Emily Houh

Emily Houh is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Cincinnati. She is a graduate of Brown University ('93) and the University of Michigan Law School ('96). At the Law School, she was a founding member and articles editor of the Michigan Journal of Race & Law, and was awarded the Women Lawyers of Michigan Julia D. Darlow Award. After law school, Professor Houh clerked for the Hon. Anna Diggs Taylor, U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan. Following her clerkship, she practiced law as staff attorney with the Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago and then as a commercial litigation associate at Miller, Canfield, Paddock & Stone, P.L.C., in Detroit, Michigan. In Fall 2003, Professor Houh joined the faculty at the University of Cincinnati College of Law after teaching at the Salmon P. Chase College of Law at Northern Kentucky University for three years. Professor Houh teaches contracts and commercial law courses, as well as courses in critical race theory and race and the law. In her writing, she attempts to incorporate critical race theory, feminist legal theory, and anti-subordination theory into contract law. Professor Houh also has served on the Board of Governors of the Society of American Law Teachers (www.saltlaw.org) since 2003, and is an officer of the Law and Humanities section of the Association of American Law Schools.

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