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Lydia D. Johnson

Director of Clinical Legal Studies Program and Professor of Law

(713) 313-7004lydia.johnson@tmslaw.tsu.edu

Joined the faculty in 2011.

Education
B.A., Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 1984
J.D., South Texas College of Law, Houston, TX 1987

Courses Taught
Criminal Trial Practice
Criminal Externship
Criminal Law Clinic
Judicial Externship

Biographical Information

  • Professor, and Director of Clinical Legal Studies Program, 麻豆宿舍电视剧, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, TX (2024-current)
  • Professor, 麻豆宿舍电视剧, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, TX (2015-Present)
  • Assistant Professor, Clinical Legal Studies Program, 麻豆宿舍电视剧, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, TX (2011-2015)
  • Director, Criminal Law Clinic, 麻豆宿舍电视剧, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, TX (2006-2012)
  • Clinical Instructor, Criminal Law Clinic, 麻豆宿舍电视剧, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, TX (2000-2011)
  • Associate Municipal Court Judge, City of Houston, Houston, TX (1997-Present)
  • Assistant District Attorney, Harris County District Attorney's Office, Houston, TX (1988-1996)

Select Publications

Juvenile Sex Offenders: Should They Go to School with Your Children or Should We Create a Pedophile Academy Fall 2018 The University of Toledo Law Review

What Does Justice Have to Do with Interpreters in the Jury Room? Summer 2016
University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law

鈥淭he Politics of the Bail System... What鈥檚 the Price of Freedom鈥� Fall 2015 St. Mary鈥檚 Law Journal 

Lydia D. Johnson, 鈥淭he Illusion of a Second Chance: Expunctions versus the Law School and State Bar Application Process,鈥� 9 Florida A&M University Law Review 1 (2013).

Lydia D. Johnson, 鈥淕uilty or Innocent? Just Take a Look at My Brain 鈥� Analyzing the Nexus Between Traumatic Brain Injury and Criminal Responsibility鈥�, 37 Southern University Law Review 25 (2009).

Lydia D. Johnson, 鈥淲hat Effect Will Yarborough v. Alvarado Have On Texas Law Enforcement Interrogation of Suspect Minors鈥�, 30 Thurgood Marshall Law Review 409 (2005).

Presentations

  • MoModerator, Criminal Justice From Within: The Role of the Prosecutor (Fall 2018)
  • Invited Speaker, TMSL Orientation- Meditation and Mindfulness- How to Cope with Stress (Fall 2018
  • Panelist, National Association of Law Students Association Professionals: Mindfulness in the Law for Stressed Out Law Students (Spring  2018)
  • Plenary Speaker, TRIO Upward Bound Leadership Conference: The What, Why and How of Building a Mindful Culture: Can We Talk? (Spring 2018)
  • Invited Speaker - Special Recognition, The Jerome M. KaramMoot Court Naming Ceremony (Spring 2017)
  • Invited Speaker, Press Conference with Harris County District Attorney DA Kim Ogg YouTube October (Fall  2017)
  • Keynote Speaker, TRIO Upward Bound Leadership Conference 鈥淟et鈥檚 Have a Conversation about Jury Selection鈥�(Spring 2015)
  • Presentation, Galveston College Lecture Series Guilty or Innocent Just Take a Look at My Brain, Analyzing the Nexus between Traumatic Brain Injury and Criminal Responsibility  (Spring 2016)

Affiliations

  • Texas A&M Alumni
  • Legal Aid Clinic, 麻豆宿舍电视剧, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, TX
  • National Bar Association
  • Houston Bar Association

Video from Title IX Criminal Defense Clinic