Service Management
Resume:
Janet Thompson Jackson
Washburn University School of Law
Topeka, Kansas 66621
abpqe2@r.postjobfree.com
Teaching Experience
Washburn University School of Law Topeka, Kansas
Co-Director, Washburn Law Clinic, July 2011 June 2012
Professor of Law, August 2010 - present
Associate Professor of Law, August 2004 July 2010
Courses taught: Property, Small Business and Transactional Law Clinic, Race & the Law,
Entrepreneurial Law, Faculty Colloquium 2008 (Property in a Technologically Expanding World)
Law School Committee Service: Chair Clinic Director Search, Faculty Recruitment, Dean
Search, Honor Code, Curriculum,
University Committee Service: Tenure and Promotion Standards, University Faculty Senate &
Executive Committee Member, Faculty Senate
Other Service: co-organizing Faculty Colloquium 2012 on Professionalism, co-organizing law
school speaker on diversity issues Nov. 2011, BLSA faculty advisor (2004 present), new
faculty mentor, University President s Roundtable leader (2008), Washburn University
Affirmative Action Conference committee member (chair, presentations sub-committee 2009),
student mentor/advisor
University of Baltimore School of Law Baltimore, Maryland
Clinical Fellow, June 2002 - June 2004
Courses taught: Community Development Clinic, Race & the Law
Service: mentor to first year and transfer students
University of the District of Columbia, District of Columbia
David A Clarke School of Law
Adjunct Professor, August 1999 May 2002
Courses taught: Race & the Law, Lawyering Process I & II
Council on Legal Education Opportunity Summer Institute District of Columbia
University of the District of Columbia, David A. Clarke School of Law
Instructor, Summer 2001
Course taught: Legal Research and Writing
Scholarship and Other Publications
What is Property? Property is Theft: The Lack of Social Justice in U.S. Eminent Domain Law, 84
St. John s Law Review 63 (2010)
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Capitalizing on Digital Entrepreneurship for Low-Income Communities, 112 West Virginia Law
Review 187 (2009)
Can Free Enterprise Cure Urban Ills?: Lost Opportunities for Business Development in Urban,
Low-Income Communities Through the New Markets Tax Credit Program, 37 University of
Memphis Law Review 659 (2007).
"Not-for-Profit Corporations" (Chapter), Kansas Annual Survey, Kansas Bar Association, 2008,
2009, 2010, 2011.
We Have Always Been Here : The Role of Law in the Battle Between Nationalism and
Cultural Pluralism. Work-In-Progress expected publication 2012
Can We Take This Client?: The Thorny Issue of Financial Eligibility in Transactional Law
Clinics. Work-In-Progress.
Media Experience
KTWU, Kansas Public Television Topeka, Kansas
Co-Host, I ve Got Issues, February 2011 Present
- Interview guests on a community affairs monthly series. Episodes hosted:
o Episode 104 Affordable Health Care: A Patient s Perspective
http://www.ktwu.org/productions/ive-got-issues/a-patients-perspective/
o Episode 107 When Terrorists Attack Remembering 9/11
http://www.ktwu.org/productions/ive-got-issues/when-terrorists-attack-remembering-911/
Law Practice and Professional Experience
Families Forward, Inc. District of Columbia
Associate/Executive Director, August 1994 April 2002
- Directed non-profit organization that delivers transitional housing, case management, job
training, job placement, retention services, and GED/Adult Basic Literacy instruction to
homeless and low-income residents of the District of Columbia. Served as Associate
Director from August 1994 to December 1996.
Cole, Raywid and Braverman, L.L.P. District of Columbia
Attorney, September 1991 - June 1994
- Litigation associate for corporate communications clients
Buchanan Ingersoll P.C., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Attorney, August 1988 -September 1991
Summer Associate, May 1987 August 1987
- Litigation associate in civil litigation practice
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Office of the Ohio Attorney General Cleveland, Ohio
Student Attorney, May 1986 - August 1986
Certified Mediator and Conflict Management Specialist Virginia/DC Metro
Consultant, March 1998 - June 2004
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- Mediated conflicts with an emphasis on business, family, and child welfare disputes;
conducted conflict prevention and management workshops; trained individuals and groups in
mediation techniques and practices
Education
Howard University School of Law District of Columbia
Juris Doctor, May 1988
Wittenberg University Springfield, Ohio
Bachelor of Arts, Political Science, 1984
Admissions to Practice and Memberships
Supreme Court of Kansas Kansas Bar Association
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania American Bar Association
Maryland Court of Appeals (inactive) Clinical Legal Education Association
U. S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
Presentations
- Presenter, Not-For-Profit Corporation Governance Basics, Kansas Bar Association
Audio Conference CLE, September 23, 2010
- Presenter, Governance Responsibilities for Nonprofit Boards, Kids Voting USA,
Inc., Kansas City, Missouri, June 18, 2010
- Presenter, Legal and Ethical Duties of Religious Organizations, Mainstream Voices
of Faith, Topeka, Kansas, April 28, 2010
- Presenter, Governance Responsibilities and Strategic Planning, The Brown
Foundation for Educational Equity, Excellence and Research, Lawrence, Kansas,
April 24, 2010
- Panelist, Capitalizing on Digital Entrepreneurship In and For Low-Income
Communities, Digital Entrepreneurship: The Incentives and Legal Risks, West
Virginia University Law Center, March 27, 2009.
