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Houh
Emily Ming-Sue Houh

Professor of Law
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e: emily.houh@uc.edu

Areas of Interest
Contracts
Commercial Law
Critical Race Theory
Feminist Legal Theory

Education
BA, Brown University
JD, University of Michigan

A graduate of Brown University, Professor Houh earned her J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School, where she was a founding member and articles editor of the Michigan Journal of Race & Law. After law school, Professor Houh served as a law clerk to the Honorable Anna Diggs Taylor, U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan. She also practiced law as a staff attorney with the Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago and as a litigation associate at Miller, Canfield, Paddock & Stone, PLC, in Detroit, Michigan.

Professor Houh teaches contracts, commercial law, and critical race theory, and in 2006, she won the Goldman Price for Teaching Excellence. Her scholarship focuses on contract law and critical race theory and she is a frequent speaker on these topics at national conferences and symposia. Her articles and essays have appeared in such journals as the Cornell Law Review, University of Pittsburgh Law Review, Utah Law Review, and U.C. Davis Law Review.

Currently, Professor Houh serves on the Board of Governors and as Secretary to the Society of American Law Teachers. She is also the Chair-Elect of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Law and the Humanities.

Download a copy of Professor Houh's Curriculum Vitae (pdf).

Publications

Towards Praxis, 39 U.C. DAVIS L. REV.905 (symposium issue).

Still(,) at the Margins, 40 LAW & SOC'Y REV. __ (forthcoming 2005)(book review).

Critical Race Realism: Re-Claiming the Antidiscrimination Principle through the Doctrine of Good Faith in Contract Law, 66 U. PITT. L. REV. 455 (2005).

The Doctrine of Good Faith in Contract Law: A (Nearly) Empty Vessel?, 2005 UTAH L. REV. 1 (2005).

Critical Interventions: Toward an Expansive Equality Approach to the Doctrine of Good Faith and Fair Dealing in Contract Law, 88 CORNELL L. REV. 1025 (2003).

Living ?Off-Stage?: The Semiotic Potential of Narrative in Paula Johnson's Inner Lives: Voices of African American Women in Prison, 16 INT'L J. FOR THE SEMIOTICS OF LAW 317 (book review) (2003).