Margaret E. Johnson

Margaret E. Johnson (she/her) is a professor of law, director at Bronfein Family Law Clinic, and co-director of the Center on Applied Feminism at The University of Baltimore School of Law. Professor Johnson has trained scores of law students and clinical teaching fellows in client-centered and justice-forward family law practice, including reproductive justice advocacy. She and her students have successfully advocated for multiple laws requiring safer housing opportunities for IPV survivors, reproductive health care for women in prison, and non-coercive access to period products in prison, jails, and schools.

Professor Johnson’s scholarship and advocacy focuses on gender issues, and most recently, on issues of menstruation, law, and policy, including in areas of employment and education discrimination. Professor Johnson has advocated for better bar exam policies as co-founder of MP and the Bar; for federal education and employment law regulations protecting against menstruation and menopause discrimination; and improved school menstruation education curricula. In 2023, Professor Johnson was awarded a Fulbright Scholar (funded by University Technology Sydney) to collaboratively research menstruation, law, and policy resulting in a ground-breaking report, “Menstrual Justice: A Human Rights Vision for Australia.”

Professor Johnson has been a visiting professor at NYU Law, Georgetown Law, and American University, Washington College of Law. She has received several awards for her scholarship, teaching, and service, including the 2024 Rosalyn B. Bell Award for Outstanding Accomplishment in Family Law by the Women’s Law Center of Maryland, the University System of Maryland Board of Regents' Faculty Award for Public Service, and being named one of the Top 25 Women Professors in Maryland. Professor Johnson is a graduate of Wisconsin Law School, cum laude, and Dartmouth College.

As a Peace Corps volunteer, I was permitted to order free books and one of the first was the original Our Bodies, Ourselves book, which provided me with critical health information as I spent two years on Majkin Island, Namu Atoll in the Republic of the Marshall Islands. Today, I am honored and excited to curate reliable and accurate information for OBOS Today because I know how meaningful it can be.