- Presenter, "Risk Management for Nonprofit Board of Directors," Mainstream, Inc.,
Topeka, Kansas, January 22, 2009.
- Presenter and Facilitator, "Governance Responsibilities of Nonprofit Boards," Douglas
County Dental Clinic Board of Directors Retreat, Lawrence, Kansas, August 9, 2008.
- "Recent Developments in Nonprofit Law and Governance," Washburn University
School of Law, Recent Developments in the Law CLE, Topeka, Kansas, June 26,
2008.
- Presenter, "Rethinking Cross-Cultural Training," 2008 Association of American Law
Schools Conference on Clinical Legal Education, Tucson, Arizona, May 5, 2008.
- Presenter, "Can We Take This Client?: The Thorny Issue of Financial Eligibility in
Transactional Clinics," 7th Annual Transactional Law Clinic Faculty Conference and
Workshop: Work-in-Progress, Detroit, Michigan, April 24-25, 2008.
- Presenter, "Governance Responsibilities of Nonprofit Boards," Mainstream, Inc., d/b/a
Kansas Nonprofit Association, Topeka, Kansas, March 13, 2008.
- "Non-profit Governance," Kansas Bar Association Super CLE Telephone Seminar,
February 7, 2008.
- Co-Presenter, Expert Learning for Law Students, Attitude is Essential Program,
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Council on Legal Education Opportunity, Atlanta, Georgia, July 2007.
- Presenter, "Essay Exam Taking Techniques," Council on Legal Education
Opportunity: Thurgood Marshall Legal Opportunity Educational Program, 2007 Mid-
Winter Academic Enhancement Seminar, Alexandria, Virginia, January 6, 2007.
- Panelist, "Teaching Transactional Law in the Classroom," 5th Annual
Entrepreneurship/Exempt Organization Law Conference and Workshop, Chicago,
Illinois, April 7, 2006.
- Panelist, "The Intersection of Law and Business: Teaching and Research - Programs
Between Law Schools and Business Schools," AALS 2006 Annual Meeting,
Washington, D.C., January 3-7, 2006.
- Moderator, "Promoting Social and Economic Justice Through Clinical Teaching,"
2005 Midwest Clinical Conference: Carrying Brown's Legacy Forward: Justice,
Service, Teaching, sponsored by Washburn Law Clinic, Topeka, Kansas, October 7-8,
2005.
- Moderator and Panel Coordinator, "Hot Issues in Environmental Law for Housing
Development," ABA Forum on Housing and Community Development Law 14th
Annual Conference: Creating Opportunities in Challenging Times, Washington, D.C.,
May 26-27, 2005.
- Panelist, "Putting 'Business' Into the Education of Business Lawyers," ABA Business
Law Section 2005 Spring Meeting, Nashville, Tennessee, March 31, 2005.
- Moderator and Panel Coordinator, "Joint Ventures Between Nonprofits and For-
profits," ABA Forum on Housing and Community Development Law Mid-Winter
Meeting: Doing Good While Doing Good-- Building Housing and Community with a
Social Justice Perspective, San Francisco, California, February 25-26, 2005.
- Moderator and Panel Coordinator, "Case Study: New Markets/Historic Rehab
Projects," ABA Forum on Affordable Housing and Community Development Law,
13th Annual Conference: Building Housing and Communities Fifty Years After
Brown v. Board, Washington, D.C., May 20-21, 2004.
- Panelist, "Race, Racism and Free Enterprise: Can Free Enterprise Cure Low-Income
Communities?" ABA Section on Taxation 2004 May Meeting, Washington, D.C.,
May 6-8, 2004.
- Panelist and Coordinating Committee Member, Concurrent Session, "The Career Path
of the Clinical Teacher: Pioneer, Evolving, Surviving, Thriving," AALS Conference
on Legal Education: Back to Basics, Back to the Future, San Diego, California, May
1-4, 2004.
- Panelist, "Understanding New Markets Tax Credits," Wall Street Without Walls
Training Workshop, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Baltimore Branch,
Baltimore, Maryland, July 22, 2003.
- Trainer, "Mediation Basics for Foreign Service Personnel," Foreign Service Institute
of the U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC, June 2001.
- Trainer, "Conflict Management in the Workplace," Marriott Bridges Program, Silver
Spring, Maryland, 2000.
Community Service
Brown Foundation for Educational Equity, Excellence, and Research, Chair-Elect, Board
of Directors, Topeka, Kansas (October 2009 Present)
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Mainstream, Inc., d/b/a the Kansas Nonprofit Association, Topeka, Kansas (Board of
Directors, 2006 2010; Presenter 2008 Present)
Wittenberg University, Alumni Board Member, Springfield, Ohio (October 2004
Present (leave of absence 2010 present))
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