MARY ANNE FRANKS Associate Professor of Law University of Miami School of Law• 1311 Miller Drive, Coral Gables, FL 33146 (305) 284-5345 (office) • [email protected]
EMPLOYMENT
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW, July 2010 – present. Associate Professor of Law Courses: Family Law, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure Seminar: Bias and the Law Independent Studies: Death Penalty, Same-Sex Marriage, Same-Sex Adoption, Incarceration, Law and Gender 2013 Hausler Golden Apple Teaching Award Nominee
CYBER CIVIL RIGHTS INITIATIVE, August 2013-present Vice-President
UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA, PAMPLONA, SPAIN, November 2013. Visiting Professor Course: U.S. Criminal Law
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW SCHOOL, September 2008 – June 2010. Bigelow Fellow and Lecturer in Law; Faculty Affiliate, Center for Gender Studies Seminar: The Social Meaning of Crime; Legal Research and Writing
THE SAB NEGOTIATION GROUP, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, Fall 2007 – 2009. Senior Consultant and Trainer
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Fall 2005 – June 2008 (4 Derek Bok Distinction in Teaching Awards) Lecturer, Department of Social Studies Seminar: Shouting Fire: Laws and Limits of Free Speech, spring 2008 Course: Social Studies 10: Introduction to Social Theory, full year 2007 Teaching Fellow, Government, Philosophy, and English Departments, fall 2005 – winter 2007 Courses: Justice, Existentialism in Literature and Film, Art and Thought of the Cold War
CATHARINE MACKINNON, VISITING PROFESSOR, HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, Fall 2007. Research Assistant
DEBEVOISE AND PLIMPTON, NEW YORK, Summer 2006. Summer Associate (received offer of permanent employment)
INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT (ICC), THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS, June – August 2005. Law Clerk/Visiting Professional, Office of the Prosecutor (Investigations Division)
QUINCY COLLEGE, QUINCY, MASSACHUSETTS, January 2004 - January 2005. Adjunct Faculty, Department of Humanities Courses: Ethics, Introduction to Philosophy, World Religions
EDUCATION
HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, J.D., JUNE 2007 (CUM LAUDE) Honors: National Association of Women Lawyers Outstanding Law School Student Award 2007 Chayes International Public Service Fellow 2005 Reginald Lewis International Internship 2005 Harvard Law School Association Alumnae Fellowship 2005
Activities: Senior Executive Editor, Harvard Journal of Law & Gender Executive Editor, Harvard Human Rights Journal Student Attorney, Criminal Justice Institute Resident Tutor in Law, Eliot House Franks CV 2
OXFORD UNIVERSITY, OXFORD, ENGLAND, D.PHIL., M.PHIL. (RHODES SCHOLAR, LOUISIANA AND WADHAM 1999) § D. Phil., Modern Languages and Literature, January 2004 Doctoral Thesis: “Enjoying Women: Psychoanalysis, Sex, and the Political” Examination Fields: Continental philosophy (ethics), psychoanalytic theory, gender theory, political theory § M. Phil., with distinction, European Literature (French and German), June 2001.
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY NEW ORLEANS, B.A., MAY 1999 (SUMMA CUM LAUDE) Philosophy and English Literature double major, Classics minor Honors: Ignatian (Presidential) Scholar; Phi Beta Kappa Outstanding Thesis Award Activities: Founder and Editor-in-Chief of sous rature (philosophy journal) President, Philosophy Society
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Cyberlaw, criminal law, family law, criminal procedure, self-defense law, discrimination, free speech, law and social norms, law and gender.
PUBLICATIONS
Articles
I Am/I Am Not: On “Race and Essentialism in Feminist Legal Theory.” 102 Cal. L. Rev. (Festschrift in Honor of Angela Harris, forthcoming 2014).
Criminalizing Revenge Porn. Wake Forest L. Rev. (with Danielle Keats Citron) (forthcoming 2014).
Men Advance, Women Retreat: How Stand Your Ground and Battered Women’s Syndrome Safeguard Violence as Male Privilege, Miami L. Rev. (11th Circuit Issue) (forthcoming 2014).
How to Feel Like a Woman, or, Why Punishment is a Drag. 61 UCLA L. Rev. 566 (2014).
