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faculty
Lisa Owens, PhD
Assistant Professor
Law School
Contact
508-985-1198
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UMass School of Law 220
Education
| Columbia University | PhD |
| Boston College | JD |
| Boston University | LLM |
| Birmingham-Southern College | BA |
Teaching
- Property
- Remedies
- Law & Social Change
Teaching
Programs
Programs
Teaching
Courses
This course introduces real and personal property, including the nature of property and the rights and duties of owners and possessors. Topics include present and future interests, landlord-tenant agreements, co-tenancies, easements, covenants and servitudes, title determination and assurance, contracts of sale, deeds, mortgages, and land use regulation.
This course introduces real and personal property, including the nature of property and the rights and duties of owners and possessors. Topics include present and future interests, landlord-tenant agreements, co-tenancies, easements, covenants and servitudes, title determination and assurance, contracts of sale, deeds, mortgages, and land use regulation.
A continuation of LAW 530, Property I
Examines the basic forms of business organizations, including the law of sole proprietorships, partnerships, and corporations. Topics include the authority and responsibility of partners and the relationship between corporate directors, officers, shareholders, and creditors. The course will also cover the principles of agency law.
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.