Maya Watson
Maya Watson
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Biography
Maya Watson is the Director of the Business and Community Law Clinic and an Assistant Clinical Professor. A native Detroiter, she joined Wayne State Law’s faculty in 2022.
She brings eleven years of practicing transactional law, as an Associate and a Partner, in Detroit law firms.
Prior to joining Wayne Law’s faculty, she served as the Director of the Maywood Medical-Legal Partnership and a Clinical Teaching Fellow at Loyola University Chicago School of Law. At Loyola Chicago, she co-taught Health Justice Lab: Race and Health Equity and Health Justice Clinic Weekend. Her scholarship focuses on health equity, social justice, and reparative justice.
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Degrees and Certifications
J.D., Wayne State University Law School
LL.M., Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
B.A. Lincoln University, PAShe is licensed to practice in MI, CA, and IL.
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Courses Taught
Business and Community Law Clinic
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Selected Publications
- Inaccessible Health Care, 92 UMKC L. Rev. 393 (2023)
- An Inter-professional AntiRacist Curriculum is Paramount to Addressing Racial Inequities in Health, Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Vol. 50, Issue 1: (Spring 2022), p. 109-16 (with Abigail Silva, Jessica L. Simpson and L. Kate Mitchell).
- A Civil Rights Act for Public Health, 98 U. Det. Mercy L. Rev. 299 (2021)
- “The United States' Hollow Commitment to Eradicating Global Racial Discrimination,” ABA Human Rights Magazine, Vol. 44, No. 4 (Jan. 2020)
- Filling the Gaps: A community case study in using an interprofessional approach and community-academic partnerships to address COVID-19-related inequities. Frontiers Public Health. In press. Kutchma M, Perez J, Stranges E, Steele K, Garis T, Prost A, Simbul S, Choo-Kang C, Gbikpi Benissan DG, Smith-Haney G, Mora N, Watson M, Griffith T, Booker N, Harrington A, Mitchell K, Blair A, Luke A, Silva A.
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Recent courses taught
Fall Term 2025 (future)
Winter Term 2025 (current)
Fall Term 2024
Winter Term 2024
Fall Term 2023
Winter Term 2023