Students and Practitioners. Professor Johnson was a Visiting Professor at Georgetown University Law School during the 2012-2013 academic year. Prior to joining the UB faculty, Johnson directed the Domestic Violence Clinic and taught Property and Sex-Based Discrimination at the Washington College of Law, American University; was an employment discrimination litigator, with a special focus on sexual harassment law, at the D.C. firms of Terris, Pravlik & Wagner, Kalijarvi, Chuzi & Newman and the Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights; was a Georgetown Women's Law and Public Policy Fellow; clerked for the Hon. Hector M. Laffitte in the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico; and served as articles editor for the Wisconsin Law Review.
Johnson directs the Bronfein Family Law Clinic, where students represent clients in litigation and systemic advocacy relating to domestic violence and other family law issues. She also teaches Family Law, Property Law, and Special Topics in Applied Feminism and is co-director of the Center on Applied Feminism, which applies the insights of feminist legal theory to legal practice and policy. She has held several leadership roles in the clinical legal education community including Co-President of the Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA), Chair of the Planning Committee, American Association of Law Schools Section on Clinical Legal Education 2014 Conference, and on the Planning Committee for the 2016 Conference. She has also had a leadership role in many feminist organizations and projects, including the Advisory Panel for the Feminist Judgments book series and the Board of Directors of the Women’s Law Center of Maryland. Johnson has received several awards and recognitions, including the 2017 UB Law Outstanding Teaching by a Full-Time Faculty Member award; being named among the Top 25 Women Professors in Maryland in 2013, the 2012 USM Board of Regents' Faculty Award for Public Service, and Professor of the Year by the UB Women's Bar Association in 2011 and 2008. Johnson is a member of the bars of the State of Maryland and the District of Columbia.
Selected Publications
Books
Lawyers, Clients & Narrative: A Framework for Law Students and Practitioners (Carolina Academic Press 2017) (co-authored with Carolyn Grose).
Teaching Lawyers, Clients & Narrative: A Framework For Law Students And Practitioners (Carolina Academic Press 2017) (co-authored with Carolyn Grose).
Law Review Articles and Book Chapters
Security, Converge! – Panel on Intersections of Gender, Economic, Racial and Indigenous (In) Justice, Security, 5 U. Miami R.S.J.L. Rev. 357 (2014) (symposium).
A Home with Dignity: Domestic Violence and Property Rights, 1 BYU L. Rev. 1(2014).
Teaching Social Justice Lawyering: Systematically Integrating Community Legal Education into Law School Clinics, 18 Clinical L. Rev. 401 (2012)(co-author).
Foreword: Applying Feminism Globally, 41 U. Balt. L. Rev. 217 (2012).
Balancing Liberty, Dignity and Safety: The Impact of Domestic Violence Lethality Screening, 32 Cardozo L. Rev. 519 (2010)
'Having it Our Way: Women in Maryland's Workplace Circa 2027' Foreward. 1 MD L.J. Race, Religion, Gender & Class 1 (2010).
Redefining Harm, Reimagining Remedies and Reclaiming Domestic Violence Law, 42 UC Davis L. Rev. 1107 (2009), cited in Douglas E. Abrams, et al., Contemporary Family Law (2d ed. 2009).
Avoiding Harm Otherwise: Reframing Women Employees' Responses to the Harms of Sexual Harassment, 80 Temp. L. Rev. 743 (2007).
An Experiment in Integrating Critical Theory and Clinical Education, 13 Am. U.J. Gender Soc. Pol'y & L. 161 (2005).
A Unified Approach to Causation in Disparate Treatment Cases: Using Sexual Harassment by Supervisors as the Causal Nexus for the Discriminatory Motivating Factor in Mixed Motive Cases, 1993 Wis. L. Rev. 231 (1993), cited in Roy L. Brooks, et. al., Civil Rights Litigation: Cases and Perspectives (3d ed. 2005).
Other Pieces
Only 1 in 4 Women Who Have Been Sexually Harassed Tell Their Employers. Here's Why They're Afraid. The Conversation (June 5, 2018), https://theconversation.com/only-1-in-4-women-who-have-been-sexually-harassed-tell-their-employers-heres-why-theyre-afraid-97436.
Feminist Judgments & #MeToo, 94 Notre Dame L. Rev. Online __ (2018) (forthcoming).
