{{Short description|American lawyer and scholar}} {{About|the lawyer and scholar|the tennis player|Michelle Anderson (tennis)}} {{Distinguish|Michele Anderson (disambiguation){{!}}Michele Anderson}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Michelle J. Anderson | office = 10th President of Brooklyn College | term_start = August 1, 2016 | term_end = | predecessor = Karen L. Gould | successor = | birth_name = Michelle Jeanette Anderson | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1967|1|30}} | birth_place = Valdosta, Georgia, U.S. | education = University of California, Santa Cruz (BA)<br>Yale University (JD)<br />Georgetown University (LLM) }} '''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.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/24/us/definition-of-rape-is-shifting-rapidly.html?_r=0|title=Definition of Rape is Shifting Rapidly|newspaper=The New York Times|date=24 August 2012 |accessdate=2015-08-17 |last1=Bronner |first1=Ethan }}</ref>
== Education == 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.law.cuny.edu/faculty/directory/anderson/MJAnderson-CV.pdf|title=M.J. Anderson : CV|publisher=Law.cuny.edu|accessdate=2015-08-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150226072550/http://www.law.cuny.edu/faculty/directory/anderson/MJAnderson-CV.pdf|archive-date=2015-02-26|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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."<ref>{{Cite web|date=1988-06-16|title=The Great Pretender : Always an Outsider, She Bluffed Her Way Inside a Beauty Pageant; That's When Things Got Ugly|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-06-16-vw-6760-story.html|access-date=2020-09-05|website=Los Angeles Times|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Collins|first=Lauren|title=Miss America's History-Makers and Rule-Breakers|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/09/07/miss-americas-history-makers-and-rule-breakers|access-date=2020-09-05|magazine=The New Yorker|language=en-us}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Ap |date=1988-06-16 |title=Beauty Contestant Denounces the 'Indignities' |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/06/16/us/beauty-contestant-denounces-the-indignities.html |access-date=2022-05-17 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{cite book|title=Storming the Court: How a Band of Yale Law Students Sued the President-and Won: Brandt Goldstein: 9780743230018: Amazon.com: Books |isbn=0743230019 |last1=Goldstein |first1=Brandt |year=2005 |publisher=Scribner }}</ref> Anderson was also a visiting scholar at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.
== Academic career == 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<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.law.georgetown.edu/academics/academic-programs/clinical-programs/our-clinics/appellate-litigation/ |title=Appellate Litigation Clinic — Georgetown Law |publisher=Law.georgetown.edu |date=2014-10-14 |accessdate=2015-08-17}}</ref> at Georgetown University Law Center from 1995 to 1997. There, she also earned a Master of Laws in Advocacy.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.martindale.com/Search_Tools/Law_Schools/schl0994.aspx |title=City University of New York School of Law at Queens College |publisher=Martindale.com |date= |accessdate=2015-08-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150908064616/http://www.martindale.com/Search_Tools/Law_Schools/schl0994.aspx |archive-date=2015-09-08 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.law.cuny.edu/faculty/directory/anderson.html|title=Michelle J. Anderson - Faculty Directory|access-date=2014-11-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141031195416/http://www.law.cuny.edu/faculty/directory/anderson.html|archive-date=2014-10-31|url-status=dead}}</ref>
She served as Dean at CUNY School of Law from 2006 to 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.<ref>{{cite web|last=Altman |first=Alexa |url=http://queenscourier.com/cuny-law-school-opens-in-lic/ |title=CUNY law school opens in LIC |publisher=QueensCourier.com |date=2012-11-01 |accessdate=2015-08-17}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.qgazette.com/news/2009-10-21/Features/CUNY_Law_School_Will_Move_To_Long_Island_City.html |title=CUNY Law School Will Move To Long Island City | www.qgazette.com | Queens Gazette |publisher=www.qgazette.com |date=2009-10-21 |accessdate=2015-08-17}}</ref> 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,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.law.cuny.edu/academics/social-justice/pipeline.html |title=Pipeline to Justice - Social Justice Initiatives - Academics - CUNY School of Law |publisher=Law.cuny.edu |date= |accessdate=2015-08-17}}</ref> the Incubator Program,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.law.cuny.edu/clrn/incubator.html |title=Incubator for Justice - Community Legal Resource Network - CUNY School of Law |publisher=Law.cuny.edu |date=2013-09-05 |accessdate=2015-08-17}}</ref> the Community & Economic Development Clinic,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.law.cuny.edu/academics/clinics/ced.html |title=Community & Economic Development - Academics - CUNY School of Law |publisher=Law.cuny.edu |date= |accessdate=2015-08-17}}</ref> the Center for Urban Environmental Reform,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cuer.law.cuny.edu/|title=Center for Urban Environmental Reform}}</ref> the center on Latino/a Rights and Equality,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.law.cuny.edu/academics/social-justice/clore.html|title=Center on Latino and Latina Rights and Equality|author=CUNY School of Law|publisher=}}</ref> and the Sorensen Center for International Peace and Justice.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.law.cuny.edu/academics/social-justice/sorensen.html |title=Sorensen Center for International Peace and Justice - Academics - CUNY School of Law |publisher=Law.cuny.edu |date=2015-03-06 |accessdate=2015-08-17}}</ref>
