Professor Mimi Marton joined the UDC Law faculty in 2024 as an Associate Professor of Law. Professor Marton is a clinician who spent the previous ten years at the University of Tulsa College of Law where she taught and launched numerous clinics. One of these clinics was the B.C. Franklin Legal Clinic that served north Tulsa, the Community that survived the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, named for one of the Black attorneys who brought the original lawsuits on behalf of the survivors and heirs of the victims of the Race Massacre against insurance companies, the City of Tulsa, and various other government entities. Professor Marton also served as the Associate Dean of Experiential Learning and Director of Clinical Programs at TU Law for five years. During her time at TU Law, Professor Marton also taught the Immigrant Rights Project clinic, directed the Tulsa Immigrant Resource Network (an immigration incubator), and took students to the Southern Border to do volunteer legal work five times. In addition, Professor Marton spearheaded several advocacy campaigns against the contracts between Tulsa County and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as well as obtained the only contract to go into the detention centers in Oklahoma from ICE.
Prior to her work at TU Law, Professor Marton was the William R. Davis Teaching Fellow at the University of Connecticut School of Law’s Asylum and Human Rights Clinic. At UConn, Professor Marton launched the University’s first interdisciplinary program amongst the AHRC, the School of Social Work and the Medical School. In this program, graduate students in the School of Social Work were part of the legal team representing clients seeking asylum, while graduate students in the Medical School conducted forensic mental health evaluations for those same clients.
Prior to her position at UConn, Professor Marton was an associate at the New York offices of Skadden, Arp, Slate, Meagher & Flom, where she spent an unusual amount of her billable time representing pro bono clients seeking asylum. Professor Marton graduated from the Michigan State University College of Law and subsequently practiced law for seven years in Detroit, Michigan.
Prior to becoming an attorney, Professor Marton obtained her Masters in Social Work from the University of Michigan, and practiced for 14 years with an expertise in trauma, specifically in connection with survivors of gender-based violence.
Professor Marton’s expertise is in the intersection of mental health and the law. Her scholarship and her teaching examines the impact of issues outside the scope of the law, such as client mental health, adjudicator and advocate burnout and secondary trauma, historical and intergenerational trauma, on legal representations. Professor Marton’s most recent work also looks at the history of the lawsuits filed for damages and reparations resulting from the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre over the last 100+ years, particularly those filed in the immediate aftermath of the Massacre that were seeking relief under the 14th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.
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