
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
- The Consequences of Racial Health Inequity on Health Care Access, ____________ UMKC L. Rev. _________ (2023) (forthcoming)
- 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)
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Courses taught by Maya Watson
Winter Term 2023