College of Law

Courses

• Contracts
• Critical Race Theory
• Payment Systems
• Sales

Awards

• 2012 Goldman Prize for Excellence in Teaching
• 2006 Goldman Prize for Excellence in Teaching

October 2011

The Center for Race, Gender, and Social Justice, which Emily, Kristin Kalsem, and Verna Williams direct, co-sponsored with the Urban Morgan Institute the Butler Human Rights Lecture, which was given by Professor Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (2011).

The Center for Race, Gender, and Social Justice hosted Jacqueline A. Berrien, Chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, at its fall luncheon event on October 28 at the Netherland Hilton in downtown Cincinnati.  Read more in Sherry English, EEOC Chair Jacqueline Berrien to Speak on Employment Opportunities in the 21st Century, UC News, October 20, 2011.

Summer 2011

In June 2011, Emily traveled to San Francisco to participate in the 2011 Law and Society Association (LSA) Annual Meeting, where she served on and chaired several panels.  Additionally, Emily served on LSA’s 2011 Annual Meeting Program Committee.

Also in June 2011, Emily attended the Association of American Law Schools mid-year workshop, “Women Rethinking Equality,” in Washington, DC. 

Emily was invited over the summer to serve on the United Way of Greater Cincinnati’s Poverty Task Force.

In August, Emily and colleague Kristin Kalsem presented to the law faculty, “A ‘Law and Action Research’ Study of Fringe Banking: From the Ground Up,” which they are co-authoring, as part of the College’s Summer 2011 Faculty Workshop series.  .

Emily’s Tribute to Dores McCree, 16 Mich. J. Race & L. 151 (2011), is now in print.

April 2011

The Center for Race, Gender, and Social Justice (RGSJ Center), which Emily directs with Professors Kristin Kalsem and Verna Williams, presented several programs in April:

• ·  A panel discussion, co-sponsored with APALSA, BLSA, and LLSA, titled The UC Diversity Plan Task Force: Mission, Research, and Findings, featuring Terry Kershaw, Head of UC’s Department of Africana Studies; and Debra Merchant, Director, Academic Excellence and Support Services; and moderated by Joel Chanvisanuruk, Director of Academic Success for the College of Law’s Center for Professional Development.  The panelists, of UC’s Diversity Task Force, discussed UC’s commitment to excellence is a diverse community of students, scholars, and staff and how it is measuring up to its ambitious vision, most recently articulated in UC2019.  Specifically, they addressed the Task Force’s mission, research, and findings regarding students, faculty, staff, and environment, as well proposed initiatives to increase diversity at UC.

• ·  A presentation titled, Sexual Rights and the Global Governance of Intimacy, featuring Amy Lind, Mary Ellen Heintz Associate Professor, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.  Dr. Lind’s presentation described her ongoing work on struggles for sexual rights and gender justice in global perspective, with an emphasis on feminist and sexual rights movements in the global South.

The Freedom Center Journal, of which Emily is faculty advisor, published a special edition, Illustrated Truth:  Expressions of Wrongful Conviction, which is the first-ever compilation of artwork, poetry, and other writings by the wrongfully convicted.  The special edition is the result of a collaboration between the FCJ, OIP, and fifth-year design students at UC DAAP (College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning); it commemorated the 2011 Innocence Network Conference: An International Exploration of Wrongful Conviction, hosted and organized by the OIP and held at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in downtown Cincinnati.  The special edition is available for sale on Amazon.com.

March 2011

Emily’s article, Towards Praxis, 39 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 905 (2006), was cited in Trina Jones, Intra-Group Preferencing: Proving Skin Color And Identity Performance Discrimination, 34 N.Y.U. Rev. L. & Soc. Change 657 (2010).

The Center for Race, Gender, and Social Justice (RGSJ Center), which Emily directs with Professors Kristin Kalsem and Verna Williams, presented several programs in March:

• The 2011 Judge-in-Residence lecture by the Honorable Wilhelmina Wright, “Lawyers as Public Servants: Facing Today’s Challenges with Ingenuity Inspired by a Commitment to Service” - co-sponsored with the Judge-in-Residence program, run by Professor Marianna Bettman;
• A panel discussion titled, “Return to the Model Minority Myth,” featuring College alumnae Andrea Yang ‘08, Jenn Dye ’10, and Professor Emily Houh, and moderated by Professor Josh Chambers-Letson of the English and Comparative Literature Department – co-sponsored with the College’s APALSA chapter;
• As part of the RGSJ Center’s “Coffee Corner” series, a presentation by N. Jeremi Duru, a professor at Temple University’s Beasley School of Law, on his new book Advancing the Ball: Race, Reformation, and the Quest for Equal Coaching Opportunity in the NFL (2011); and
• A Coffee Corner presentation by Adrian Parr, a professor in UC’s Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and its School of Architecture and Interior Design at DAAP, on “Sustainability Movements: The Intersection of Environmental and Social Justice.”

