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Lisa V. Martin
| Title: | Professor of Law |
| Joseph F. Rice School of Law | |
| Email: | lvmartin@law.sc.edu |
| Phone: | 803-777-2490 |
| Office: | 1525 Senate Street Columbia, SC 29208 |
| Resources: | CV [pdf] SSRN |
Background
Lisa Martin is a professor at the University of South Carolina Joseph F. Rice School of Law. She specializes in legal issues relating to gender-based violence, the rights of adolescents, and children’s access to civil justice.
Martin is a fellow of the American Bar Foundation, an appointed member of the South
Carolina Access to Justice Commission, co-chair of the AALS Bellow Scholar Committee
and a former Bellow Scholar, member of the NMRS Center on Professionalism’s Advisory
Board, and an affiliate faculty member of the USC Women’s and Gender Studies Department.
Martin has held a number of leadership roles in the clinical legal education community
including serving as co-president of the Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA),
treasurer of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Section on Clinical Legal
Education, and a member of the planning committee for the AALS Annual Clinical Legal
Education Conference.
Martin received her B.A., magna cum laude, from the College of William and Mary, and her J.D., cum laude, from the Georgetown University Law Center.
Teaching
- Domestic Violence Clinic
- Evidence
- Gender-Based Violence Seminar
- Immigration Law
Selected Scholarship
- Parental Authority over Children’s Litigation, 67 B.C. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2026).
- The Importance of Civil Pathways to Protection Orders, 113 Geo. L.J. 121 (2024). featured in Allan Erbsen, Expanding Access to Civil Remedies for Domestic Violence, JOTWELL (June 3, 2025)
- Securing Access to Justice for Children, 57 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 615 (2022)
- Modernizing Capacity Doctrine, 73 Fla. L. Rev. 821 (2021).
- Litigation as Parenting, 95 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 442 (2020).
- No Right to Counsel, No Access Without: The Poor Child’s Unconstitutional Catch-22, 71 Fla. L. Rev. 831 (2019). Quoted by Raskin on behalf of JD v. Dallas Independent School District, 69 F.4th 280 (5th Cir. 2023)(majority opinion & Oldham J., dissenting and concurring in judgment); cited by Grizzell v. San Elijo Elementary School, No. 21-55956, 2024 WL 3682780 at *3 (9th Cir. Aug 7, 2024).