Claire Johnson Raba
Assistant Professor of Law
Contact
- Building & Room:
- C-927
- Address:
- 300 S. State Street
- Office Phone:
- (312) 427-2737 ext. 29488
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About
Claire Johnson Raba teaches Civil Procedure, Consumer Law, and Access to Justice & Legal Technology.
Professor Johnson Raba is an empirical legal scholar researching access to civil justice and the impact of the civil legal system on low-income borrowers and their communities. At the intersection of big data, emerging legal technologies, consumer protection, and racial and social justice, her research is directed at substantively improving the experiences of self-represented litigants in state court. Prior to joining academia, Professor Johnson Raba was a legal aid civil litigator representing low-income consumers in state, federal, and bankruptcy court.
Professor Johnson Raba’s grant-funded research has been supported by the American Bar Foundation / JPB Foundation Access to Justice Scholars Program, the Pew Charitable Trusts, the State Bar of California, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the UIC Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy. She is an IRRPP 2025-2026 Policy & Social Engagement Fellow, working in partnership with Chicago Appleseed Center for Fair Courts to study the impact of civil asset forfeiture on families and over-policed communities in Illinois.
Professor Johnson Raba has taught as a Clinical Teaching Fellow in the University of California, Irvine School of Law Consumer Law Clinic and as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco. She holds a B.A. cum laude in political science from California State University East Bay and a J.D. with a public interest concentration from the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco. She was an Equal Justice Works fellow sponsored by Arnold & Porter LLP.
Professor Johnson Raba is a co-Principal Investigator with the Debt Collection Lab, a project of Princeton University. She is the co-chair of the Law and Society Association Collaborative Research Network on Household Debt, serves on the Legal Services Corporation Civil Court Data Initiative Advisory Working Group, and has served as chair of the Equal Justice Works Alumni Advisory Council.
Claire Johnson Raba is admitted to the State Bar of California and Illinois and to the Northern and Central District of California District and Bankruptcy Courts.