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faculty
Lisa Owens, PhD
Assistant Professor
Law School
Contact
508-985-1149
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UMass School of Law 220
Education
| 2020 | Columbia University | PhD |
| 2016 | Columbia University | MS |
| 2015 | Columbia University | MA |
| 2013 | Boston University | LLM |
| 2012 | Boston College | JD |
Teaching
- Property
- Remedies
- Law & Social Change
Teaching
Courses
Survey of topics about our system of real property including making and acquiring entitlements; doctrines for vindicating property entitlements; interactions between common law and statutory regimes regarding civil rights and land use regulation; common law means for creating possessory interest such as "estates" and non- possessory interests like easements; aspects of landlord -tenant law; and the basics of real estate transactions.
A study of the classical and modern law of remedies in American jurisprudence. Topics include the types of remedies and calculation of remedies available in litigation; the differences between legal, equitable, and restitutionary remedies; when to elect certain remedies; the contempt of power; interlocutory relief; and the doctrinal history and underpinnings of this body of law.
Research
Research activities
- Constitutional Issues in Property Law
- Inequality
- Housing
Research
Research interests
- The Public Law of Property
- Housing
- Wealth Inequality
- Public Accommodations
- Eminent Domain
Dr. Lisa Lucile Owens is a scholar of the public law of property.
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, the Maine Law Review, Socius, Critical Sociology, TRAILS, Frontiers in Sociology, and The Alabama Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Law Review.