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Frances Lee Ansley College of Law Distinguished Professor of Law Discrimination, Community Legal Education, Public Interest Law, Property, and Community Partnership Development Professor Ansley's expertise reaches beyond the law school and into the community, where she has often found ways to unite her scholarship, teaching and service in collaborative projects aimed at understanding and addressing problems of social justice. Professor Ansley speaks frequently and is widely published and reprinted in the areas of civil rights, labor rights, impacts of globalization, and issues of race and gender, with a special interest in the Southeastern U.S. and the evolving economic and cultural relations between the U.S. and Latin America. She is a practitioner of "the scholarship of teaching and learning" and was part of the 2000-2001 cohort of interdisciplinary participants in the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, as reflected in the website she and Cathy Cochran of the UT Law Library faculty created on "Law Student Field Projects in Community Law." Professor Ansley's articles have appeared in a number of law reviews, including California, Colorado, Cornell, Georgetown, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee, and she has contributed chapters to several interdisciplinary books on issues of race, gender, poverty, and economic restructuring. In addition to her legal scholarship, Professor Ansley is co-author of a memoir concerning a 1989 coal miners' strike in southwest Virginia, co-editor/author of an oral history of labor struggles in several East Tennessee coal mining communities, and co-author of the original edition of Our Bodies, Our Selves. She currently serves as principal humanities adviser to a video documentary on impacts of globalization in East Tennessee, directed and produced by independent videomaker Anne Lewis. Professor Ansley received the 2003 Carden Award for Outstanding Achievement in Scholarship, the Marilyn V. Yarbrough Faculty Award for Writing Excellence in 1994, and the W. Allen Separk Award for Superior Achievement in Scholarship in 1993 and 2002. Professor Ansley has a particular interest in lawyering for and with organizations that are working to bring about grassroots, bottom-up social change. She has provided pro bono representation, has done legal and empirical research, and has worked as a community legal educator with a range of groups over the years, sometimes together with her students. Publications Books & Chapters: Local Contact Points with Global Divides: Labor Rights and Immigrant Rights as Sites for Cosmopolitanism Legality, in Law and Globalization from Below: Towards a Cosmopolitan Legality (Boaventura de Sousa Santos & César A. Rodríguez, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2005). Constructing Citizenship Without a License: The Struggle of Undocumented Immigrants in the U.S. for Livelihoods and Recognition, in Meanings and Expressions of Rights and Citizenship (Naila Kabeer & John Gaventa, eds., Zed Press, 2005). Who Counts? The Case for Participatory Research, in Laboring Below the Line: The New Ethnography of Poverty, Low-Wage Work, and Survival in the New Economy (Frank Munger, ed., Russell Sage, 2002). Recognizing Race in the American Legal Canon, in Legal
Canons (J.M. Balkin and Sanford Levinson,
eds., New York University Press, New York, 2000). Articles: Book Review, _____ Journal of Appalachian Studies ____ (forthcoming Going On-Line with Justice Pedagogy: Four Ways of Looking at a Web Site (Villanova Law Review, 2005)(with Cathy Cochran). Recent Professional Presentations and Service Co-organizer of a conference on "The New Latino Immigration to Tennessee: Speaker on panels, "Reports from the Field on Immigrant Worker Organizing" Speaker for Humanities Tennessee, in connection with the Smithsonian Speaker on "The H2-A Guestworker Program as a Template for Immigration Law Speaker on "Mexican Guestworkers: Opportunities for Transnational Speaker on panel, "Identity, Practice Setting and Political Commitment," Speaker at faculty colloquium, American University Washington College of Speaker on panel, "Teaching Outside the Classroom," at a conference on Presenter on "Justice-Seeking Networks as Channels for Going Public with Co-presenter with Cathy Cochran on panel, "Critical Pedagogies," at Presenter on "Braiding Stories, Bending Law" at Tenth Annual Pedagogy & Moderator of panel on "Property in a Global Arena: The Speaker at concluding plenary on "Globalization and Markets: Implications Speaker on panel, "Identity, Practice Setting and Political Commitment," at conference on Cause Lawyering and Social Movements, UCLA School of Law, Los Angeles, March 2005 (with Brenda Blom and Cory Shdaimah). Speaker at faculty colloquium, American University Washington College of Law, talk on "Mexican Guestworkers in Carolina del Norte: Social Justice Lawyering on Transnational Ground," Washington, D.C., February 2005. Speaker on panel, "Teaching Outside the Classroom," at a conference on Class in the