Creola Johnson
Presidents Club Professor of Law
Expertise
Education
- BS, Louisiana State University
- JD, West Virginia University
Biography
Following graduation, Professor Creola Johnson spent four years practicing bankruptcy and corporate law at Klett, Lieber, Rooney and Schorling in Pittsburgh.
She has taught at the West Virginia University College of Law and has worked as a staff attorney with Pittsburgh’s Neighborhood Legal Services Association, supervising a bankruptcy project for law students.
Before joining the Moritz College of Law faculty, Professor Johnson was a faculty fellow at the University of Iowa College of Law.
She teaches Sales, Secured Transactions, Debtor and Creditor Rights, Business Bankruptcy, Consumer Protection and Non-Conventional Lending, and Consumer Law.
Selected Scholarship
- Creola Johnson, Prosecuting Creditors and Protecting Consumers: Cracking Down on Creditors That Extort via Debt Criminalization Practices, 80 Law & Contemp. Probs. 211 (2017). https://heinonline.org/HOL/P?h=hein.journals/lcp80&i=731
- Creola Johnson, Pamela Foohey, Jim Hawkins, & Nathalie Martin, Consumer Credit in America: Past, Present, and Future, 80 Law & Contemp. Probs. 1 (2017). https://ssrn.com/abstract=2977263
- Creola Johnson, Creditors’ Use of Consumer Debt Criminalization Practices and Their Financial Abuse of Women, 34 Colum. J. Gender & L. 5 (2016). https://heinonline.org/HOL/P?h=hein.journals/coljgl34&i=15
- Creola Johnson, Is a Law Degree Still Worth the Price?: It Depends on What the Law School Has to Offer You (2014). https://cap-press.com/books/isbn/9781611633719/Is-a-Law-Degree-Still-Worth-the-Price
- Creola Johnson, Fakers, Breachers, Slackers, and Deceivers: Opportunistic Actors During the Foreclosure Crisis Deserve Criminal Sanctions, 40 Cap. U. L. Rev. 853 (2012). https://heinonline.org/HOL/P?h=hein.journals/capulr40&i=875
- Creola Johnson, Congress Protected the Troops: Can the New CFPB Protect Civilians from Payday Lending?, 69 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 649 (2012). https://ssrn.com/abstract=2160557
- Creola Johnson, America’s First Consumer Financial Watchdog Is on a Leash: Can the CFPB Use Its Authority to Declare Payday-Loan Practices Unfair, Abusive, and Deceptive?, 61 Cath. U. L. Rev. 381 (2012). https://ssrn.com/abstract=2160542
- Creola Johnson, Renters Evicted En Masse: Collateral Damage Arising from the Subprime Foreclosure Crisis, 62 Fla. L. Rev. 975 (2010). https://heinonline.org/HOL/P?h=hein.journals/uflr62&i=995
- Creola Johnson, The Magic of Group Identity: How Predatory Lenders Use Minorities to Target Communities of Color, 17 Geo. J. Poverty L. & Pol'y 165 (2010). https://heinonline.org/HOL/P?h=hein.journals/geojpovlp17&i=169
- Creola Johnson, Financial Literacy Education: Making Financial Literacy as High a Priority as Reading, Writing and Arithmetic, 5 Consumer J. 8 (2009).