Mable Martin-Scott

I joined WMU-Cooley Law School in 2000 as a Contracts, Sales, and Commercial Papers professor. I was chair of the Contracts Department from 2009 to 2020. I also teach a course on Multicultural Lawyering. I served as the Assistant Dean of the Lansing Campus from 2016-2020. The Assistant Dean supervises faculty and is the point of contact on all student matters regarding Honor Code, Professionalism, and all matters regarding student success.

In 2020, I was named one of America’s Top Lawyers in Marquis Who’s Who in America. In 2019, I was named one of “The Top Lawyers in Michigan” by Michigan Lawyers Weekly. I was awarded the “Trailblazer Award” by the State of Michigan Davis-Dunnings Bar Association. I am in my eighth year as an Honorary Judge with the Teen Court Juvenile Justice Diversionary Program. I am the co-coordinator with The Links Incorporated, Michigan Women Foundation female youth program called Young Women for Change (YWFC). YWFC is an innovative youth leadership development and philanthropy program. I am on the board of directors of Highfield Youth Center. In 2018, I was named one of the final nominees for the United Way Volunteer of the Year Award.

Before joining the WMU-Cooley faculty, I was Chief Administrative Law Judge for the state of Indiana’s Unemployment Insurance Review Board. I served as State Purchasing Director as well as General Counsel for the Indiana Department of Administration.
I served as the Administrative Appeals Judge and Assistant City Attorney for the city of Evansville, Indiana. I was also in private practice handling criminal and civil matters with a primary emphasis in employment law and domestic relations.

I belong to the State Bars of Michigan and Indiana and am admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court.

Articles (Law Reviews and Law Journals)

• Mable Martin-Scott, Commercial Transactions and Contract Law, 57 Wayne L. Rev. 835 (2011).
• Mable Martin-Scott, Balancing the Americans with Disabilities Act with the National Historic Preservation Act, 2 Art & Museum L.J. 57 (2007).
• Mable Martin-Scott, Joni Larson, Vickie Eggers, Jeanette Buttrey, Laura Dannebohm and Kimberly O’Leary, Using a case progressive Approach to Mapping Learning Outcomes and Developing Assessments, 95 U Det Mercy L. Rev.__(2018)

Books and Chapters in Books

• Mable Martin-Scott, Kim O’Leary “Multicultural Lawyering, Navigating the Culture of the law, the Lawyer and the Client” Carolina Academic Press 2021.

Presentations

• Mable Martin-Scott: How to meet the ABA requirements on implementing formative and summative assessments to measure and improve student learning. Wayne State Law School, 2018.
• Mable Martin-Scott, Multicultural Lawyering, Syracuse University Law School, Jan. 2020.
• Mable Martin-Scott, Multicultural Lawyering Teaching Law Professors Conference, WMU Cooley Law School, March, 2021.