Marcia Johnson
Professor of Law

Education:

B.S., 1974; University Of Florida
J.D., 1976; University Of Florida

Phone: (713) 313-1027

Fax: (713) 313-1049

Email: Marcia Johnson

Biographical information

Professor, Texas Southern University-Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, Texas, 1998-Present
Interim Dean, Texas Southern University-Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, Texas, 1999
Interim Associate Dean, Texas Southern University-Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, Texas, 1998
Associate Professor of Law, Texas Southern University-Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, Texas, 1991-1998

Affiliations

United States Court of Appeals, fifth Circuit Federal Court for Southern District of Texas
State Bar of Texas

Research And Teaching Interests

Texas Practice
Housing Law Seminar
Business Associations
Professional Responsibility
Established the Earl Carl Institute for Legal and Social Policy, Inc.
General Counsel, Houston Housing Authority, Houston, Texas, 1984-1991
Managing Partner-Spurling And Johnson, Houston, Texas, 1980-1984
Assistant City Attorney, City of Houston, Houston, Texas, 1978-1980

Publications

• Addressing Housing Needs in the Post-Katrina Gulf Coast, 31 T. Marshall L. Rev. 327, 2006 Hurricane Katrina Symposium
• Abstinence Plus Education Curriculum in Public Schools, a project of the Earl Carl Institute, position paper, www.earlcarl.org (2005)
• The Effect of Educating Prisoners, Vol 7 Journal of Law and Social Change at the University of Pennsylvania 1 (2003) with JaPaula Kemp
• The Community Reinvestment Act: Expanding Access, 12-Fall Kan.J.L. & Pub. Pol’y (2002) with JaPaula Kemp and Anh Nguyen
• Genetic technology And Its Impact on Culpability For Criminal Actions, 46-1 Cleveland State Law Review (1999)
• Texas Revised Juvenile Justice And Education Codes: Not all Change Is Good, 19 Journal of Juvenile Law 1 (1998)
• Juvenile Justice, 17 Whittier Law Review 713 (1996)
• The Systematic Denial of the Right To Vote To America's Minorities, 11 Harvard Blackletter Law Journal 61 (1994)
• Converting Walls to Bridges: A review of the Proposed Zoning Ordinance for the City of Houston, 18 Thurgood Marshall School of Law Review 231 (1993)