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 Kris Franklin
Professor of Law
Director, Academic Skills Program
Long a non-conformist and an activist in the political realm, Kris Franklin brings a talent for creative and unconventional thinking to her teaching of legal analysis and to her leadership of the Academic Skills Program.
Professor Franklin came to New York Law School from NYU Law School, where she helped develop and shape the current curriculum in critical legal thinking in its Lawyering Program. At New York Law School, she teaches Principles of Legal Analysis and Applied Analysis to the first-year class and continues to experiment with pioneering methods of teaching lawyering skills.
Professor Franklin has become an acknowledged expert in the fields of legal pedagogy and academic support. She is the founder of the New York Area Academic Support Colloquium. She is also frequently asked to speak about her work in these fields, and has served two terms on the Board of the AALS Section on Academic Support.
Professor Franklin first became involved in legal academia as a law student, where she served as an Editor-in-Chief of the New York University Review of Law & Social Change. But to guide her teaching she also draws on her four years as a staff attorney working with a diverse clientele in the Brooklyn Office of the Legal Aid Society. There she focused on housing and family law, conducting numerous trials, hearings, and appellate arguments, she also litigated public benefits and immigration cases.
Ever an activist—working on grass roots and direct action campaigns from her undergraduate years through her professional practice and her present career in academia—Professor Franklin was a union delegate for the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys and a member of the ALAA Bargaining Committee. “Outside of my professional work, I remain a politically committed activist in the areas of lesbian and gay rights, reproductive freedom, racial and economic justice, and the death penalty,” she explains.
She has also been active in numerous professional organizations, serving on several committees of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and Board of Directors of the Pratt Area Community Council.
Professor Franklin’s scholarship focuses on the rhetorics of legal decision-making. Her published works, both academic and non-academic, often mirror her political interests in gender roles, diverse family structures, and sexual identity.
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Contact information:
T: 212-431-2353
F: 212-431-8193
E: kfranklin@nyls.edu
O: A802
Program Coordinator:
Sonja Davis
T: 212-431-2363
E: sdavis@nyls.edu
O: A-Building, 8th floor
Education:
Yale, B.A. 1989 cum laude
New York University, J.D. 1992, (Reviewer of Law & Social Change, Editor in Chief)
Public Interest Law Foundation Fellowship, 1990.
Former staff attorney in Legal Aid Society Brooklyn Office. Scholarship focuses on rigorous analysis of rhetoric of legal decision making. Political activist with interest in gender roles, diverse family structures, and sexual identity. Served on Committee on Sex and the Law, and Lesbian and Gay Rights Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.
Courses:
Advanced Legal Writing
Applied Analysis
Negotiating, Counseling, and Interviewing
Principles of Legal Analysis
At New York Law School since 2002.
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