Sexual Harassment 2.0. 71 Maryland L. Rev. 655 (2012).
When Bad Speech Does Good. 43 Loy. Chi. L. J. 395 (2012).
Lies, Damned Lies, and Judicial Empathy, 51 Washburn L. J. 61 (2011).
Unwilling Avatars: Idealism and Discrimination in Cyberspace. 20 Colum. J. Gender & L. 224 (2011).
The Banality of Cyber Discrimination, or, The Eternal Recurrence of September. 87 DU Process: 5 (2010).
Guantánamo Forever: U.S. Sovereignty and the Unending State of Exception. 1 Harv. L. & Pol’y Rev. 259 (2007).
What’s Left of Pleasure? A Review of Janet Halley’s Split Decisions: How and Why to Take a Break from Feminism. 30 Harv. J. L. & Gender 257 (2007).
The Insistence of Lacan on Woman as the Letter. The Symptom. Issue 2, Spring 2002.
Remote Locutions: Mediation, Alienation, and Superfluity in Cyberspace Ideology, Janus Head: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature, Continental Philosophy, Phenomenological Psychology, and the Arts (peer- reviewed). Duquesne University, Vol. 1:3, Spring 1999.
Book Chapters
“Practicing to Deceive: Law and Misinformation,” in Law and Lies (Austin Sarat, ed. forthcoming 2015).
“The Legacy of ’Stand Your Ground’” in Guns and Contemporary Society: The Past, Present, and Future of Firearms Franks CV 3 and Firearm Policy (Glen Utter, ed., ABC-CLIO, forthcoming 2015)
“Obscene Undersides: Women and Evil between the Taliban and the US” in Feminist Philosophy and the Problem of Evil. Indiana Univ. Press, 2007 (originally published in Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (peer-reviewed journal) 18:1, 2003).
“An-aesthetic Theory: Adorno, Sexuality, and Memory” in Feminist Interpretations of Adorno. Penn State Press, 2006.
“(Porno)Graphic Depictions: Manufacturing an Erotics of Identity” in Image Into Identity. Rodopi, 2006.
“Von Sex und Andere Akte (Of Sex and Other Acts)” in Über Zizek: Perspektiven und Kritiken. Turia + Kant, 2004.
“Controlled Exposure: Courbet’s L’origine du monde and the Woman-Thing” in Exposure: Revealing Bodies, Unveiling Representations. Peter Lang, 2004.
“Obscene Supplements, or, what we talk about when we talk about death” in Postmodern Productions. Lit Verlag, 2001.
Short Articles & Blog Posts
Stand Your Ground’s Woman Problem: Laws Expanding Self-Defense Raise Questions about Gender as Well as Race, Huffington Post, March 3, 2014.
Why Revenge Porn Must be a Crime, New York Daily News, Feb. 26, 2014.
We Need New Laws to Put a Stop to Revenge Porn, The Independent, Feb. 23, 2014.
Free Speech Elitism: Harassment in not the Price ‘We’ Pay for Free Speech, Huffington Post, Jan. 23, 2014.
The Lawless Internet? Myths and Misconceptions about CDA Section 230, Huffington Post, Dec. 18, 2013.
Combating Non-Consensual Pornography: A Working Paper, SSRN, 2013.
Criminalizing Revenge Porn: A Quick Guide, SSRN, 2013.
Everything but the Gun: Profiling, Prevention, and Crime, Miami Law Magazine, 2013.
Concurring Opinions Blog:
Legal Developments in Revenge Porn: An Interview with Mary Anne Franks, Oct. 10, 2013.
More Thoughts on the Dangerous Fragility of Men, March 4, 2013.
The Dangerous Fragility of Men, Feb. 28, 2013.
Why We Need a Federal Criminal Law Response to Revenge Porn, Feb. 15, 2013.
Why You Can’t Punch a Boxer in the Face When He Asks You for Directions: Consent, Context, and Humanity, Feb. 9, 2013.
Adventures in Victim Blaming: Revenge Porn Edition, Feb. 1, 2013.
The Normative Jurisprudence of Creepshots, (Discussant post for the Online Symposium on Robin West’s Normative Jurisprudence, Oct. 22, 2012.
The Sext Wars: Consent, Secrecy, and Privacy, March 31, 2011.
