He served has the Director of the War on Poverty’s OEO Legal Services Program from 1966-68, then as a Professor of Law at the University of Southern California where he also directed the Program on Dispute Resolution Policy at USC’s Social Science Research Institute and was a visiting scholar at the University of Florence’s Comparative Law Center where he worked with Mauro Cappelletti on the Florence Access-to-Justice Project. Johnson started his legal career as a federal prosecutor in the Organized Crime and Racketeering Section, bust shifted to the legal service field when he became Deputy Director of Washington’s Neighborhood Legal Services Project (now Program) in 1964.
in Criminal Law from Northwestern University School of Law. from University of Chicago Law School where he was book review editor of the University of Chicago Law Review, and his LL.M. with Honors in Economics from Northwestern University, his J.D. served as Justice on the California Court of Appeal for a quarter century, retiring in 2007 for the express purpose of researching and writing a history of civil legal aid in the United States, a three-volume under the title “To Establish Justice for All: The Past and Future of Civil Legal Aid in the United States” (2014). He was a member of the Board of Trustees of Oberlin College.Įarl Johnson Jr.
He has received the Earl Johnson Equal Justice Award, National Equal Justice Award, the Oberlin College Distinguish Achievement Award, the Coalition on Human Needs Hero Award and three NLADA Special Awards. He is a graduate of Oberlin College and New York University School of Law, where he was a Hays Civil Liberties Fellow. He has taught at Georgetown University Law Center and Wayne State University Law School. Volunteer work includes: Chair of the Civil Committee and board member of NLADA Chair of the Organization of Legal Services Backup Centers staff to the ABA Presidential Task Force on Access to Justice and a member of the ABA Task Force to Revise the Standards for the Provision of Civil Legal Aid, the Comprehensive Legal Needs Study Advisory Group, and ABA Special Committee on Access to Justice. He has written numerous articles, manuals, papers and books on legal services and poverty law advocacy as well as on welfare policies. He has been Assistant Director of the Law Students Civil Rights Research Council, a Reginald Heber Smith Fellow, founder and director of Michigan Legal Services and Director of the Research Institute at the Legal Services Corporation. He was Executive Director of the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) from 1981 – 2013. Houseman is President of the Consortium for the National Equal Justice Library.
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