Mary Anne Franks
Bigelow Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in Law
1111 East 60th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
email: mafranks@post.harvard.edu

Mary Anne Franks received her B.A. in philosophy and English from Loyola University New Orleans in 1999. She studied at Oxford University (Wadham College) for four years on a Rhodes Scholarship, where she received an M. Phil. in European literature and a D.Phil. in modern languages (writing her dissertation on ethics, psychoanalytic theory, and sexual violence). She then taught philosophy at Quincy College in Massachusetts and worked as a research intern for Physicians for Human Rights. In 2007 she received her J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she was Senior Executive Editor of the Harvard Journal of Law and Gender and an Executive Editor of the Harvard Human Rights Journal. Before coming to Chicago Law School, she taught social theory and a freshman seminar on free speech at Harvard University and also worked as a consultant for S.A.B. Negotiation Enterprises. Her research and teaching interests include constitutional law, international and domestic criminal law, human rights, and feminist jurisprudence.