B.B.A., College of William & Mary; J.D., George Washington; LL.M., George Washington
Professor Spratley researches in the areas of business and nonprofit law, creativity and innovation and educational trends and approaches to teaching, focusing on advancing entrepreneurship within the creative and innovative economies and topics in legal education. She has presented and moderated at conferences and events across the country in cities including: Albany, NY; Boston; Chicago; Ft. Worth, TX; New York City; Philadelphia; San Francisco; and Washington, DC. Her publications include law articles “Engaging Outside Counsel in Transactional Law Clinics” and “Connecting Law and Creativity: The Role of Lawyers in Supporting Creative and Innovative Economic Development,” and book chapter “How Microenterprise Development Contributes to Community Economic Development.”
Professor Spratley is a Visiting Professor of Law at Georgetown Law teaching and supervising students in its Social Enterprise & Nonprofit Law Clinic. She has taught courses related to business and corporate law, nonprofit law, community development, intellectual property and real property law, including doctrinal, clinical and online courses. She has taught at University of Massachusetts School of Law-Dartmouth, University of Pennsylvania Law School, and The George Washington University Law School–where she was the inaugural Friedman Fellow in the law school’s Small Business & Community Economic Development Clinic. Professor Spratley served as Chair of the Publications sub-committee and co-editor of the digital Newsletter for the Community Economic Development committee of the American Bar Association (ABA) Business Law Section.
Professor Spratley obtained her LL.M. degree focusing in Small Business Law and Clinical Legal Education and her J.D. degree from The George Washington University Law School, where she served on the ADR Board, Mock Trial Board, Moot Court Board, and was a Regional Semi-Finalist and the GW First Place Team Winner of the Giles S. Rich Intellectual Property Law Moot Court Competition. She held positions as a GW Law Faculty Research Assistant, GW Law Library Legal Research Fellow, Associate Editor for the Elliott School International Affairs Review Academic Journal, and was a Summer Associate at a large law firm. She obtained her B.B.A. degree focusing in business and psychology from The College of William and Mary and is licensed to practice law in the District of Columbia, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts.