Joyce Anne Hughes

Hughes, Joyce Anne

Professor of Law

Phone: (312) 503-8373
E-mail: jahughes@law.northwestern.edu

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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

  • Evidence
  • Immigration Law
  • Civil Procedure

Courses

Selected Publications

  • Black and Female in Law in 5 rutgers race & the law review 105-115 (2003).
  • In the Beginning in perspectives (american bar association commission on women in the profession) 3 (Spring/Summer 2001).
  • Flight From Cuba in 36 california western law review 39-75 (1999).
  • Different Strokes: The Challenges Facing Black Women Law Professors in Selecting Teaching Methods in 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, 1975-1979, Northwestern University
  • Associate Professor of Law, 1971-1975, University of Minnesota
  • Attorney, 1967-1971, Howard, LeFevere, Lefler, Hamilton and Pearson, (Minneapolis)
  • Law Clerk, 1965-1967, Hon. Earl R. Larson, U.S. District Court, Minnesota

Recent Consulting Activities

  • Arbitrator, Cook County Mandatory Arbitration Program