Conrad Johnson
Clinical Professor of Law, Columbia University School of Law
B.A., Columbia, 1975; J.D., Brooklyn, 1978
Staff attorney, Harlem office of Legal Aid Society, Civil Division; named attorney-in-charge in 1983. Asst prof., City University of New York Law School 1987; taught courses in lawyering, professional responsibility, and civil procedure. Joined the Columbia faculty in 1989 as assoc. clinical prof., then clinical prof. Director of clinical programs 1992-96. Co-founded the School’s Fair Housing Clinic. Member, Mayor’s Committee on the Judiciary, 1990-94; the Professional Education Project, by appointment of the Hon. Judith S. Kaye; and numerous boards of directors, including the Clinical Legal Education Association, the Society of American Law Teachers, the City Bar Fund and the National Black Law Journal. Chairs or has chaired committees on technology for Columbia Law School, the Clinical Section, AALS and the Clinical Legal Education Association. Co-creator of the Law School’s first distance-learning offering, Seminar in Race-Conscious Remedies, taught simultaneously at Columbia and UCLA (1999). Created The Impact of Technology on the Legal Profession (2001), one of five prototype e-courses commissioned by the University. Co-founder/director, the Lawyering in the Digital Age Clinic, a first-of-its-kind clinic wherein students learn how to use technology in lawyering and study the impact of technology on the legal profession while working with public interest advocates and the judiciary to incorporate technology in their work. Principal areas of teaching, publication and presentation are lawyering, civil rights, access to justice and technology.