Franke, Katherine

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Name (Latin)
Franke, Katherine
Associated country
United States
Other associated place
New York (N.Y.)
Field of activity
Marriage law Same-sex marriage Gay rights Civil rights Human rights
Associate group
Columbia University. School of Law
Center for Constitutional Rights (New York, N.Y.)
Occupation
Law teachers College teachers Authors
Associated Language
eng
Gender
female
Fuller form of name
Katherine M.
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Other Identifiers

VIAF: 315985123
Wikidata: Q110623968
Library of congress: n 2015031259
Sources of Information
  • Wedlocked: the perils of marriage equality: how African Americans and gays mistakenly thought the right to marry would set them free, 2015:title page (Katherine Franke) dust jacket (Katherine Franke is Sulzbacher Professor of Law and director of the Center for Gender and Sexuality Law at Columbia University; she is chair of the Board of Directors of the Center for Constitutional Rights)
  • Columbia University School of Law website, December 14, 2015:faculty (Katherine M. Franke)

Wikipedia description:

Katherine M. Franke is an American legal scholar who specializes in gender and sexuality law. She began her legal career as a civil right litigator, then worked at the New York City Commission on Human Rights as a supervising attorney before becoming an executive director of the National Lawyers Guild. Franke also taught at the University of Arizona, followed by Fordham University School of Law before joining the faculty of Columbia Law School where she was the James L. Dohr Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. In January 2024, during the Gaza War and the related student protests, Franke raised concerns about Israeli students coming to Columbia “right out of their military service” in response to an incident on campus. Following an external investigation, in January 2025, Franke said she had been effectively terminated from Columbia although the university characterized it as retirement.

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