Frances Lee Ansley
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
Selected Publications
Books & Chapters:
Global Connections and Local Receptions: Latino Immigration to the Southeastern United States (Fran Ansley and Jon Shefner, eds., forthcoming University of Tennessee Press, 2009).
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).
Putting the Pieces Together: Tennessee Women Find the Global Economy
in Their Own Backyards, in Women Working
the NAFTA Food Chain:
Women, Food
& Globalization (Deborah Barndt,
ed., Second Story Press, Toronto, 1999).
What’s the Globe Got to Do with It?, in Hard
Labor: Poor
Women and Work
in the Post-Welfare
Era (Joel Handler & Lucie White eds.,
M.E. Sharpe, Armonk, New York, 1999).
Co-author with Susan Williams, Southern Women and Southern Borders
on the Move: Tennessee Workers Explore the New International Division
of Labor, in Neither Separate
nor Equal: Women,
Race and Class
in the U.S. South (Barbara Smith
ed., Temple University Press, 1999).
Articles:
Second Panel: Labor Markets, Income Inequity and Globalization, 15 Georgetown J. Poverty Law & Policy 475 (2009)(part of transcript of conference on "Wealth Inequity and the Eroding Middle Class," co-sponsored by the University of North Carolina Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity and the American Constitution Society, November 2007; Ansley's remarks at 490-498.
Educating Workers about Labor Rights and Global Wrongs through Documentary Film, 41 Suffolk U. L. Rev. 715 (2008).
Doing Policy from Below: Worker Solidarity and the Prospects for Immigration Reform, 41 Cornell J. Int’l Law 101 (2008).
Thinking Back on Fighting Back in Appalachia: A Tribute to Steve Fisher, 34 Appalachian Journal 422-428 (2007).
Book Review, 11 Journal of Appalachian Studies Nos. 1 & 2 (Spring/Fall 2005)(reviewing A Strike Like No Other Strike: Law and Resistance during
the Pittston Coal Strike of 1989-1990 (2002) by Richard A. Brisbin, Jr.)
Going On-Line with Justice Pedagogy: Four Ways of Looking at a Web Site (Villanova Law Review, 2005)(with Cathy Cochran).
Inclusive Boundaries and Other (Im)possible Paths Toward Community
Development in a Global World, 150 U. Penn.
L. Rev. 353 (2001); excerpts reprinted in Social Justice: Professionals,
Communities and Law (Martha Mahoney, John Calmore, and Stephanie Wildman eds. 2003).
Borders, 78 Denver U.L. Rev. 965 (Part of LatCrit V Symposium) (2001).
Teaching Across Race, Class and Gender: The New Immigration in Tennessee, Center News, Center for Research on Women,
University of Memphis, Fall 1999, p. 9.
Rethinking Law in Globalizing Labor Markets, 1 U. Penn. J. Lab. & Empl.
Law 369 (1998).
Classifying Race, Racializing Class, 68 Colo.
L. Rev. 1001 (1997).
Co-author with John Gaventa, Researching for Democracy and Democratizing
Research, Change, Jan/Feb 1997, pp.
46-53. Reprinted in Doing Community-Based Research: A Reader (Danny Murphy and Madeleine Scammel, eds., Amherst, MA: Loka Institure,
1997).
The Gulf of Mexico, the Academy, and Me, 78 Soundings
69 (1995).
Starting with the Students: Lessons from Popular Education, 4 S.
Cal. Rev.
L. & Women’s Stud. 7 (1994).
Standing Rusty and Rolling Empty: Law, Poverty, and America’s Eroding
Industrial Base, 81 Georgetown L.J.
1757 (1993). Excerpts reprinted in Poverty
Law: Theory
and Practice (Julie Nice and Louise
Trubek, eds., 1997).
A Civil Rights Agenda for the Year 2000, 59 Tenn.
L. Rev. 593 (1992). Excerpts
reprinted in Critical White Studies (Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic,
eds., 1997).
North American Free Trade Agreement: The Public Debate, 22 Ga.
J. Int’l Comp.
L. 329 (1992).
U.S.-Mexico Free Trade from the Bottom: A Postcard from the Border,
1 Tex. J. Women
and Law 193 (1992).
Race and the Core Curriculum in Legal Education, 79 Calif.
L. Rev. 1511 (1991). Excerpts reprinted in Critical White
Studies (Richard Delgado
and Jean Stefancic, eds., 1997).
Stirring the Ashes: Race, Class and the Future of Civil Rights Scholarship,
74 Cornell L. Rev.
993 (1989). Excerpts reprinted in Critical
White Studies (Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, eds., 1997).