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This article is about the lawyer and scholar. For the tennis player, see Michelle Anderson (tennis).
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Michelle J. Anderson
Born
Michelle Jeanette Anderson

(1967-01-30) January 30, 1967 (age 57)
Valdosta, Georgia, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
EducationUniversity of California, Santa Cruz (BA)
Yale University (JD)
Georgetown University (LLM)
OccupationPresident of Brooklyn College
PredecessorKaren L. Gould

Michelle J. Anderson (born January 30, 1967) is an American lawyer who is the 10th President of Brooklyn College. She is a scholar on rape law.[1]

Education

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Anderson graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 1989 with a Bachelor of Arts with honors in community studies as a resident of Merrill College. She won the Chancellor's Award for outstanding academic achievement.[2]

While a UC Santa Cruz student, Anderson spent eighteen months "bleaching, dieting, training, tanning, and feigning fundamentalist beliefs to get into the running" for the Miss California beauty pageant, becoming Miss Santa Cruz County. During the televised pageant, just prior to the announcement of a winner, Anderson unveiled a banner that read "pageants hurt all women."[3][4][5]

She attended Yale Law School, where she was notes editor of the Yale Law Journal. Anderson was an intern in the chambers of Judge Ellen Bree Burns on the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut. She worked with Harold Koh, Michael Ratner, and students in the Yale Law School International Human Rights Clinic on litigation on behalf of Haitian refugees.[6] Anderson was also a visiting scholar at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Academic career

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After graduating from Yale Law School in 1994, Anderson clerked on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit for Judge William A. Norris. After clerking, she worked as a Fellow and Supervising Attorney at the Appellate Litigation Clinic[7] at Georgetown University Law Center from 1995-97. There, she also earned a Master of Laws in Advocacy.[8]

Anderson joined the faculty of Villanova University School of Law in 1998, where she taught Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Feminist Legal Theory, and Children and the Law for eight years, earning top rankings as a professor. She has been a visiting professor at Yale Law School, the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, and Georgetown University Law Center.[9]

She served as Dean at CUNY School of Law from 2006-2016. Under Anderson's leadership, CUNY Law moved from a converted junior high school in Flushing, Queens, to a new, LEED gold-certified building in Long Island City.[10][11] Under her leadership, CUNY Law achieved excellent national recognition, including top rankings for public interest law, clinical programs, and diversity of the student body and faculty. During her tenure, CUNY Law also launched the Pipeline to Justice Program,[12] the Incubator Program,[13] the Community & Economic Development Clinic,[14] the Center for Urban Environmental Reform,[15] the Center on latino/a Rights and Equality,[16] and the Sorensen Center for International Peace and Justice.[17]

Anderson was a member of the New York City Bar Association's Task Force on New Lawyers in a Changing Profession.[18] She has written on the importance of matching underemployed attorneys with low and moderate-income communities that have great need for legal services they can afford.[19] Along with the New York City Bar Association and some of the city's largest law firms, CUNY Law launched the Court Square Law Project in 2016.[20]

She has been called "one of the legal academy's most perceptive and prolific legal scholars in the area" of sexual assault.[21] Anderson's work traces the history and evolution of rape law and contrasts it with the reform surrounding campus sexual assault.[22] Her scholarship covers the resistance requirement in rape law,[23] rape shield laws,[24] marital rape laws,[25] the corroboration requirement, prompt complaint requirement, and cautionary instructions in rape law,[26] campus sexual assault codes,[26] the place of prostitution and similar prior sexual history in rape cases,[27] and the legal impact of negative social attitudes toward acquaintance rape victims.[28] She has written about sex education's influence on cultural norms of gender in sexuality,[29] the sexual assault of political detainees under South African apartheid,[30] and the traditional constructs of stranger rape and their impact on rape jurisprudence[31] She has also written a new model for how to define rape legally, which focuses on negotiating desires and boundaries.[32] In 2015, Anderson engaged in an "Intelligence Squared" debate on campus sexual assault with Jed Rubenfeld, Jeannie Suk, and Stephen Schulhofer.

Anderson's research has been published in the Yale Law Journal, Boston University Law Review, George Washington Law Review, Hastings Law Journal, Rutgers Law Review, Southern California Law Review, and University of Illinois Law Review.

President of Brooklyn College

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Anderson became the 10th President of Brooklyn College in August 2016.[33] In her first year as president, Anderson invited Bernie Sanders by writing him a letter and telling him to “come home.” [34]

Honors

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Anderson is a member of the American Law Institute,[35] an Adviser to the ALI's Model Penal Code: Sexual Assault and Related Offenses Project,[36] and a Consultant to its Project on Sexual & Gender-Based Misconduct on Campus.[37] She is a former Policy Chair of the National Alliance to End Sexual Violence.[38]

In 2007, the Feminist Press gave Anderson the Susan Rosenberg Zalk Award. In 2011, Education Update newspaper gave her the Distinguished Leader in Education Award.[39] In 2013, the Center for Women in Government and Civil Society at the University of Albany gave her the Public Service Leadership Award.[40] In 2014, the New York City Bar Association gave her the Diversity & Inclusion Champion Award.[41] In 2016, City & State gave her an Above and Beyond Award for Women of Public and Civic Mind. In 2017, Brooklyn Legal Services gave her a Champion of Justice Award.

