faculty

Margaret Drew

Associate Professor

Law School / Faculty

Curriculum Vitae

Contact

508-985-1126

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UMass School of Law 223

Education

University of Massachusetts Boston

Northeastern University School of Law

Boston University School of Law

LLM Taxation

Teaching

Human Rights
Domestic Violence
Professional Responsibility
Practice

Teaching

Courses

LAW 658: Family Law

A survey of the law of marriage, marital property, marital rights and duties, divorce, separation, annulment; law of parent and child; law of guardian and ward; contract and tort rights and liabilities of infants and married women; domicile and jurisdiction for divorce; and constitutional limitations and requirements.

LAW 708: Human Rights at Home Clinic

The clinic is a one semester experience. Students will serve the needs of local residents and beyond. Clinic work will be varied, permitting the flexibility to address a range of community concerns. Examples of possible projects are serving domestic violence survivors, those who are incarcerated, those with criminal records, transgender individuals seeking name changes, and others whose fundamental needs are unmet. In addition, students may address research and policy needs as they arise. Each semester¿s projects will beannounced at the beginning of registration. There will be a 110-minute weekly class. Individual supervision and additional individual and group instruction are part of the clinic. Depending upon availability, students may repeat the experience as advanced clinic students at the invitation of the professor. Some of the classes may be condensed into a pre-semester boot camp experience. In addition, this course affords students an opportunity for the development of a professional identity. Professional identity focuses on what it means to be a lawyer, and the special obligations lawyers have to their clients and society. The development of professional identity involves an intentional exploration of the values, guiding principles, and well-being practices considered foundational to successful legal practice.

LAW 709: Adv Hum Rights at Home Clinic

Clinical Course: This course is open to students who completed LAW 708. Students enrolling in this course must be pre-approved by the instructor. No more than two students per semester will be accepted into this course.

LAW 731: State Attorney General Clinic

Clinic where students apply to MA Attorney General's Office to work on-site under direct supervision of an Assistant-Attorney General. Students state a preferred field (tax, consumer protection, litigation, etc.) and matched with available attorneys. Students research legal issues, write memoranda, and conduct legal work appropriate to their placement. Seminar is held in person at the law school. Conflict check required.

Research

Research interests

Gender Violence
Trauma and Healing
Feminist Jurisprudence
Ethics

Select publications

See curriculum vitae for more publications

Margaret Drew and Jean Mercer, Co-Editors (2021).
Challenging Parental Alienation
Routledge
Margaret Drew (2020).
Feminist Perspectives on Disaster, Pandemics, and IPV (Book Chapter)
Handbook of Interpersonal Violence and Abuse Across the Lifespan, Springer
Margaret Drew (with Jason Potter and Caitlin Stover) (2020).
Complicated Lives: A Look Into the Experiences of Individuals Living with HIV, Legal Impediments, and Other Social Determinants of Health
Quinnipiac Health Law Journal, 23
Margaret Drew (2019).
Dealing with Disappointing Results
Journal of Family and Intimate Partner Violence, 11 FIPV 1
Margaret Drew (2018).
Truth Seeking: The Lenahan Case and the Search for a Human Rights Remedy
St. Louis University Law Journal, Vol 62 No. 4

Professional background

Prior to entering academia full-time in 2005, Professor Drew practiced law in Massachusetts for twenty-five years. She represented clients in the District, Probate and Family and Appellate Courts of Massachusetts. Professor Drew’s practice focused on family, probate and residential real estate. She handled numerous appeals in family law and probate matters.

Professor Drew is a member of several bar associations including the American Bar Association, having served with its Commission of Domestic and Sexual Violence since its founding. Professor Drew is a past chair of the Commission. from whom she recently received a 20/20 Vision Award for her work in implementing the Violence Against Women Act and mobilizing attorneys to represent survivors of domestic violence. She is a member of the ABA AIDS Coordinating Committee. Professor Drew is a member and past chair of the amicus committee of the National Association of Women Lawyers. Professor Drew is a member of the state bars of Massachusetts, Alabama and Ohio and continues to represent survivors of intimate partner abuse.

Prior to coming to the University of Massachusetts School of Law, Professor Drew taught domestic violence clinics at the University of Alabama Law School, Northeastern University School of Law, and the University of Cincinnati College of Law where she was Director of Clinics and Experiential Learning.

Professor Drew is co-founder and editor of Human Rights at Home Blog.

Publications

Truth Seeking: The Lenahan Case and the Search for A Human Rights Remedy, St. Louis Law Journal, forthcoming (Spring 2018)

It's Not Complicated: Containing Criminal Law's Influence on the Title IX Process, Tennessee Journal of Race, Gender & Social Justice Volume 6 Fall 2017 Number 2

Collaboration and Intention, Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution, Vol. 32 2017 No. 3

Evolution of Law School Clinics (Book Chapter with Andrew Morriss) BEYOND ELITE LAW: Access to Civil Justice for Americans of Average Means (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2016)

Collaboration and Coercion, Hastings Women's Law Journal, Vol. 24, No. 79, (2013), 1 Irish Law Journal 27 (2012)

Denying Choice of Forum, An Interference by the Massachusetts Trial Courts with Domestic Violence Victims’ Rights and Safety, Suffolk University Law Review, Vol. 43 (2010)

Do Ask and Do Tell: Rethinking the Lawyer’s Duty to Warn in Domestic Violence Cases (with S. Buel) University of Cincinnati Law Review, Vol. 75, No. 447 (2006)

Lawyer Malpractice and Domestic Violence: Are we Re-Victimizing Our Clients?
Family Law Quarterly, Vol. 39, p. 7 (2005)