About
Publications
Website: Teaching and Learning
Frances Lee Ansley
Professor Emeritus, College of Law Distinguished Professor of Law
B.A., 1969, Harvard/Radcliffe College
J.D., 1979, University of Tennessee
LL.M., 1988, Harvard Law School
Frances Ansley
Courses Taught
- Discrimination
- Community Legal Education
- Public Interest Law
- Property
- and Community Partnership Development
About
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.