For the Love of Hate: Why We Have Little to Fear From the Westboro Baptist Church, March 8, 2011.
Franks CV 4
From Tailhook to Tahrir Square, Feb. 28, 2011.
That Obscure Object of Concern: Selective Feminism and the Rise of Anti-Sharia Laws, Feb. 16, 2011.
Victims to the Left of Me, Accusers to the Right: Does Bobby Franklin Know Something We Don’t About Rape? Feb. 6, 2011.
There are No Children in Afghanistan, Feb. 4, 2011.
Prawfsblawg:
A Philosopher and a Psychoanalysis Walk into a Classroom, Redux, Jan. 31, 2011.
A Philosopher and a Psychoanalyst Walk into a Classroom, Jan. 27, 2011.
Please don’t think of the children, or, what we talk about when we talk about bullying, Jan. 24, 2011.
Rethinking Proportional Force, Jan. 17, 2011.
Works in Progress
Enjoying Women: Harm, Pleasure, and the Law (book project; draft available upon request)
PRESENTATIONS
Practicing to Deceive: Law and Misinformation - Symposium: Law and Lies, University of Alabama Law School, Sept. 2014
Non-consensual Pornography and Digital Citizenship - Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Commission on the Status of Women Montreal, Aug. 2014
Legislative Efforts Against Revenge Porn - Privacy Law Scholars Conference, Washington D.C., June 2014
Revenge Porn, Free Speech, and Legal Reform - University of Washington School of Law, May 2014.
Internet Rights and Wrongs - 2014 Superior Court Judges’ Spring Program, Washington, April 2014.
Revenge Porn and Other Cyber Crimes - National Victims of Crime Awareness Week, Canada, April 2014.
Commentator, It’s All About The Process: An Expanded View of Automated Law Enforcement (Lisa Shay et al) - We Robot Conference, University of Miami School of Law, April 2014.
Injury Inequality - Injury as Cultural Practice Symposium, University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law, CA, March 7- 8, 2014.
Revenge Porn and Intimate Partner Violence - Converge, Re-Imagining the Movement to End Gender Violence, University of Miami School of Law, Feb. 7-8, 2014.
A Closer Look at Online ‘Revenge Porn’ - Pennsylvania News Media Association Reporters’ Series, Dec. 5, 2013.
Franks CV 5
On Angela Harris’s “Race and Essentialism in Feminist Legal Theory.” - Festschrift Symposium in Honor of Angela Harris, University of California Berkeley School of Law, CA, Sept. 2013.
Non-Consensual Pornography and the Law - Google Headquarters, Mountain View, CA, Sept. 2013.
Equal Protection and the Internet - Washington 55th Annual Judicial Conference, Wenatchee, WA, Sept. 2013.
The End of Childhood - Clicks and Stones: Cyberbullying, Digital Citizenship and the Challenges of Legal Response, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, Toronto, Canada, May 2013.
A Dangerous Fragility: Masculinity, Vulnerability, and Harm - Law & Society Association, Boston, MA, June 2013. - New Waves Roundtable. London, England, April 2013. - Internal Speaker Series, University of Miami School of Law, March 2013.
Men, Women, and Optimal Violence - New Voices in Legal Theory Roundtable (co-host), University of Miami School of Law, April 2012. - Criminal Justice Center’s Junior Scholars Conference, University of Florida Law School, Gainesville, FL, March 2013.
The Vulnerability Tax - American Association of Law Schools Section on Law and Humanities, New Orleans, LA, Jan. 2013.
The Unequal Burden of Cyber Discrimination - National Association of Women Judges Annual Conference (Panel: Power and Reach of the Internet). Miami, FL, Nov. 2012. - Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting (Panel: Cyber-harassment and Cyber- bullying). Amelia Island, FL, Aug. 2012.
Bias in the Courtroom - Literature and the Law Conference, Marker Law & Mediation and the University of Miami Student Chapter of the J. Reuben Clark Society, Miami, FL, Oct. 26, 2012.
Commentator, Confronting Automated Law Enforcement (Lisa Shay et al) - We Robot Conference, University of Miami School of Law, April 2012.
Commentator, Real Women, Real Rape (Bennett Capers) - Criminal Justice Colloquium, University of Miami School of Law, March 2012.
