Margaret E. Johnson

Margaret E. Johnson is a 2023 Fulbright Scholar (funded by UTS), University Technology Sydney; Professor of Law and Co-Director, Center on Applied Feminism at The University of Baltimore School of Law in the United States. Professor Johnson’s scholarship focuses on the intersection of menstruation, law, and policy, including the articles Menstrual Justice and Title IX and Menstruation. She has participated in advocacy campaigns for period product provision in jails, prisons, and schools in Maryland; for better policies for menstruating standardized test takers as co-founder of MP and the Bar; and for federal law to include discrimination based on menstruation and menopause as sex discrimination. She is on the expert panel for Our Bodies Ourselves Today, Menstruation to Menopause vertical. As a Fulbright Scholar at the University Technology Sydney, Australia, Johnson is researching comparative menstruation-related law and policy. Professor Johnson has received several awards for her scholarship, teaching, and service, including being named one of the Top 25 Women Professors in Maryland and receiving the USM Board of Regents' Faculty Award for Public Service. Johnson is a graduate of Wisconsin Law School, cum laude, and Dartmouth College.