An Examination of the Lethality Assessment Program (LAP): Perspectives on Implementation, Help-seeking, and Victim Empowerment , Violence Against Women (forthcoming 2018) (coauthor with Tara N. Richards, Ph.D., Lane Kirkland Gillespie, Ph.D., and Katherine Kafonek, M.S.).
Gender and LGBTQ Rights in a Trump Presidency, Commentary, http://scholarworks.law.ubalt.edu/lawandtrump/ (Jan. 20, 2017).
Symposium Dialogue: Keynote Speaker Senator Barbara Mikulski, 42 U. Balt. L. Rev. 211 (2013)(Moderated by Professor Margaret E. Johnson).
Foreword: Applying Feminism Globally, 41 U. Balt. L. Rev. 217 (2012).
Articles on Social Science Research Network
Recent Presentations
Clinical and Other Pedagogy, including Narrative Theory
- Presenter, Teaching Clinic through Narrative, Concurrent Session, 2018 AALS Conference on Clinical Legal Education, April 30, 2018, Chicago, IL.
- Moderator, Teaching Legal Analysis in Clinic, UB Law School Clinic Brown Bag, April 17, 2018.
- Guest Lecturer, Teaching Narrative Theory in Clinic, LLM Seminar on Clinical Pedagogy, UDC David A. Clarke School of Law, Washington, D.C., February 9, 2018.
- Guest Lecturer, Narrative, Case Theory, and Collaboration, Immigrant Rights Clinic, University of Baltimore School of Law, Baltimore, MD, January 29, 2018.
- Presenter, Teaching Collaboration, Clinic Brown Bag Meeting, University of Baltimore School of Law, Baltimore, MD, October 16, 2017.
- Presenter, Teaching Through Discussion, Clinic Brown Bag Meeting, University of Baltimore School of Law, Baltimore, MD, April 4, 2017.
- Co-Presenter with Prof. Audrey McFarlane, Shared Self-Assessment of UB Law Learning Objectives, University of Baltimore School of Law Teaching Workshop, Balitmore, MD, February 10, 2017.
- Co-Presenter with Prof. Carolyn Grose, Lawyers, Clients & Narrative: A Framework For Law Students And Practitioners, Penn Law Clinical Legal Studies Workshop, Penn Law School, Philadelphia, PA, December 1, 2016 (invited).
- Co-Presenter with Carolyn Grose, Lawyers, Clients & Narrative: A Framework For Law Students And Practitioners, Mitchell | Hamline School of Law, St. Paul, MN, November 4, 2016 (invited).
- Co-Presenter with Carolyn Grose, Lawyers, Clients & Narrative: A Framework For Law Students And Practitioners, Clinical Law Review Writers Workshop, NYU Law School, NYC, NY, September 24, 2016.
- Presenter, Lawyering through Stories, University of Baltimore School of Law, September 22, 2016.
- Plenary Presenter, Reflections and Lessons, AALS Clinical Conference, Baltimore, MD, May 3, 2016.
- Book Presenter, Lawyering through Stories, AALS Clinical Conference, Baltimore, MD, May 3, 2016.
- Guest Lecturer, Lawyering through Stories, LL.M. Course on Clinical Pedagogy and Systemic Change, David A. Clark School of Law, University of the District of Columbia, Washington, DC, April 14, 2016.
- Presenter, Lawyering through Stories, Clinical Law Review Writers Workshop, NYU Law School, NYC, NY, September 26, 2015.
- Presenter, Lawyering through Stories, Faculty Research and Development, University of Baltimore School of Law, Baltimore, MD, September 3, 2015.
Feminist Legal Theory and Gender Justice Issues
- Presenter, Menstrual Justice, Works-In-Progress, 2018 AALS Conference on Clinical Legal Education, May 2, 2018, Chicago, IL.
- Lecturer, Sexual Harassment and Applied Feminism, Special Topics in Applied Feminism, University of Baltimore School of Law, Baltimore, MD, April 16, 2018.
- Moderator, Keeping Religion in the Conversation, If/When/How Panel, University of Baltimore School of Law, Baltimore, MD, April 5, 2018.
- Presenter, Sexual Harassment in the Workplace, University of Baltimore School of Law, Baltimore, MD, February 27, 2018.
- Presenter, Maryland County Jail Reproductive Justice Policies, Reproductive Justice Inside Coalition Community Forum, University of Baltimore School of Law, Baltimore, MD, February 5, 2018.