February 2011

The College’s Center for Race, Gender, and Social Justice—which Emily directs with Kristin Kalsem and Verna Williams—sponsored a “Coffee Corner” discussion with Wayne McKenzie, Director of the Prosecution and Justice Project with the Vera Institute of Justice (based in New York). The Center also sponsored a panel discussion on the causes, consequences, and cures of racial and ethnic disproportionality in conviction and incarceration rates, featuring Mr. McKenzie, Steve Tolbert (Hamilton County Prosecutor’s Office), and Janaya Trotter (Ritter & Randolph, LLC), and moderated by Janet Moore, Visiting Assistant Professor at the College of Law.

As part of the University’s ReGeneration speaker-series, which is co-sponsored by the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality, Emily introduced renown political philosopher Nancy Fraser, who is the Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor of Political and Social Science at The New School in New York City; Professor Fraser delivered a talk titled, “The Market in Nature.”

Emily presented a work-in-progress, “A Redemptive Theory of Contract,” at the Sixth Annual International Conference on Contracts at Stetson University College of Law in Gulfport, Florida, as well as at Chicago-Kent College of Law, one of the College’s partners in its ongoing faculty exchange workshop program.

Emily moderated a discussion of an episode of the HBO series, The Wire, during a Black Law Students Association movie night.

January 2011

The College of Law’s Center for Race, Gender, and Social Justice—which Emily co-directs with Kristin Kalsem and Verna Williams—hosted the first in a series of new “Coffee Corner” discussion sessions, to which a diverse range of local and national activists, leaders, and authors have been invited to meet and talk informally with College of Law students about their social justice work. At the first Coffee Corner in January, Barb Rinto and Kim Fulbright, Director and Program Coordinator, respectively, of the University of Cincinnati’s Women’s Center, spoke to students and community members about the work they’ve been doing since 1978 to “meet the needs and interests of UC’s women and LGBTQ students, staff and faculty.” Several more Coffee Corner sessions have been planned and are in the works for the remainder of the Spring 2011 term.

November 2010

Emily participated in a ReGeneration program, where she introduced speaker Margaret Swallow, a co-founder of the International Women’s Coffee Alliance.  ReGeneration is a campus-wide speaker series on climate change and sustainability in context, and is sponsored by the UC faculty Development Council and supported by the UC Department of Women’s Gender, and Sexuality Studies (with which UC Law has a joint degree MA/JD program), DAAP Cares, the UC Environmental Studies Program, and UC Sustainability.

Emily was elected to the Board of Directors of Harmony Garden, a Cincinnati-based non-profit organization whose mission is to “build community partnerships to grow healthy girls through research, education, outreach and advocacy.”

October 2010

The College’s new Center for Race, Gender, and Social Justice, of which Emily is co-director (along with Kristin Kalsem and Verna Williams), celebrated its official launch with a luncheon event in downtown Cincinnati, where Tina Tchen, Executive Director of the White House Council on Women and Girls and Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, delivered keynote remarks to over 200 attendees.

Emily attended the annual Association of American Law Schools Faculty Recruitment Conference in Washington, D.C.

September 2010

Emily’s article, Critical Interventions: Toward an Expansive Equality Approach to the Doctrine of Good Faith in Contract Law, 88 Cornell L. Rev. 1025 (2003), was cited in Stephen S. Ashley, Bad Faith Actions: Liability & Damages (West, 2d ed. 2010).

