Announcing Cary Franklin as McDonald/Wright Chair of Law and Faculty Director of the Williams Institute
We are pleased to announce that Cary Franklin has joined UCLA Law as the McDonald/Wright Chair of Law and Faculty Director of the Williams Institute. Previously, Cary was the W.H. Francis, Jr. Professor of Law at the University of Texas and the Florence Rogatz Visiting Professor of Law at Yale Law School.
Cary teaches in the areas of constitutional law, anti-discrimination law, and legal history. Her work examines the historical development of conceptions of equality in American law and how this history influences the shape of contemporary legal protections in the contexts of sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, and race.
Her 2012 article, Inventing the “Traditional Concept” of Sex Discrimination in the Harvard Law Review was cited in the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Bostock v. Clayton County, which found Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.
Cary's work has appeared in numerous publications, including the Harvard Law Review, the Michigan Law Review, the NYU Law Review, the Supreme Court Review, the Virginia Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal.Her 2010 article, The Anti-Stereotyping Principle in Constitutional Sex Discrimination Law in the NYU Law Review was awarded the Kathryn T. Preyer Prize by the American Society for Legal History.
Cary received a B.A. in English and History, summa cum laude, from Yale University and a D.Phil. in English from the University of Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. After completing her doctorate, she received a J.D. from Yale Law School, where she served as an Articles Editor on the Yale Law Journal. She clerked for Sonia Sotomayor, then of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and a Ribicoff Fellow at Yale Law School.
The McDonald/Wright Chair of Law was made possible by philanthropists and Williams Institute Founders Council members John McDonald and Rob Wright. In 2007, their generous gift to UCLA Law endowed the first-ever academic chair in the U.S. focused on sexual orientation and gender identity law and public policy. The chair is held by a member of the faculty at UCLA Law who is engaged in the work of the Williams Institute.
Please join us in welcoming Cary to the Williams Institute!