- Lecturer, Introduction to Feminism Legal Theory, Special Topics in Applied Feminism, University of Baltimore School of Law, Baltimore, MD, January 22, 2018 (with Prof. Michele Gilman).
- Presenter, Maryland County Jail Reproductive Justice Policies, Reproductive Justice Inside Community Forum, Silver Spring Civic Center, Silver Spring, MD, January 9, 2018.
- Moderator, Reproductive Justice Behind Bars: An Intimate Look at Prenatal, Abortion, Labor & Delivery, and Postpartum Care Inside Correctional Facilities, University of Baltimore School of Law, Baltimore, MD, September 18, 2017.
- Presenter, Discussant, Langenberg Lecture with Senator Barbara Mikulski: “Civic Education, Civic Engagement, and Civic Responsibility: Foundations of a Democratic Society,” University of Maryland - Baltimore, Baltimore, MD, April 10, 2017.
- Co-Chair, 10th Annual Feminist Legal Theory Conference, Center on Applied Feminism, University of Baltimore School of Law, Baltimore, MD, March 30-31, 2017.
- Presenter, Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Opinions of the United States, 10th Annual Feminist Legal Theory Conference, University of Baltimore School of Law, Baltimore, MD, March 30, 2017.
- Co-Presenter with Dr. Tara Richards, Towards Empowerment: Measuring the Role of Lethality Assessments, Baltimore, Maryland, February 3, 2017.
- Presenter, Gender and LGBTQ Rights in a Trump Presidency, The Law According to Trump: How the New President May Seek to Transform the Law, University of Baltimore School of Law, January 19, 2017.
- Presenter, Towards Empowerment: Measuring the Role of Lethality Assessments (co-authored with Dr. Tara Richards), The U.S. Feminist Judgments Project: Rewriting the Law, Writing the Future Conference, University of Akron School of Law, October 20-21, 2016.
- Presenter, Towards Empowerment: Measuring the Role of Lethality Assessments (co-authored with Dr. Tara Richards), University of Baltimore School of Law, September 1, 2016.
- Presenter, Applied Feminism Today, Center on Applied Feminism’s Ninth Annual Feminist Legal Theory Conference, University of Baltimore School of Law, Baltimore, MD, March 4, 2016.
- Presenter, Scholarly Collaboration Roundtable, Faculty Research and Development Session, University of Baltimore School of Law, Baltimore, MD, October 8, 2015.
- Presenter, Street Harassment and Critical Legal Theory, Street Harassment: Know Your Rights, University of Baltimore School of Law, Baltimore, MD, October 6, 2015.
- Presenter, Lawyering Through Stories, Clinical Law Review Writers Workshop, NYU Law School, NYC, NY, September 26, 2015.
- Presenter, Lawyering Through Stories, Faculty Research and Development, University of Baltimore School of Law, Baltimore, MD, September 3, 2015.
- Presenter, #BlackLivesMatter, Domestic Violence, and Security, Feminist Legal Approaches to Baltimore’s Future, ParityFest, University of Baltimore School of Law, Baltimore, MD, July 12, 2015.
- Presenter, Commentary on Oncale v. Sundowner Indus., Inc., Feminist Judgments Roundtable, Law and Society Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, May 29, 2015.
- Presenter, Roundtable on Increasing Author Diversity in Legal Scholarship: Individual and Institutional Strategies, University of Maryland Carey School of Law, Baltimore, MD, April 10, 2015.
- Presenter, Domestic Violence and Poverty, Impact of Poverty on Judicial Decision Making, Judicial Institute, Annapolis, MD, March 31, 2015.
- Presenter, Laboring On: A History of Women’s Employment Issues and the Supreme Court, Columbus School of Law, The Catholic University of America, Washington DC, March 26, 2015.
- Co-Chair, Applied Feminism and Work, Center on Applied Feminism’s Eighth Annual Feminist Legal Theory Conference, University of Baltimore School of Law, Baltimore, MD, March 6, 2015.
- Moderator, Title IX and Campus Sexual Assault, Students Supporting the Women’s Law Center Symposium, University of Baltimore School of Law, Baltimore, MD, February 24, 2015.
- Convener, Anti-Trafficking Advocacy: Building a Human Rights Network, University of Baltimore School of Law, Baltimore, MD, February 13, 2015.