Professor of Law and Director of the Low-Income Housing Clinic
Research Interests
- Low-Income Housing
- Discrimination, Homelessness
- Property, Eminent Domain
- Practice of Law & Client Representation
Biography
Professor Hensley is Professor of Law at the University of Mississippi School of Law. She received a bachelor’s in classics and letters from the University of Oklahoma, pursued graduate work in Near Eastern studies at Yale University, and earned a Juris Doctor from Georgetown Law Center. She was a Public Interest Law Scholar while at Georgetown and after graduation served as an Equal Justice Works Fellow for Bread for the City in Washington, D.C., where she provided legal services to low-income tenants. She later practiced real property and estate planning law in D.C. with the Law Offices of Quinn O’Connell. Hensley teaches property and real estate and teaches and directs the Low-Income Housing Clinic. Her teaching and scholarly interests include fair housing, land tenure and security, eviction and foreclosure protection, affordable housing policy, takings, civil rights, and substantive and procedural due process rights in adult protective proceedings. Professor Hensley is admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia and in Mississippi.
Education
B.A. Classics, University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus (1994)
J.D. Law, Georgetown University (2000)