Mary Szto

Before entering teaching, Professor Mary Szto practiced law in New York City, representing banks in financing matters. She also co-founded a legal aid organization specializing in immigration law. She has previously taught at Mitchell Hamline School of Law and Valparaiso University School of Law.  She has been a visiting scholar at the American Bar Foundation and the University of Turin Department of Law.

Szto has written extensively on issues such as the role of real estate agents and housing discrimination, and she has published a bilingual law text on American property law in China. Her articles—on Chinese-American property ownership, anti-corruption law, real estate, Chinese law and ritual, and the American bar exam as ritual—have appeared in the Journal of Transnational Law & Policy, Fordham International Law Journal, Minnesota Journal of International Law, and elsewhere.