FULL-TIME FACULTY

Kathleen C. Engel is a national authority on mortgage finance and regulation, subprime and predatory lending, and housing discrimination. Her many publications, some of which she wrote with her frequent co-author, Professor Patricia McCoy, include articles in Texas Law Review, Fordham Law Review, Washington University Law Quarterly, Connecticut Law Review and the Fordham Urban Law Journal. Professor Engel presents her research in academic, banking, and policy forums throughout the country and around the world. Her analysis of financial services markets and the laws that regulate them regularly catches the attention of the press. She has consulted with all levels of government on issues related to predatory lending and mortgage lending discrimination.

Professor Engel is a graduate of Smith College and the University of Texas School of Law. Following graduation from law school, Professor Engel clerked for Judge Homer Thornberry of the Fifth Circuit of Appeals in Austin, Texas. She then practiced law at Burnham & Hines in Boston, where she primarily represented plaintiffs in civil rights and housing and employment discrimination cases. Professor Engel has previously taught at Case Western Reserve University School of Law and Northeastern University School of Law. She comes to Suffolk Law from the faculty at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law where she taught for the past 10 years. Professor Engel is teaching Credit and Catastrophe and Torts at Suffolk Law.

Degrees:
A.B., Smith College; JD, University of Texas

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Prof. Kathleen C. Engel
Suffolk University Law School
120 Tremont Street
Boston, MA 02108-4977