The Merits of Overreaction: Responding to Aggregate Asymmetries of Force - Law & Society Association Annual Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 2012. - University of Miami Political Science Department Faculty Colloquium, April 2012. - International Conference on the Victims of Crime in the Public and Legal Arenas, Bar Ilan University, Tel Aviv, Israel, March 14, 2012.
‘So Great a Favourite’: Coverture’s Long Shadow - Legal Theory Colloquium, University of Illinois Law School, January 26, 2012. - Law & Society Association Annual Conference, San Francisco, June 2011.
How to Feel Like a Woman, or, Why Punishment is a Drag - New Voices in Gender Studies (competition winner), AALS Annual Conference, Washington DC, Jan. 5, 2012. - Internal Speaker Series, University of Miami Law School, March 23, 2011. - Prawfsfest 8, Arizona State University College of Law, Dec. 2010. - New Voices in Legal Theory Roundtable, St. Louis University, April 23-24, 2010. - Regulation of Family, Sex, and Gender Workshop, University of Chicago Law School, April 14, 2010. Franks CV 6
Gender and the Genocidal Script - Hate Speech, Incitement, and Genocide: 2011 Loyola University Chicago Law Journal Conference, Loyola University Chicago, April 8, 2011.
Myths and Realities of Sexual Assault - University of Arkansas at Monticello, April 2011.
The Case Against Complexity in Globalized Jurisprudence - William Twining Symposium, University of Miami Law School, Jan. 22, 2011.
From Coverture to Conspiracy and Back Again: Women, Coercion, and Crime - Workshop on Criminal Justice, 2011 AALS Annual Meeting, San Francisco. Jan. 6, 2011.
Sexual Harassment 2.0 - Cyberlaw Colloquium, American University Washington College of Law, Washington, D.C., April 30, 2010. - University of Chicago Law School Faculty Workshop, Sept. 17, 2009.
Title VII and Title IX in the Internet Age - Cyber Civil Rights Symposium, Denver University Law Review, Denver, Colorado, Nov. 20, 2009.
Unwilling Avatars: Idealism and Objectification in Cyberspace - Law and Society Association 2009 Annual Meeting. Denver, Colorado, May 28, 2009. - Regulation of Family, Sex, and Gender Workshop, University of Chicago Law School, April 29, 2009.
Law and Moral Choice - Guest presentation in Professor Gregg Bloche’s seminar, Mind and the Law. University of Chicago Law School, April 21, 2009.
Love Your Neighbor (To Death): Freud on Love, Sex, and Death - Lecture at Harvard University, April 1, 2008.
Placing Guantánamo: Torture, Terror, and the Zone of Indistinction - Lecture at Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, May 2007.
Breaking Down and Breaking Away: Film, Feminism, and Fantasy - Lecture at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 2007.
Particulars about the Universal: Gender and Human Rights - Guest lecture for seminar Human Rights: Translating Theory to Practice, Boston College, Boston, Massachusetts, Sept. 2006.
The Philosophy of Misogyny - Guest lecture for Diane Rosenfeld’s course Gender Violence, Law, and Social Justice, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 2005.
Fates Worse Than Death? Race, Gender, and Genocide in Gujarat and Rwanda - Society for the Philosophical Study of Genocide and the Holocaust. Memphis, Tennessee, Oct. 2004.
The Mismeasure of Knowledge: Pedagogy and Postmodernism - Quincy College Faculty Workshops. Quincy, Massachusetts, May 2004.
Desire, Despair – The Language is Leaving: Of Masters, Masochists, and Neighbors - Fifth Annual University of South Carolina Comparative Literature Conference: The Desire of the Analysts: Psychoanalysis and Cultural Criticism in the New Millennium. Columbia, South Carolina, Feb. 2003.
Of Sex and Other Acts: Violence and Resistance in Slavoj Zizek and Judith Butler - International Philosophical Seminar (IPS) XII: Reading Slavoj Zizek’s Ticklish Subject. Alto Adige/Südtirol, Italy, July 2002. Franks CV 7
Sex/Marks/Bodies: Death and the Maiden in South Africa and Afghanistan - InterMedialities, International Association of Philosophy and Literature (IAPL) Conference. Rotterdam, the Netherlands, June 2002.
