Professor Hensley is an associate professor of law at the University of Mississippi School of Law. She received a bachelor’s in classics and letters from the University of Oklahoma, pursued graduate work in Near Eastern studies at Yale University, and earned a Juris Doctor from Georgetown Law Center. She was a Public Interest Law Scholar while at Georgetown and after graduation served as an Equal Justice Works Fellow for Bread for the City in Washington, D.C., where she provided legal services to low-income tenants. She later practiced real property and estate planning law in D.C. with the Law Offices of Quinn O’Connell.
Hensley teaches property and real estate and is currently the director of the Low-Income Housing Clinic. Her teaching and scholarly interests include fair housing, land tenure and security, landlord tenant law, affordable housing policy, and substantive and procedural due process rights in adult protective proceedings. Her article “Out in the Cold: The Failure of Tenant Enforcement of the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit” appeared in the University of Cincinnati Law Review in 2014. Her recent article, “Due Process is Not Optional: Mississippi Conservatorship Proceedings Fall Short on Basic Due Process Protections for Elderly and Disabled Adults,” appeared in the Mississippi Law Journal in 2017. Professor Hensley is admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia and in Mississippi.