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Lisa Owens

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Lisa Owens, PhD

Assistant Professor

Law School

Contact

508-985-1198

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UMass School of Law 220

Education

Columbia UniversityPhD
Boston CollegeJD
Boston UniversityLLM
Birmingham-Southern CollegeBA

Teaching

  • Property
  • Remedies
  • Law & Social Change

Teaching

Programs

Teaching

Courses

A continuation of LAW 530, Property I

A study of the relationship between law, lawyers, courts, and social change. The course will focus on methods for effecting social change through the courts and the dilemmas that define them. Additionally, it will consider case studies in social change related to contemporary American society and law. Students will write a 20-page research paper related to law and social change.

Research

Research interests

  • Housing
  • Law & Social Change
  • Inequality
  • Research Methodology
  • Teaching Methodology

Dr. Lisa Lucile Owens is a scholar of law and society, with research primarily focused on social inequality, the function of law in society, housing inequality, and research and teaching methodology. 

Since Fall 2022, Owens has served as an assistant professor of law at The University of Massachusetts School of Law. She has earned law degrees from Boston College Law School (JD) and Boston University School of Law (LLM). Owens earned her PhD in Sociology from Columbia University in 2020, after which she served in that department as a full-time lecturer in the Department of Sociology.

Owens' scholarly work has previously been published in journals such as Sociological Methodology, Gender and Society, The Stanford University Law and Policy Review, Critical Sociology, TRAILS, Frontiers in Sociology, and The Alabama Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Law Review.

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