Maureen Johnson

Maureen Johnson is Visiting Professor of Law at Seattle University School of Law, specializing in applied legal storytelling, rhetoric, persuasion, and Supreme Court processes. She brings extensive experience from top-ranked legal writing programs at UC Irvine, University of Connecticut, UNLV, and Loyola Law School.

Her scholarship examines intersections between legal rhetoric and social justice, particularly civil rights and antiracism frameworks. Publications analyze rhetorical strategies in landmark cases, narrative techniques in appellate briefs, and institutional approaches to racial equity. Notable work includes deconstructing the rhetorical legacy of Plessy v. Ferguson and examining Vice President Harris's narrative positioning.

Professor Johnson founded #EQ4ALL@LLS at Loyola Law School, an initiative profiling advocates for equity. Her teaching emphasizes humanizing legal narratives to drive social change. Prior to academia, she practiced appellate litigation at Mayer Brown and Kaye Scholer LLP, successfully arguing published appeals including Global Hawk v. Le.