Summer 2010

Several of Emily’s articles were cited:

• Cracking the Egg: Which Came First—Stigma or Affirmative Action?, 96 Cal. L. Rev. 1299 (2008) (with Angela Onwuachi-Willig & Mary Campbell), in Deirdre M. Bowen, Brilliant Disguise: an Empirical Analysis of a Social Experiment Banning Affirmative Action, 85 Ind. L.J. 1197 (2010), and andré douglas pond cummings, The Associated Dangers of “Brilliant Disguises,” Color-blind Constitutionalism, and Postracial Rhetoric, 85 Ind. L.J. 1277 (2010);
• Critical Interventions: Toward an Expansive Equality Approach to the Doctrine of Good Faith in Contract Law, 88 Cornell L. Rev. 1025 (2003), in Angela P. Harris, Theorizing Class, Gender, and the Law: Three Approaches, 72 Law & Contemp. Probs. 37 (2010); and
• Still(,) at the Margins, 40 Law & Soc'y Rev. 481 (2006), in Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Complimentary Discrimination and Complementary Discrimination in Faculty Hiring, 87 Wash. U. L. Rev. 763 (2010).

In May, Emily attended a planning meeting in Chicago of the Law and Society Association (LSA) 2011 Program Committee, on which she serves./p>

In July, Emily, along with Professor Verna Williams, met with a delegation of business women from Kyrgyzstan to discuss issues relating to women in the legal and business professions. The delegation visited the College as part of their participation in the Open World Program of the Greater Cincinnati World Affairs Council.

Emily began serving as Associate Dean of Faculty at UC Law on July 1.

June 2010

Emily presented Action Research and Legal Scholarship on May 3, 2010 at Drexel as part of its Faculty Workshop Series. Her article, Towards Praxis, 39 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 905 (2006), was cited in Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Another Hair Piece: Exploring New Strands of Analysis under Title VII, 98 Geo.

May 2010

Emily’s article, Critical Race Realism: Re-Claiming the Antidiscrimination Principle Through the Doctrine of Good Faith in Contract Law, 66 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 455 (2005), was cited in Holning Lau, Identity Scripts & Democratic Deliberation, 94 Minn. L. Rev. 897 (2010).

April 2010

Emily, Kristin Kalsem, and Verna Williams spoke at UCLA on a panel on Intersectionality in Action at the 4th Annual Critical Race Studies Symposium on Intersectionality.

October 2009

Two of Emily’s articles were cited:

• Critical Interventions: Toward an Expansive Equality Approach to the Doctrine of Good Faith in Contract Law, 88 Cornell L. Rev. 1025 (2003), in Stephen S. Ashley, Bad Faith Actions: Liability & Damages (West, 2d ed. 2009).
• Towards Praxis, 39 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 905 (2006), in Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Honoring our Past, Charting our Future: Introduction: Celebrating Critical Race Theory at 20, 94 Iowa L. Rev. 1497 (2009).

Summer 2009

Emily presented Racial Retrenchment and the Thirteenth Amendment as part of the 13th Annual UC Faculty Summer Scholarship Series. Her article, The Doctrine of Good Faith in Contract Law: A (Nearly) Empty Vessel?, 2005 Utah L. Rev. 1 (2005), was cited in Larry A. DiMatteo, Policing Limited Liability Companies under Contract Law, 46 Am. Bus. L.J. 279 (2009).

May 2009

Emily presented Contracting Identities: Toward an Antisubordination Theory of Contract Law at the Critical Race Theory Workshop at UCLA. Her article, Cracking the Egg: Which Came First–Stigma or Affirmative Action?, 96 Cal. L. Rev. 1299 (with Angela Onwuachi-Willig & Mary Campbell), was cited in Carla D. Pratt, Way to Represent: The Role of Black Lawyers in Contemporary American Democracy, 77 Fordham L. Rev. 1409 (2009).

March 2009

Emily published Cracking the Egg: Which Came First — Stigma or Affirmative Action?, 96 Cal. L. Rev. 1299 (with Angela Onwuachi-Willig (Iowa) & Mary Campbell (Iowa)). Several of her articles were cited:

