Access Restricted to Northwestern Law CommunityJoyce A. Hughes
In 1971 Joyce A. Hughes became the nation's first Black female tenure-track law professor at a majority school, 20 years after such a person was a professor at a predominantly Black law school. She has served as a member of the Illinois Supreme Court's Committee on Rules of Evidence and a member of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies' Committee on Policy for Racial Justice.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Civil Procedure
- Evidence
- Immigration Law
PUBLICATIONS
Recent Publications
- Black and Female in Law, 5 RUTGERS RACE & THE LAW REVIEW 105-115, 2003
- In the Beginning, Perspectives (American Bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession) 3, Spring/Summer 2001
- Flight From Cuba, 36 CALIFORNIA WESTERN LAW REVIEW 39-75, 1999
- Different Strokes: The Challenges Facing Black Women Law Professors in Selecting Teaching Methods, 16 NATIONAL BLACK LAW JOURNAL 27, 1998
EDUCATION
- BA magna cum laude, Carleton College
- JD cum laude, University of Minnesota
PRIOR APPOINTMENTS
- Associate Professor of Law, Northwestern 1975-79
- Associate Professor of Law, University of Minnesota, 1971-75
- Attorney, Howard, LeFevere, Lefler, Hamilton and Pearson, (Minneapolis) 1967-71
- Law Clerk, Hon. Earl R. Larson, U.S. District Court, Minnesota, 1965-67
RECENT CONSULTING ACTIVITIES
- Arbitrator, Cook County Mandatory Arbitration Program
