Professor Johnson is often moving between continents, working on international legal education projects in the Ukraine, Russia and other exciting places. A Harvard-trained full professor and director of the Center for Intellectual Property, Technology and Telecommunications at California Western School of Law, she has done telecommunications work around the world, collaborating with regulators, innovators, and within public-private partnerships. She has experience in diverse professional environments, practicing corporate law at White and Case, working as a government lawyer for the District of Columbia, and creating new enterprises as an entrepreneur in the fields of real estate and broadcasting.
In 2010, Professor Johnson helped her students launch “Create a Job Initiative,” a job campaign to increase exports through trans-border licensing, where intellectual property is exported abroad in industries such as information technology, entertainment, biotech, and clean energy. She has also spoken and written extensively on privatization of telecommunications, and served on President Clinton's Transition Team for Science, Space and Technology.
Professor Johnson is an internationally-recognized innovator of technology and education. She is a pioneer in distance learning in legal education. In 1996, she taught the first distance-learning course at an American law school, connecting two campuses and three outside sites using videoconferencing. She has developed and taught distance-learning modules and courses at several American Bar Association law schools and internationally. Professor Johnson drafted the ABA Distance Learning Standards for CWSL. In addition, she has been a lead evaluator and reviewer for the U.S. Department of Education's Star Schools Program and Technology Grant Program. Johnson was a Carnegie Scholar (2000-2001).
Always on the cutting edge, Professor Johnson was selected in 1995 as the first non-scientist member of the Summer Faculty at NASA’s Lewis Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. While at NASA, Professor Johnson perfected a prototype for integrating skills into courses using technology by working with NASA scientists and teachers. She used the prototype to develop “Cyber Workbooks,” a web-based authoring platform that helps faculty create course modules that teach critical thinking, applied reasoning, and problem-solving in substantive courses, with built-in assessment tools.
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