• Critical Interventions: Toward an Expansive Equality Approach to the Doctrine of Good Faith in Contract Law, 88 Cornell L. Rev. 1025 (2003), in Keith Aoki & Kevin R. Johnson, Latinos and Latinas at the Epicenter of Contemporary Legal Discourses: Latinos and Latinas in the Legal Academy: An Assessment of LatCrit Theory Ten Years After, 83 Ind. L.J. 1151 (2008).
• Critical Race Realism: Re-Claiming the Antidiscrimination Principle Through the Doctrine of Good Faith in Contract Law, 66 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 455 (2005), in Gregory Scott Parks, Toward a Critical Race Realism, 17 Cornell J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 683 (2008); and Gregory S. Parks & Shayne E. Jones, “Nigger”: A Critical Race Realist Analysis of the N-Word within Hate Crimes Law, 98 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 1305 (2008).
• Towards Praxis, 39 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 905 (2006), in Angela Onwuachi-Willig & Jacob Willig-Onwuachi, A House Divided: The Invisibility of the Multiracial Family, 44 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 231 (2009); and Nancy E. Dowd, Masculinities and Feminist Legal Theory, 23 Wis. J.L. Gender & Soc'y 201 (2008).

February 2009

Two of Emily’s articles were cited:

• Critical Interventions: Toward an Expansive Equality Approach to the Doctrine of Good Faith in Contract Law, 88 Cornell L. Rev. 1025 (2003), in Stephen S. Ashley, Bad Faith Actions Liability & Damages (West, 2nd ed., 2008).
• The Doctrine of Good Faith in Contract Law: A (Nearly) Empty Vessel?, 2005 Utah L. Rev. 1 (2005), in Touch and Concern, the Restatement (Third) of Property: Servitudes, and a Proposal, 122 Harv. L. Rev. 938 (2009).

January 2009

Emily’s article, Critical Interventions: Toward an Expansive Equality Approach to the Doctrine of Good Faith in Contract Law, 88 Cornell L. Rev. 1025 (2003), was cited in Keith Aoki, An Assessment of LatCrit Theory Ten Years After, 83 Ind. L.J. 1151 (2008).

December 2008

Emily and her husband Andrew welcomed their second child into their family — Rowan was born on October 30.

November 2008

The Freedom Center Journal, which is advised by Emily, Kristin Kalsem and Verna Williams, held a discussion of Pamela Bridgewater's article, Connectedness and Closeted Questions: The Use of History in Developing Feminist Legal Theory, dealing with reproductive rights and the intersection of race, class, and gender.

Emily published Cracking the Egg: Which Came First--stigma or Affirmative Action?, 96 Cal. L. Rev. 1299 (2008) (with Angela Onwuachi-Willig & Mary Campbell). The article was discussed in an article in the Iowa Press-Citizen. (Her co-authors Angela Onwuachi-Willig and Mary Campbell are on the University of Iowa faculty).

October 2008

Emily's article, Critical Interventions: Toward an Expansive Equality Approach to the Doctrine of Good Faith in Contract Law, 88 Cornell L. Rev. 1025 (2003), was cited in Stephen S. Ashley, Bad Faith Actions Liability & Damages (Thomson-West, 2nd ed., 2008 Supp.).

Summer 2008

Emily Houh was named Gustavus Henry Wald Professor of the Law and Contracts.

Emily presented Contracting Identities as part of the 12th Annual UC Faculty Summer Scholarship Series.

Two of Emily's articles were cited:

• The Doctrine of Good Faith in Contract Law: A (Nearly) Empty Vessel?, 2005 Utah L. Rev. 1 (2005), in Mariana Pargendler, Modes of Gap Filling: Good Faith and Fiduciary Duties, 82 Tul. L. Rev. 1315 (2008).
• Towards Praxis, 39 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 905 (2006), in Natasha T. Martin, Immunity for Hire: How the Same-actor Doctrine Sustains Discrimination in the Contemporary Workplace, 40 Conn. L. Rev. 1117 (2008).

May 2008

Two of Emily's articles were cited:

• The Doctrine of Good Faith in Contract Law: A (Nearly) Empty Vessel?, 2005 Utah L. Rev. 1, in Florence Wagman Roisman, The Right to Remain: Common Law Protections for Security of Tenure: An Essay in Honor of John Otis Calmore, 86 N.C. L. Rev. 817 (2008).
• Towards Praxis, 39 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 905 (2006), in Angela P. Harris, From Color Line to Color Chart?: Racism and Colorism in the New Century, 10 Berkeley J. Afr.-Am. L. & Pol'y 52 (2008).

March 2008

Emily participated in a panel discussion on Ending Affirmative Action: The Current Effects of Proposition 209 in California and the Potential Effects of Proposal 2 on Public University Education in Michigan at a conference at Michigan on From Proposition 209 to Proposal 2: Examining the Effects of Anti-Affirmative Action Voter Initiatives. The papers will be published in the Michigan Journal of Race and Law.