Classroom, sponsored by the Society of American Law Teachers, Las Vegas, Nevada, October 2004. Presenter on "Justice-Seeking Networks as Channels for Going Public with the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning," at the 4th Annual International Conference on the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning, convened by the Educational Development Centre, City University of London, May 2004. Co-presenter with Cathy Cochran on panel, "Critical Pedagogies," at LatCrit IX conference, Malvern Pennsylvania, April 2004. Presenter on "Braiding Stories, Bending Law" at Tenth Annual Pedagogy & Theater of the Oppressed Conference, Omaha, Nebraska, April 2004. Moderator of panel on "Property in a Global Arena: The Supernationalization of Property Processes," a program of the Section on Property Law at the annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools, Atlanta, Georgia, January 2004 (with speakers Graeme Dinwoodie, Thomas Merrill, Patrick Randolph, and David Schneiderman). Speaker at concluding plenary on "Globalization and Markets: Implications for the Profession and for Progressive Practice," at conference at Northeastern University School of Law on "Ideology and Strategy: Progressive Lawyering, Globalization & Markets, Boston, November 2003 (with Michael Hertz, Deena Hurwitz, James Rowan, Peter Enrich, and Ingrid Nava). Presenter at workshop on "Meanings and Expressions of Citizenship" convened by the Democratic Research Centre on Citizenship, Participantion and Accountability and the University of the Western Cape, Stellenbosch, South Africa, June 2003. Speaker on panel, "Social Justice Perspectives on Globalization and Technology" at a conference on information technology and globalization at Santa Clara University, April 24, 2003. Pro Bono & Public Interest Work Professor Ansley's pro bono and public interest law activities closely track her scholarly research and her teaching practice. She is particularly interested in ways that lawyers can strengthen grassroots groups and support the efforts of such groups to identify their own problems, define their own agendas, and carry out bottom-up research, education, organizing and advocacy. Some groups that she has worked with over the years, sometimes in collaboration with her students, include: Appalshop Community Arts Center in Whitesburg, Kentucky Austin East High School, English Department Carpetbag Theater and its Knoxville American Festival Project Catholic Hispanic Ministries Church Street United Methodist Church Circle Modern Dance Citizens for Police Review Commission on Religion in Appalachia Cumberland Mountain Film Cooperative East Tennessee Interfaith Network for Worker Justice Federation for Industrial Retention and Renewal Highlander Research and Education Center Jefferson County High School, Mock Trial Program East Tennessee Jobs with Justice Latinos Unidos Legal Aid of East Tennessee Lisa Ross Birth & Women's Center Muscular Dystrophy Association National Conference for Communities and Justice Project Change Regional Economic Justice Network Save Our Cumberland Mountains Solutions to Issues of Concern to Knoxvillians Southern Migrant Legal Services Tanasi Girl Scout Council Tennessee Committee for Occupational Safety & Health Tennessee Economic Renewal Network Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition UTK Community Partnership Center Union of Needletrades Industrial, and Textile Employees (UNITE) United Campus Workers West High School, SOcial Sciences Department YWCA of Knoxville Selected Achievements and Affiliations 2003 Carden Award for Outstanding Achievement in Scholarship, University of Tennessee College of Law. 2000 Carnegie Fellow, Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Honorable Mention, Ernest A. Lynton Award for Faculty Professional Service and Academic Outreach, New England Resource Center for Higher Education. Member of Advisory Committee for Status of Women in Tennessee, a report prepared by the Institute for Women's Policy Research and the Tennessee Economic Council on Women, Fall 2000. Chancellor's Award for Extraordinary Community Service, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Finalist, Knoxville YWCA Women of Achievement Award, 1995. Marilyn V. Yarbrough Faculty Award for Writing Excellence, 1994. W. Allen Separk Award for Superior Achievement in Scholarship, 1993 and 2002. Member, Order of the Coif. Member, Phi Kappa Phi. Works in Progress Research on the use of grassroots community placements as a teaching strategy in legal education, conducted as part of an interdisciplinary undertaking with the Carnegie Academy on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Principal humanities advisor to Anne Lewis, independent videomaker, for documentary on immigration and other impacts of globalization in Appalachia. On-going research on domestic and international impacts of globalization on low- and moderate-income people in the United States and elsewhere, and the role of law in exacerbating or mediating those impacts. June 1, 2006 |
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