Margaret E. Johnson
Assistant Professor of Law & Co-Director, Center on Applied Feminism
B.A., Dartmouth College, 1987
J.D., cum laude, order of the coif, University of Wisconsin Law School, 1993
Expertise
- Family Law
- Property
- Domestic Violence
- Feminist Legal Theory
- Clinical Legal Theory
Website: Center on Applied Feminism
Contact Information
Telephone: (410) 837-5779, Family Law Clinic: (410) 837-5706
Room Number: CM 302
E-mail
Administrative Assistant: Shannon Dawkins, (410) 837-5752, (on campus x5752), WC 300, 5 West Chase
Courses Taught
- Property Syllabus Spring 2010
- Property First Assignment Spring 2010
The reading assignment for the first class concerns the acquisition of property by “discovery” and capture: pp. 1-13; 16 (note 6) – 23; 33-35 notes 1-3; 14-16 notes 4-5; bottom of 35 - bottom of 41 of the Dukeminier casebook, as noted on the syllabus. In addition, please read the handout posted on TWEN regarding how to brief a case and prepare for class.
Margaret E. Johnson joined the faculty in 2006. Her scholarship interests are sexual harassment and domestic violence law as well as clinical legal theory and feminist legal theory. Prior to joining the faculty, Professor Johnson was the director of the Domestic Violence Clinic at the Washington College of Law, American University, from 2002 to 2006. In addition to teaching the clinic, she taught Property and Sex-Based Discrimination. From 1995 to 2002, Professor Johnson represented employees in employment discrimination litigation, with a special focus on sexual harassment law. She began her practice as a Georgetown Women's Law and Public Policy Fellow serving as a staff attorney at the Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs. She continued to concentrate on sexual harassment and other employment discrimination litigation at the Washington, D.C., firms of Terris, Pravlik & Wagner and Kalijarvi, Chuzi & Newman. Prior to practicing, she clerked for the Honorable Hector M. Laffitte of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico.
Professor Johnson is a member of the bars of the State of Maryland, the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Selected Publications
SSRN Author Page for Margaret Johnson
Books/Forthcoming
MICPEL, Domestic Violence Cases: Skills and Strategies (forthcoming 2008) (contributing author).
Articles and Essays
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).
Recent Conferences
Second Annual Feminist Legal Theory Conference
Feminist Legal Theory & Feminisms Conference
Having It Our Way: Women in Maryland's Workplace Circa 2027 (Podcast available under the Law Alumni link, please open with Internet Explorer 7 or Mozilla Foxfire)