Masai McDougall is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law, where he teaches Contracts, Business Organizations, and Critical Race Theory. He has also taught Legal Writing as a Dean Louis Westerfield Fellow (’20-’21) at Loyola University New Orleans School of Law.
With experience from constitutional and commercial litigation to international transactions, Professor McDougall’s courses on Contracts and Business Organizations focus on the practical skills needed to effectively represent clients from small businesses to multinational corporations as well as the theoretical approaches to understand the structures of both law and society.
Professor McDougall is a 2008 graduate of Howard University School of Law. After practicing as a commercial litigator in D.C. and Los Angeles, he expanded his practice into civil rights litigation concerning police brutality and the rights of incarcerated people.
Professor McDougall’s research focuses on the effects of legal procedures on the individual rights of American citizens, a field he experienced first-hand while operating a solo practice for three years. Inspired by the opportunity to help change lives and create a framework to change the legal procedures we rely on for those opportunities, he focuses his efforts on the study of procedure’s impacts on political minorities and avenues for the advancement in American procedural law presented by an analysis of those impacts.
Professor McDougall is a member of the Washington, D.C., Maryland, and California Bars.