Controlled Exposure: Courbet’s L'origine du monde and the Containment of the Woman/Object - Sixth Cambridge French Studies Conference: Exposure. Cambridge University, UK, March 2002.
Feminism and the Sex Industry - Forum on International Feminisms. Oxford University, UK, April 2001.
Nothing to see here: Sex, Sight, and the Body in Ingeborg Bachmann and Jean Baudrillard - Institut für Wissenschaft und Kunst (IWK - Institute for Arts and Sciences) Feministische Theorie und Frauenforschung (Feminist Theory and Women’s Studies Lecture Series). Vienna, Austria, April 2001.
Woman Does Not Exist: Fantasy, Otherness, and the Taliban Regime in Afghanistan - Session on Genocide and Radical Evil, Society for the Philosophical Study of Genocide and the Holocaust (SPSGH) at the American Philosophical Association (APA, Eastern) 2000. New York City, New York, Dec. 2000.
Obscene Supplements, or, what we write about when we write about death - PostModern Productions: text power knowledge. Erlangen, Germany, Nov. 2000.
Crimes of Anti-Memory: Women, Rape Warfare, and Genocide - American Philosophical Association (APA) Eastern Division, Boston, MA, Dec. 1999.
SELECTED MEDIA APPEARANCES /QUOTATIONS
(The following is a selection from 100+ media appearances/quotations. Complete list is available upon request.)
Video
Fox News, Action News Investigates Revenge Porn, Feb. 12, 2014.
Bloggingheads.tv’s Interrobang, Online Harassment and Free Speech, Jan. 16, 2014
HuffPost Live, How to Deal with Online Harassment, Jan. 13, 2014
Al Jazeera America’s Consider This, Should websites be held responsible for comments posted by users? Dec. 9, 2013.
The Garland Report, Masculinity in Crisis, Oct. 29, 2013.
Al Jazeera America’s The Stream, Haunted in Cyberspace after Domestic Violence, Oct. 22, 2013
HuffPost Live, Masculinity Throughout the Years, Oct. 21, 2013
AP News, Testimony Hurting Zimmerman Prosecution, July 2, 2013
HuffPost Live, When Evidence Goes Viral, May 24, 2013
The Today Show, 'Revenge Porn’ Victim Fights Back: ‘I Was Terrified’, May 3, 2013
HuffPost Live, Fighting Revenge Porn, April 11, 2013
HuffPost Live, Poppy’s Problem?, March 21, 2013
Viewpoint with Eliot Spitzer, Is Jordan Davis another Trayvon Martin? Nov. 29, 2012
AP News, BP Settlement ‘Drop in the Bucket,’ Nov. 11, 2012 Franks CV 8
AP News, Challenges As ‘Teen Set on Fire’ Trial Nears, June 4, 2012
NBC Nightly News, Trayvon Martin killed by single gunshot fired from ‘intermediate range,’ autopsy shows, May 16, 2012
The Today Show, The Trial of the Girlfriend-Adopting Millionaire, March 6, 2012
Radio
The Social Network Show, The High Cost of Free Speech, March 17, 2014.
Voice of Russia, Law Takes Revenge on ‘Revenge Porn King,’ Jan. 24, 2014.
National Public Radio, In Florida, ‘Revenge Porn’ is a Moving Target, Dec. 4, 2013.
Featured Guest, Your Weekly Constitutional with Stewart Harris, “Revenge Porn,” Nov. 22, 2013
National Public Radio, All Things Considered, Calif. Bans Jilted Lovers From Posting ‘Revenge Porn’ Online, Oct. 2, 2013
Featured guest, National Public Radio’s On Point with Tom Ashbrook, Justice, Social Media, and the Rape Case in Steubenville,March 18, 2013
Featured guest, Radio New Zealand’s Saturday Morning program, Creepshots and Bullying, Sept. 29, 2012
MSNBC, Can women stand their ground? Depends on the target. March 20, 2014.
CBS, Do police take online threats against women seriously? March 18, 2014.
Times Free Press, Revenge porn bill sent to Georgia governor, March 14, 2014.
Al Jazeera America, Mixed Verdict in Dunn Trial Result of ‘Stand Your Ground,’ Experts Say, Feb. 18, 2014.