February 2008

Emily attended the AALS Annual Meeting in New York City, where she spoke on several panels:

• The Committee on Sections and Annual Meeting Program, Beyond the Program at the Annual Meeting: Other Functions and Roles for AALS Sections.
• Section on Minority Groups, In the Name of Love: What Does Martin Luther King Mean on the 40th Anniversary of His Assassination? (to be published in the NYU Review of Law and Social Change).
• Section on Law and the Humanities, Law and Order: SVU - Sexuality, Videos and You (to be published in the Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal).

November 2007

Emily, Kristin Kalsem, and Verna Williams organized and hosted the inaugural symposium of the Freedom Center Journal, Reconstructions: Historical Consciousness and Critical Transformation. Speakers included:

• Pamela Bridgewater (American)
• Alfred Brophy (Alabama)
• Courtney Cahill (Roger Williams)
• James Campbell (Brown)
• Christine Zuni Cruz (New Mexico)
• Adrienne Davis (North Carolina)
• Katherine Franke (Columbia)
• Angela Harris (UC-Berkeley)
• Kevin Noble Mallard (Syracuse)
• Margaret Montoya (New Mexico)
• Natsu Taylor Saito (Georgia State)

Emily was the discussant for a faculty workshop by Luis Fuentes-Rohwer (Indiana) on Bringing Democracy to Puerto Rico: A Rejoinder, as part of the College's Faculty Colloquia Series.

Two of Emily's articles were cited:

• Critical Interventions: Toward an Expansive Equality Approach to the Doctrine of Good Faith in Contract Law, 88 Cornell L. Rev. 1025 (2003), in Stephen S. Ashley, Bad Faith Actions Liability & Damages (Clark Boardman Callaghan, 2nd ed., 2007 Supp.).
• The Doctrine of Good Faith in Contract Law: A (Nearly) Empty Vessel?, 2005 Utah L. Rev. 1 (2005), in Regulating Contract Formation: Precontractual Reliance, Sunk Costs, and Market Structure, 39 Conn. L. Rev. 1977 (2007).

Summer 2007

Emily presented Stigma and Affirmative Action as part of the 11th Annual UC Faculty Summer Scholarship Series. Two of Emily's articles, Critical Race Realism: Re-Claiming the Antidiscrimination Principle through the Doctrine of Good Faith in Contract Law, 66 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 455 (2005), and Towards Praxis, 39 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 905 (2006), were cited in Mario L. Barnes, But Some of [Them] Are Brave: Identity Performance, the Military, and the Dangers of an Integration Success Story, 14 Duke J. Gender L. & Pol'y 693 (2007); Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Volunteer Discrimination, 40 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 1895 (2007); and Berta Hernandez-Truyol, Angela Harris & Francisco Valdes, Beyond the First Decade: A Forward-looking History of LatCrit Theory, Community and Praxis,17 Berkeley La Raza L.J. 169 (2006).

June 2007

Emily's symposium proposal, From Proposition 209 to Proposal 2: Examining the Effects of Anti-Affirmative Action Voter Initiatives, has been accepted for publication in the California Law Review.

April 2007

Emily presented The Antidiscriminatory Impulse of Contract Law at Iowa and Suffolk.

Two of Emily's articles were cited:

• Toward Praxis, 39 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 905 (2006), in Alfred L. Brophy, Law [Review']s Empire: The Assessment of Law Reviews and Trends in Legal Scholarship, 39 Conn. L. Rev. 101 (2006).
• The Doctrine of Good Faith in Contract Law: A (Nearly) Empty Vessel?, 2005 Utah L. Rev. 1, in Daystar Const. Management, Inc. v. Mitchell, 2006 WL 2053649, *8 (Del.Super. Jul 12, 2006) (NO. CIV.A. 04C-05-175JRS).

February 2007

Emily attended the AALS Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., where she began her term as Chair of the AALS Section on Law and the Humanities.

Emily's article, Critical Race Realism: Re-Claiming the Antidiscrimination Principle Through the Doctrine of Good Faith in Contract Law, 66 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 455 (2005), was cited in N. Jeremi Duru, Fielding a Team for the Fans: The Societal Consequences and Title VII Implications of Race-considered Roster Construction in Professional Sport, 84 Wash. U. L. Rev. 375 (2006).

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