Professor Margaret C. Hannon, '05, joined the Law School faculty in 2013 as a clinical assistant professor in the Legal Practice Program.
Featured Scholarship
"Legal Writing Mechanics: A Bibliography"
- Legal Writing and Research
"Plant Closings and Reductions in Force"
- Labor and Employment Law
"Spoiler Alert: When the Supreme Court Ruins Your Brief Problem Mid-Semester"
- Law and Social Sciences
"Plant Closings and Reductions in Force"
- Labor and Employment Law
Activities
Presented Using Technology to Teach and Give Feedback (Leg. Writing Inst. New Teacher Training Bootcamp)
Presented The Benefits and Joys of Writing Scholarship for a Practitioner Audience at the Legal Writing Institute Conference.
Appointed by the Supreme Court of Michigan and State Bar of Michigan to the Task Force on Well-Being in the Law.
Co-presented "Whipping Up Wellness: Promoting the Well-Being of LRW Faculty and Students for a Successful Program" at the Association of Legal Writing Directors Conference, Boston.
Representative Matters
Served as co-counsel for plaintiff in a challenge to the "photo and print" procedures of the City of Grand Rapids, Michigan—as applied to juveniles who are stopped by police and who lack identification—and obtained two favorable decisions from the Michigan Supreme Court regarding municipal liability under Section 1983 and unreasonable search and seizure under the Fourth Amendment.
Represented law professors as amicus curiae in Reproductive Freedom for All v. Board of State Canvassers in urging the Michigan Supreme Court to direct the Board of Canvassers to put the reproductive freedom ballot initiative on the November ballot.