The New York Times, Florida Self-Defense Law Hung Over Jury in Michael Dunn Trial, Feb. 16, 2014.
Chicago Tribune, Sordid Revenge, Feb. 2, 2014.
Pacific Standard, The Next Civil Rights Issue: Why Women Aren’t Welcome on the Internet, Jan. 6, 2014.
Forbes.com, Creative Revenge Porn Charges Filed in California, Dec. 10, 2013.
Law 360, NY Precedent Opens Door to ‘Revenge Porn’ Crim. Jeopardy, Dec. 9, 2013.
Wall Street Journal, Anti-Revenge Porn Activists Seek Federal Law, Nov. 25, 2013.
US News & World Report, New Federal Legislation Could Take Nip Out of ‘Revenge Porn,’ Nov. 21, 2013.
AP News, ’Revenge Porn’ Victims Demand New Laws, Nov. 15, 2013.
ABA Journal, Victims are taking on ‘revenge porn’ websites for posting pictures they didn’t consent to, Nov. 1, 2013
Think Progress, Maryland is the Latest State to Try to Ban ‘Revenge Porn,’ Oct. 31, 2013.
Washington Post, Anti-‘revenge porn’ group focusing on state bans, for now,” Oct. 30, 2013. Franks CV 9
Politico, States criminalize ‘revenge porn,’ Oct. 30, 2013.
Miami New Times, UM Law Professor Mary Anne Franks Issues Epic Feminist Beatdown on Vice Founder Gavin McInnes, Oct. 24, 2013
Law 360, 1st Amendment Poses Hurdle For NY ‘Revenge Porn’ Bills, Oct. 8, 2013
Time Magazine, Anti-Revenge Porn Legislation Proposed in New York, Oct. 4, 2013
Bloomberg BNA, California Enacts, New York to Propose Criminal Laws Tackling ‘Revenge Porn,’ Oct. 4, 2013, 18 ECLR 2705.
CBS News, ’Revenge porn’ law in California a good first step, but flawed, experts say, Oct. 3, 2013
The Washington Post, California Joins One Woman’s Crusade Against ‘Revenge Porn,’ Oct. 2, 2013
Cosmopolitan, The Women Who Want to Make Revenge Porn Illegal, Sept. 26, 2013
Slate.com, Why Do We Tolerate Revenge Porn? Sept. 25, 2013
Marie Claire, Naked Justice: The Growing Movement to Crack Down on Revenge Porn, Sept. 25, 2013
ABA Journal, How to battle revenge porn? Calif. lawmakers pass law; prof sees no-nude-photo solution, Sept. 25, 2013
The New York Times, Victims Push Laws to End Online Revenge Posts, Sept. 23, 2013
Deseret News, California lawmakers target ‘revenge porn’ but miss, critics say, Sept. 8, 2013
Sacramento Bee, Outlawing ‘revenge porn’ shouldn’t be so difficult, Sept. 7, 2013
New York Magazine, The Crusading Sisterhood of Revenge-Porn Victims, Aug. 29, 2013
Salon.com, Will California Criminalize Revenge Porn? Aug. 27, 2013
AP News, Social Media Infiltrates Zimmerman Trial, July 7, 2013
The Wall Street Journal, Prosecution Rests its Case in Zimmerman Murder Trial, July 5, 2013
The Wall Street Journal, Zimmerman Murder Trial Begins, June 24, 2013
DAME Magazine, The Fight to Criminalize Revenge Porn, April 11, 2013
Salon.com, Criminalizing Revenge Porn, April 6, 2013
ABA Journal, Women fight ‘revenge porn’ in class-action suit against web host and site, Feb. 14, 2013
San Francisco Chronicle, Public Humiliation Over Private Photos, Feb. 8, 2013
The New Yorker, The Story of Amanda Todd, Oct. 18, 2012
The Guardian, Creepshots and revenge porn: how paparazzi culture affects women, Sept. 21, 2012
The Daily Beast, In Florida, it’s often shoot first, learn the law later, May 17, 2012
The Miami Herald, Social Media, Jury Duty a Bad Mix, May 5, 2012
ABC News, Casey Anthony Trial: Her Father Fights Back, June 15, 2011
Franks CV 10
PRESENTATIONS FOR STUDENT PANELS
The Legal Landscape of Reproductive Rights. - University of Miami Medical Students for Choice, University of Miami, Dec. 12, 2013.
