Mary Anne Franks

Mary Anne Franks received her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2007, where she was Senior Executive Editor of the Harvard Journal of Law and Gender and an Executive Editor of the Harvard Human Rights Journal.  She received her D.Phil.in 2004 and her M.Phil.in 2001 from Oxford University, where she studied on a Rhodes Scholarship. Her dissertation focused on philosophical, legal, and psychoanalytic constructions of sexual violence.  She graduated summa cum laude with a BA in Philosophy and English from Loyola University New Orleans in 1999.

Before coming to Chicago, Mary Anne taught courses in social theory and philosophy at Harvard University, where she received four Derek Bok Distinction in Teaching Awards.  She has also worked as a senior consultant for The SAB Group, conducting negotiation skills seminars for lawyers and other professionals.  Her research and teaching interests include law and gender, free speech, cyberlaw, and international and domestic criminal law.