References

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  1. ^ Bronner, Ethan (24 August 2012). "Definition of Rape is Shifting Rapidly". The New York Times. Retrieved 2015-08-17.
  2. ^ "M.J. Anderson : CV" (PDF). Law.cuny.edu. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-02-26. Retrieved 2015-08-17.
  3. ^ "The Great Pretender : Always an Outsider, She Bluffed Her Way Inside a Beauty Pageant; That's When Things Got Ugly". Los Angeles Times. 1988-06-16. Retrieved 2020-09-05.
  4. ^ Collins, Lauren. "Miss America's History-Makers and Rule-Breakers". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2020-09-05.
  5. ^ Ap (1988-06-16). "Beauty Contestant Denounces the 'Indignities'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-05-17.
  6. ^ Goldstein, Brandt (2005). Storming the Court: How a Band of Yale Law Students Sued the President-and Won: Brandt Goldstein: 9780743230018: Amazon.com: Books. Scribner. ISBN 0743230019.
  7. ^ "Appellate Litigation Clinic — Georgetown Law". Law.georgetown.edu. 2014-10-14. Retrieved 2015-08-17.
  8. ^ "City University of New York School of Law at Queens College". Martindale.com. Archived from the original on 2015-09-08. Retrieved 2015-08-17.
  9. ^ "Michelle J. Anderson - Faculty Directory". Archived from the original on 2014-10-31. Retrieved 2014-11-03.
  10. ^ Altman, Alexa (2012-11-01). "CUNY law school opens in LIC". QueensCourier.com. Retrieved 2015-08-17.
  11. ^ "CUNY Law School Will Move To Long Island City | www.qgazette.com | Queens Gazette". www.qgazette.com. 2009-10-21. Retrieved 2015-08-17.
  12. ^ "Pipeline to Justice - Social Justice Initiatives - Academics - CUNY School of Law". Law.cuny.edu. Retrieved 2015-08-17.
  13. ^ "Incubator for Justice - Community Legal Resource Network - CUNY School of Law". Law.cuny.edu. 2013-09-05. Retrieved 2015-08-17.
  14. ^ "Community & Economic Development - Academics - CUNY School of Law". Law.cuny.edu. Retrieved 2015-08-17.
  15. ^ "Center for Urban Environmental Reform".
  16. ^ CUNY School of Law. "Center on Latino and Latina Rights and Equality".
  17. ^ "Sorensen Center for International Peace and Justice - Academics - CUNY School of Law". Law.cuny.edu. 2015-03-06. Retrieved 2015-08-17.
  18. ^ "New York City Bar Association - Task Force on New Lawyers in a Changing Profession". Nycbar.org. Retrieved 2015-08-17.
  19. ^ "ABA Task Force on the Future of Legal Education" (PDF). Americanbar.org. Retrieved 2015-08-17.
  20. ^ "Court Square Law Project".
  21. ^ "CrimProf Blog". Lawprofessors.typepad.com. Retrieved 2015-08-17.
  22. ^ Yale Law Journal – Campus Sexual Assault Adjudication and Resistance to Reform
  23. ^ "Articles: Reviving Resistance in Rape Law - Michelle J. Anderson - Volume 1998 - Number 4 « University of Illinois Law Review". Illinoislawreview.org. Archived from the original on 2015-08-26. Retrieved 2015-08-17.
  24. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-05-18. Retrieved 2018-09-21.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  25. ^ Anderson, Michelle (August 2003). ""Marital Immunity, Intimate Relationships, and Improper Inferences: A N" by Michelle J. Anderson". Working Paper Series. Digitalcommons.law.villanova.edu. Retrieved 2015-08-17.
  26. ^ a b Michelle J. Anderson. "The Legacy of the Prompt Complaint Requirement, Corroboration Requirement, and Cautionary Instructions on Campus Sexual Assault" (PDF). Ncdsv.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-07. Retrieved 2015-08-17.
  27. ^ "NCJRS Abstract - National Criminal Justice Reference Service". Ncjrs.gov. Retrieved 2015-08-17.
  28. ^ "view content".
  29. ^ Michelle J. Anderson (January 2010). ""Sex Education and Rape" by Michelle J. Anderson". Michigan Journal of Gender & Law. 17 (1). Repository.law.umich.edu: 83–110. Retrieved 2015-08-17.
  30. ^ Anderson, Michelle J. "1 Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law 1999-2000 Rape in South Africa". Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law. 1. Heinonline.org: 789. Retrieved 2015-08-17.
  31. ^ Anderson, Michelle (2012-02-02). ""All-American Rape" by Michelle J. Anderson". St. John's Law Review. 79 (3). Scholarship.law.stjohns.edu. Retrieved 2015-08-17.
  32. ^ Michelle J. Anderson. "Articles Negotiating Sex" (PDF). Lawreview.usc.edu. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-02-05. Retrieved 2015-08-17.
  33. ^ "President Anderson's Biography".
  34. ^ "Bernie's Back In Brooklyn; Speaks at Brooklyn College Commencement". Bklyner. 2017-05-30. Retrieved 2022-05-10.
  35. ^ Institute, The American Law. "Members". American Law Institute. Retrieved 2024-04-29.
  36. ^ "current Projects". Archived from the original on September 15, 2014. Retrieved December 9, 2014.
  37. ^ The American Law Institute. "Project on Sexual and Gender-Based Misconduct on Campus: Procedural Frameworks and Analysis". American Law Institute.
  38. ^ "End Sexual Violence.org — NAESV". Endsexualviolence.org. Retrieved 2015-08-17.
  39. ^ Baum, Joan. "Education Update's Outstanding Educators of the Year Garner Awards at the Harvard Club". Education Update. Retrieved 2015-08-17.
  40. ^ "Center for Women in Government & Civil Society - Women in Public Service Leadership Awards". Albany.edu. Retrieved 2015-08-17.
  41. ^ "New York City Bar Association - City Bar Announces 2014 Diversity & Inclusion Champion Award Winners | 44th Street Blog44th Street Blog". Nycbar.org. 2014-04-28. Retrieved 2015-08-17.
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Preceded by President of Brooklyn College
2016–present 		Succeeded by
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