A Constitutional Debate: Original Intent v. A Living Constitution. - With Krisanne Hall. American Constitution Society, Federalist Society, University of Miami School of Law, Sept. 17, 2013.
Life Imitating Art: Gender Roles and Sex Stereotypes in Hip-Hop - With Profs. Zanita Fenton, Osamudia James, and Don Jones, Black Students Law Association, Law Students for Reproductive Justice, University of Miami School of Law, Oct. 22, 2013.
Everyday Sexism. - With Prof. Donna Coker. Law Students for Reproductive Justice, University of Miami School of Law, Sept. 5, 2013.
High Capacity: Guns, Gun Rights, and School Violence. - With Alan Gura, Esq. (counsel in Supreme Court cases Heller and McDonald). The American Constitution Society, Federalist Society, and Child Advocacy and Family Law Society, University of Miami School of Law, April 18, 2013.
Issues in Assisted Reproductive Technology. - With Prof. Mary Coombs. Law Students for Reproductive Justice, University of Miami School of Law, Feb. 27, 2013.
The War on Women is a War on Health. - University of Miami Medical Students for Choice, University of Miami, Oct. 31, 2012.
Queer Minds and Queer Bodies: How Law and Medicine Affect the Transgender and Intersex Communities. - SpectrUM, University of Miami, April 10, 2012.
The Death Penalty in the 21st Century. - With Profs. Scott Sundby and Stephanos Bibas (University of Pennsylvania School of Law). American Constitutional Society, Federalist Society, and the Catholic Society, University if Miami School of Law, March 7, 2012.
Cyber-Bullying. - Miami Law Diversity Week, University of Miami School of Law, Jan. 19, 2012.
Asking for It: Rape, Consent, and Victim-Blaming. - Law Students for Reproductive Justice, University if Miami School of Law, Oct. 26, 2011.
Defense of Marriage Act. - With Profs. Mary Coombs, Zanita Fenton, Pat Gudridge, and Frank Valdes. Outlaw, University of Miami School of Law, March 31, 2011.
Anti-Bullying Panel. - American Constitutional Society and Outlaw, University if Miami School of Law, Nov. 10, 2010.
The Criminalization of HIV Transmission. - With Profs. Mary Coombs and Don Jones. HOPE Public Interest Resource Center and Outlaw, University of Miami School of Law, Oct. 26, 2010.
The Constitutionality of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” - With Profs. Charlton Copeland and Don Jones. American Constitution Society, University of Miami School of Law, Oct. 7, 2010.
Confronting Hate Crimes: A Legal Perspective. - University of Miami School of Law & Miami Coalition of Christians and Jews, University if Miami School of Law, Sept. 28, 2010. Franks CV 11
The Future of Guantánamo. - With Prof. Eric Posner. Sponsored by the ACLU (University of Chicago chapter). University of Chicago, March 5, 2009.
Believing Our Eyes: U.S. Policy on Women’s Rights in Iraq and Afghanistan. - Panel on Women and International Armed Conflict. Sponsored by the University of Chicago Law Women’s Association. University of Chicago Law School, Oct. 27, 2008.
OTHER ACTIVITIES
University of Miami Legal Theory Workshop Coordinator, 2013-2014.
University of Miami School of Law Hiring Committee, 2011-2012, 2012-2013.
Faculty Advisor, University of Miami Law Students for Reproductive Justice, 2011-present.
Faculty Advisor, University of Miami Child Advocacy Family Law Society, 2011-present.
Faculty Advisor, Gabrielli Family Law Moot Court Competition (UM Team), 2012.
Judge, University of San Diego National Criminal Procedure Tournament (UM Team), 2011-2012.
Rhodes Selection Committee (District X), 2008 – 2010.
Instructor, Krav Maga, 2011-present.
Profiled in Ocean Drive Magazine (May/June 2013 issue), http://www.ifoldsflip.com/i/122811/43
Named one of Miami New Times’ People of the Year 2013, http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2013-11- 28/news/mary-anne-franks-dangerous-mind/.
Huffington Post Contributor, 2014-present.