Maryann Herman

Maryann Herman is an assistant professor of law at the Thomas R. Kline School of Law of Duquesne University. She teaches courses in Property Law and Conflict of Laws, and she has also taught a wide range academic success courses including Advanced Legal Reasoning and Legal Skills. Her scholarly interests center on property law, with particular focus on takings and the evolving definition of property. Her work also explores how legal structures affect communities displaced by eminent domain and how courts conceptualize ownership rights.

Her scholarship has appeared in the University of Pittsburgh Law Review, Duquesne Law Review, and is forthcoming in the West Virginia Law Review. She presents regularly at national conferences including the Association of American Law Schools and the Central States Law Schools Association.

Legal and Academic Experience

Before joining the tenure-track faculty, Herman served as the director of academic excellence at Duquesne Kline, where she led the legal skills program, mentored students, and developed programming focused on academic support and bar readiness. She also held faculty appointments at Appalachian School of Law, where she directed and taught bar preparation and academic success courses.

Herman began her legal career at the Chicago Legal Clinic, where she assisted pro se litigants in matters involving foreclosure, insurance disputes, and equitable remedies.

She has extensive experience in bar exam preparation, having served on the editorial staff of BarBri Bar Review for several years.

• J.D., Wayne State University, cum laude
• B.A., Mathematics and Political Science, Siena Heights College, cum laude