Susan R Jones

Susan R. Jones is a Professor of Clinical Law and the Director of the Small Business and Community Economic Development Clinic at the Jacob Burns Community Legal Clinics of the George Washington University Law School. The clinic represents small businesses, nonprofit organizations engaged in community economic development, and arts groups. Professor Jones has held teaching positions at CUNY-Queens Law School, where she taught courses on community economic development and economic justice as the...See more

Susan R. Jones is a Professor of Clinical Law and the Director of the Small Business and Community Economic Development Clinic at the Jacob Burns Community Legal Clinics of the George Washington University Law School. The clinic represents small businesses, nonprofit organizations engaged in community economic development, and arts groups. Professor Jones has held teaching positions at CUNY-Queens Law School, where she taught courses on community economic development and economic justice as the 2004 Haywood Burns Visiting Chair in Civil Rights; at University of Maryland School of Law, where in fall 2006 she was a Distinguished Visiting Scholar; at the Vanderbilt School of Law, where in the fall of 2008 she taught a short course on Perspectives in the Contemporary Community Economic Development Movement; at American University's Washington College of Law, where she taught legal writing; and at Antioch School of Law, where she taught in an immigration law clinic. She has held numerous leadership positions in the American Bar Association (ABA) and the Association of American Law Schools. She served on the Governing Committee of the ABA Forum of Affordable Housing and Community Development Law, is a past Editor-in-Chief and Senior Editor of the ABA Journal of Affordable Housing and Community Development Law, is a past co-chair of the Forum's Legal Educators' Practice Division, and is a co-founder and past co-chair of the Community Economic Development Committee of the ABA Section on Business Law. Previously, she served as a member of the ABA Commission on Homelessness and Poverty, a Fannie Mae Foundation Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (2002), and a member of Leadership Washington (1996). Currently, she serves on the board of directors of Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts. Professor Jones was the 2005 - 2006 Chair of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Section on Clinical Legal Education, a past Chair of the AALS Section on Africa, and a past Chair of the AALS Standing Committee on Clinical Legal Education and of the AALS Section on Poverty Law. Professor Jones has published numerous articles in the field of community economic development, microenterprise development, and small business, and is the author of A Legal Guide to Microenterprise Development (ABA Publishing 2004). Her research interests also include international/comparative community economic development, nonprofit organizations and charitable giving, social entrepreneurship, minority entrepreneurship, and arts and entertainment. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brandeis University and a Juris Doctor Degree and Master of Arts in teaching from Antioch School of Law. January 2010 See less