Dana A. Thompson, ’99, is a clinical professor of law and directs Michigan Law’s Transactional Law Clinics Program, the Community Enterprise Clinic, and the Zell Entrepreneurship Clinic. She has devoted most of her legal career to representing community-based organizations and small businesses on transactional matters to advance economic, racial, and social justice in urban communities.
Featured Scholarship
"Lawyers as Social Engineers: How Lawyers Should Use Their Social Capital to Achieve Economic Justice"
Michigan Journal of Race and Law
- Law and Social Sciences
"Caring for the Souls of Our Students: The Evolution of a Community Economic Development Clinic During Turbulent Times"
Clinical Law Review
- Public Interest Law
"Accelerating the Growth of the Next Generation of Innovators"
Ohio State Entrepreneurial Business Law Journal
"L3CS: An Innovative Choice for Urban Entrepreneurs and Urban Revitalization"
American University Business Law Review
- Administrative Law
Activities
Gave the keynote speech about the unequal access to capital and other resources for businesses owned by women and people of color, Duke University’s Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity’s Capital Matters conference.
Panelist, “A Lawyer’s Life: Life as a Transactional Lawyer,” University of Michigan Law School.
Presented during the panel session, “Collaborating for Innovation: Cooperative Approaches to Supporting the IP and Business-Law Needs of Entrepreneurs,” Midwest Conference on Clinical Legal Education,” University of Michigan Law School.
Presented “Preparing Students to be Interdisciplinary Collaborators for Change,” 2019 Association of American Law Schools Clinical Conference.
Presented “Primer on Community Economic Development,” ABA Forum of Affordable Housing and Community Development Law.
Presenter, “Examining Race and Privilege in Community Economic Development,” Association of American Law Schools conference, New Orleans.