KATHERINE M. FRANKE
Professor of Law
Director, Program in Gender and Sexuality Law
Program in Gender and Sexuality Law Blog

(212) 854-0061
(212) 854-7946 fax
kfranke@law.columbia.edu

Assistant: Rachel Jones, rachel.jones@law.columbia.edu, 854-7594

Recent Publications

Courses Taught:

Critical Legal Thought
Seminar in Legal Scholarship
Federal Civil Rights Law
Feminist Theory Workshop
Gender Justice
Law & Culture
Feminist Legal Theory
Gender and Development
Torts
Jurisprudence of Identity
Legal History Research Seminar - Reconstruction
 

Contemporary Legal Problems - Bayview Correctional Facility

Columbia Law Women's Association Reading Group

EDUCATION

B.A., Barnard College, Philosophy, 1981 magna cum laude; J.D., Northeastern University School of Law, 1986; LL.M., Yale Law School, 1993; J.S.D., Yale Law School 1998, Dissertation: Because of Sex.

EMPLOYMENT

Professor of Law, Columbia University School of Law 2000 - present;
Vice Dean, Columbia University School of Law 2002 - 2004;
Associate Professor of Law, Fordham Law School 1997–00;
Associate Professor of Law, University of Arizona College of Law 1995–97;
Executive Director, National Lawyers Guild 1990 - 1991;
Supervising Attorney, New York City Commission on Human Rights 1987-1990;
Founder and Director, AIDS and Employment Project, San Francisco, CA 1986-1987.

FELLOWSHIPS/HONORS

Distinguished Visiting Professor, Institute for Gender and Women Studies, American University in Cairo May 2008
Fellow, Law and Public Affairs Program, Princeton University 2007-2008

COMMUNITY/PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Editorial Board
Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, Member of Advisory Board;
Law and Society Association, Member;
Society of American Law Teachers, Member;
American Society for Legal History, Member.

Books

Emancipation Approximation - book-length treatment of the precarious state freed people occupied after military emancipation: not enslaved, not free, rather contained in a regulated space I call freed-dom whose contours were largely defined by law.

Articles                 

Longing for Loving, 76 Ford. L.Rev. 2685 (2008)

Gendered Subjects of Transitional Justice, 15 Colum. J. Gender & L. 813 (2006)

The Politics of Same-Sex Marriage Politics,15 Colum. J. Gender & L. 236 (2006)

The Domesticated Liberty of Lawrence v. Texas, 104 Colum.L.Rev. (2004)

Sexual Tensions of Post-Empire, 33 Studies in Law, Politics and Society 63 (2004)
            link to streaming video of Egyptian Security Court sentencing of the Cairo 52

On Discipline and Canon, 12 Colum.J. Gender & Law 639 (2003)

Taking Care, 76 Chi-Kent L.Rev. 1541 (2001)

Rosa v. Park West Bank: Do Clothes Really Make the Man?, 7 Mich.J.Gen.L. 141 (2001)

Theorizing Yes: An Essay on Feminism, Law & Desire, 101 Colum. L.Rev. 181 (2001)

The Uses of History in Struggles for Racial Justice: Colonizing the Past and Managing Memory, 47 U.C.L.A. L.Rev. 1673 (2000)

Becoming A Citizen: Post-Bellum Regulation of African American Marriage, 11 Yale J. of Law & the Humanities 251 (1999)

Putting Sex To Work,75 U.Denver L.Rev. 108 (1998)

Reprinted in, Left Legalism/Left Critique (Janet Halley and Wendy Brown eds. 2002)

Gender, Sex, Agency and Discrimination: A Reply to Professor Abrams, 83 Cornell L.Rev. 1245 (1998)

What’s Wrong With Sexual Harassment?, 49 Stan.L.Rev. 691 (1997)

Reprinted in, 13 Civil Rights Litigation and Attorney Fees Annual Handbook (Saltzman ed. 1998)

What Does A White Woman Look Like: Racing and Erasing in Law, 74 Texas L.Rev. 1231 (1996)

Reprinted in, Critical White Studies: Looking Behind the Mirror (Delgado & Stefancic eds. 1997)

The Central Mistake of Sex Discrimination Law: The Disaggregation of Sex from Gender, 144 U.Penn.L.Rev. 1 (1995)

Cunning Stunts: From Hegemony to Desire, A Review of Madonna's Sex, 20 N.Y.U.Rev.L.Soc.Chg. 549 (1993-1994)

Women in the AIDS Epidemic: A Portrait of Unmet Needs, 9 St. Louis Public L. Rev. 519 (1990) with Arlene Zarembka

Turning Issues Upside Down: Reproductive Rights in the Era of AIDS, in AIDS: The Women (1988).

Homosexuals, Torts, and Dangerous Things, in Legal Canons (Jack Balkin and Sanford Levinson eds. forthcoming Summer 2000 New York University Press)

Homosexuals, Torts and Dangerous Things, review of William N. Eskridge, Jr., and Nan D. Hunter Sexuality and the Law, and William B. Rubenstein, Cases and Materials on Sexual Orientation and the Law, 106 Yale L. J. 2661 (1997)

Working Papers

Legal Aspects of Gender Assignment (2002)

Briefs