Prof. Kathleen C. Engel

Professor 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 Housing Policy Debate.  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; Business Week, The Economist, and The Wall Street Journal have all cited her work.   In addition, her research has garnered her both University and national awards.

Professor Engel is an honors graduate from 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 Court 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.  Prior to joining the faculty at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Professor Engel taught at Northeastern University and Case Western Reserve University.

Professor Engel serves as referee for several academic journals, and is a member of the Consumer Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, the Executive Committee of the AALS Section on Financial Institutions and Consumer Financial Services, the Board of Directors of Americans for Fairness in Lending, and the Board of Advisors of the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy (Northeast Ohio Chapter).  She is a consultant to the Department of Housing and Urban Development Study of High Cost Loans and Fair Lending Compliance and numerous state attorneys general. 

Professor Engel teaches courses on torts, civil procedure, employment law, and employment discrimination, and a predatory lending seminar.

A.B., Smith College, 1982
J.D., University of Texas Law School, 1988