Margaret E. Johnson

Margaret E. Johnson is a Professor of Law, Director of the Bronfein Family Law Clinic, and Co-Director of the Center on Applied Feminism at the University of Baltimore School of Law. Her scholarship focuses on issues relating to domestic violence, property, feminist legal theory and clinical legal education. She is co-author of 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 teaches the Bronfein Family Law Clinic, where students represent clients in family-related legal issues 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 is a former Co-President of the Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA). She is the former Chair of the Planning Committee, American Association of Law Schools Section on Clinical Legal Education 2014 Conference, and served again on the Planning Committee for the 2016 Conference. She is a Member of the Advisory Panel for the Feminist Judgments book series. She is a former board member of the Women’s Law Center of Maryland. Johnson was named one of the Top 25 Women Professors in Maryland in 2013 and is the recipient of a 2012 USM Board of Regents' Faculty Award. She received the 2017 UB Law Outstanding Teaching by a Full-Time Faculty Member award. She was selected as Professor of the Year by the UB Women's Bar Association in 2008 and 2011. Johnson is a member of the bars of the State of Maryland and the District of Columbia.