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Julie D. Lawton

  • jlawton1@depaul.edu
  • Associate Dean for Experiential Learning; Clinical Professor of Law; Director, Business Law Clinic
  • Clinical; Full-time
  • (312) 362-5136
  • 1054 O'Malley Place​

Julie D. Lawton joined DePaul in 2011. She previously taught in the Housing & Community Development Clinic at Georgetown University Law Center. She received her JD, cum laude, from Howard University, LLM from Georgetown and BS in Finance, magna cum laude, from Florida A&M University. She also worked as an attorney and development consultant in residential real estate development in Washington, D.C., including owning a real estate development company. Prior to her career in real estate, she practiced for a number of years in the Financial Services group at Morrison & Foerster in Washington, D.C. providing legal counsel on consumer credit issues to large banks and credit card issuers. Prior to her legal career, she worked as a financial analyst in the Commercial Banking group at Bank of America in Atlanta, GA.

Education

B.S., Florida A&M University (magna cum laude); J.D., Howard University (cum laude); LL.M., Georgetown University

Areas of Expertise

  • Real Estate
  • Affordable Housing
  • Consumer Law
  • Clinical Legal Education

Courses Taught

  • Accounting for Lawyers
  • Business Fundamentals for Lawyers
  • Business Law Clinic
  • Housing & Community Development Legal Clinic
  • Real Estate Transactions

Publications

  • Articles
  • Books
  • Book Reviews
  • Miscellaneous

Articles

2017 Teaching Social Justice in Law Schools: Whose Morality Is It?, 50 Ind. L. Rev. 813 (2017). string;#Click Here
2016 Am I My Client? Revisited: The Role of Race in Intra-Race Legal Representation 22 Mich. J. of Race and Law 13 (2016) (lead article). string;#Click Here
2016 Warsaw Rebuilt: Incorporating Affordable Housing by Design, 63 Studia Luridica 115 (2016) (University of Warsaw law review). string;#Click Here
2016 The Imposition of Social Justice Morality in Legal Education, 4 Ind. J.L. & Soc. Equality 57 (2016) (Symposium: Living Without in America). string;#Click Here
2015 Preserving Homeownership Through the Power of the Collective: Lessons for Barcelona, 297 Revista de Derecho Urbanístico y Medio Ambiente 31 (2015). string;#Click Here
2015 Who Is My Client? Client Centered Lawyering with Multiple Clients, 22 Clinical L. Rev. 145 (2015). string;#Click Here
2015 Unraveling the Legal Hybrid of Housing Cooperatives, 83 UMKC L. Rev. 117 (2015), excerpt reprinted in 2015 COOPERATIVE HOUSING J. 5 (2015). string;#Click Here
2013 Limited Equity Cooperatives: The Non-Economic Value of Homeownership, 43 Wash. U. J.L. & Pol'y 187 (2013) reprinted in 23-3&4 J. Aff. Hous. & Comm. Dev. L. 393 (2015). string;#Click Here
2012 Tenant Purchase as a Means of Creating and Preserving Affordable Homeownership, 20 Geo. J. on Poverty L. & Pol'y 55 (2012). string;#Click Here

Books

2018 Business Basics for Law Students: Case Studies and Problem Sets (Work in Progress) string;#
2018 With Robin P. Malloy and James C. Smith, Real Estate Transactions: Problems, Cases and Materials (6th ed. forthcoming). string;#

Book Reviews

2013 Book Review, 21 J. Aff. Hous. & Comm. Dev. L. 281 (2013) (reviewing Bruce Kingma, ed., Academic Entrepreneurship and Community Engagement: Scholarship in Action and the Syracuse Miracle (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011)) string;#Click Here

Miscellaneous

2019 Invited Presenter, AALS Annual Meeting, Section on Transactional Law and Skills, Transactional Law and Finance: Challenges and Opportunities for Teaching and Research Panel (forthcoming). string;#
2018 Moderator, DePaul University College of Law, Business and Commercial Law Journal Annual Symposium, Lending and Litigating: A Look into Chicago’s Commercial Real Estate Market string;#
2017 Invited Presenter, University of Michigan, Michigan Journal of Race and Law Speaker Series, “Am I My Client? Revisited: The Role of Race in Intra-Race Legal Representation”. string;#
2016 Invited Presenter, New York Law School Clinical Theory Workshop, “Am I My Client Revisited: The Role Confusion of an African American Lawyer to African American Clients”. string;#
2016 Jacob Gershman, Law Schools Are ‘Indoctrinating Students with a Social Justice Morality,’ Says Professor, Wall. St. J. L. Blog (Apr 13, 2016, 5:08 pm). Discussing Julie Lawton, The Imposition of Social Justice Morality in Legal Education, 4 Ind. J.L. & Soc. Equality 57 (2016). string;#Click Here
2016 Presenter, Southern California Clinical Scholarship Workshop, UC Irvine, “Am I My Client? Revisited: The Role of Race in Intra-Race Legal Representation”. string;#
2016 Presenter, AALS Conference on Clinical Legal Education, “The Personal Identities of Housing Cooperatives”. string;#
2016 Presenter, Univ. of Iowa - The Lutie Lytle Black Women Law Faculty Writing Workshop, “Teaching Social Justice in Law School: Whose Morality Is It?”. string;#
2015 Presenter, Symposium, Indiana Journal of Law and Social Equality “Social Justice Indoctrination in Law Schools” (forthcoming). string;#
2015 Presenter, AALS Conference on Clinical Legal Education, The Attempted Indoctrination of Social Justice Morality in Legal Education. string;#
2014 Presenter, AALS Conference on Clinical Legal Education “Role Confusion of a Lawyer Revisited”. string;#
2013 Presenter, Northeast People of Color Conference “Unraveling the Legal Hybrid of Housing Cooperatives”. string;#
2013 Plenary Panelist, AALS Clinical Director’s Conference “Clinic Staffing Structures: Clinical Teaching Fellowships". string;#
2013 Presenter, AALS Conference on Clinical Legal Education “Limited Equity Cooperatives: The Non-Economic Value of Homeownership”. string;#
2013 Presenter, Chicago Junior Faculty Workshop “Limited Equity Cooperatives: The Non-Economic Value of Homeownership”. string;#
2012 Collaboration Between Clinical and Doctrinal Professors for Teaching First-Year Law Students, 20 The L. Tchr. 20 (2012). string;#Click Here
2012 Presenter, Southwest Junior Clinicians Conference “Maximizing Clinical Fellowships”. string;#
2012 Working Group Facilitator, 2012 AALS Conference on Clinical Legal Education. string;#
2012 Presenter, NYU Clinical Writer’s Workshop “Limited Equity Cooperatives: The Non-Economic Value of Homeownership”. string;#
2012 Presenter, DePaul SBA Diversity Week Panelist “Social and Political Challenges Facing Communities of Color in Affordable Housing”. string;#
2012 Essay, “Collaboration Between Clinical and Doctrinal Professors for Teaching First Year Law Students,” 20 The L. Tchr. 20 (2012). string;#
2011 Presenter, Annual Transactional Clinicians’ Conference “Specialized Clinics”. string;#
2010 Presenter, Association for Law, Property and Society “Tenant Purchase as a Means of Creating and Preserving Affordable Homeownership”. string;#
2007 Featured Speaker, Howard University School of Law Fair Housing Clinic Community Presentation. string;#
2007 Plenary Panelist, Howard University School of Law’s Third Annual “Fair Housing Law for the People”. string;#
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