Anderson was a member of the New York City Bar Association's Task Force on New Lawyers in a Changing Profession.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nycbar.org/task-force-on-new-lawyers-in-a-changing-profession |title=New York City Bar Association - Task Force on New Lawyers in a Changing Profession |publisher=Nycbar.org |date= |accessdate=2015-08-17}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/administrative/professional_responsibility/taskforcecomments/022013_michelle_anderson_comment.authcheckdam.pdf |title=ABA Task Force on the Future of Legal Education |publisher=Americanbar.org |accessdate=2015-08-17}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.courtsquarelaw.org/|title=Court Square Law Project}}</ref>
She has been called "one of the legal academy's most perceptive and prolific legal scholars in the area" of sexual assault.<ref>{{cite web|author= |url=http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/crimprof_blog/2004/12/2_false_rape_st.html |title=CrimProf Blog |publisher=Lawprofessors.typepad.com |date= |accessdate=2015-08-17}}</ref> Anderson's work traces the history and evolution of rape law and contrasts it with the reform surrounding campus sexual assault.<ref>[https://www.yalelawjournal.org/feature/campus-sexual-assault-adjudication-and-resistance-to-reform Yale Law Journal – Campus Sexual Assault Adjudication and Resistance to Reform<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Her scholarship covers the resistance requirement in rape law,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.illinoislawreview.org/article/reviving-resistance-in-rape-law/ |title=Articles: Reviving Resistance in Rape Law - Michelle J. Anderson - Volume 1998 - Number 4 « University of Illinois Law Review |publisher=Illinoislawreview.org |date= |accessdate=2015-08-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150826004330/http://www.illinoislawreview.org/article/reviving-resistance-in-rape-law/ |archive-date=2015-08-26 |url-status=dead }}</ref> rape shield laws,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://jpp.whs.mil/public/docs/03_Topic-Areas/03-Victim_Privacy/20141010/05_FromChasityRequirement_ToSexualityLicense_Anderson_200202.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2018-09-21 |archive-date=2017-05-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170518232724/http://jpp.whs.mil/Public/docs/03_Topic-Areas/03-Victim_Privacy/20141010/05_FromChasityRequirement_ToSexualityLicense_Anderson_200202.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> marital rape laws,<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://digitalcommons.law.villanova.edu/wps/art9/ |title="Marital Immunity, Intimate Relationships, and Improper Inferences: A N" by Michelle J. Anderson |journal=Working Paper Series |publisher=Digitalcommons.law.villanova.edu |date= August 2003|accessdate=2015-08-17|last1=Anderson |first1=Michelle }}</ref> the corroboration requirement, prompt complaint requirement, and cautionary instructions in rape law,<ref name="ncdsv1">{{cite web|url=http://www.ncdsv.org/images/VUSL_LegacyOfThePromptComplaintRequirementCorroborationRequirementAndCautionaryInstructionsOnCampusSA_2004.pdf |title=The Legacy of the Prompt Complaint Requirement, Corroboration Requirement, and Cautionary Instructions on Campus Sexual Assault |author=Michelle J. Anderson |publisher=Ncdsv.org |accessdate=2015-08-17 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150907133012/http://www.ncdsv.org/images/VUSL_LegacyOfThePromptComplaintRequirementCorroborationRequirementAndCautionaryInstructionsOnCampusSA_2004.pdf |archivedate=2015-09-07 }}</ref> campus sexual assault codes,<ref name="ncdsv1"/> the place of prostitution and similar prior sexual history in rape cases,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ncjrs.gov/App/Publications/abstract.aspx?ID=205051 |title=NCJRS Abstract - National Criminal Justice Reference Service |publisher=Ncjrs.gov |date= |accessdate=2015-08-17}}</ref> and the legal impact of negative social attitudes toward acquaintance rape victims.<ref>{{Cite web |date= |title=view content |url=https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1000&context=cl_pubs}}</ref> She has written about sex education's influence on cultural norms of gender in sexuality,<ref>{{cite journal|author=Michelle J. Anderson |url=https://repository.law.umich.edu/mjgl/vol17/iss1/5/ |title="Sex Education and Rape" by Michelle J. Anderson |journal=Michigan Journal of Gender & Law |publisher=Repository.law.umich.edu |date= January 2010|volume=17 |issue=1 |pages=83–110 |accessdate=2015-08-17}}</ref> the sexual assault of political detainees under South African apartheid,<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/grggenl1&div=61&id=&page= |title=1 Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law 1999-2000 Rape in South Africa |journal=Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law |publisher=Heinonline.org |date= |volume=1 |page=789 |accessdate=2015-08-17|last1=Anderson |first1=Michelle J. }}</ref> and the traditional constructs of stranger rape and their impact on rape jurisprudence<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://scholarship.law.stjohns.edu/lawreview/vol79/iss3/2/ |title="All-American Rape" by Michelle J. Anderson |journal=St. John's Law Review |publisher=Scholarship.law.stjohns.edu |date=2012-02-02 |volume=79 |issue=3 |accessdate=2015-08-17|last1=Anderson |first1=Michelle }}</ref> She has also written a new model for how to define rape legally, which focuses on negotiating desires and boundaries.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lawreview.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/slideshow/Anderson_Michelle_78_6.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160205005158/http://lawreview.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/slideshow/Anderson_Michelle_78_6.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=2016-02-05 |title=Articles Negotiating Sex |author=Michelle J. Anderson |publisher=Lawreview.usc.edu |accessdate=2015-08-17 }}</ref> In 2015, Anderson engaged in an "Intelligence Squared" [https://www.intelligencesquaredus.org/debates/courts-not-campuses-should-decide-sexual-assault-cases 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 == Anderson became the 10th President of Brooklyn College in August 2016.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/web/about/administration/president/anderson.php|title=President Anderson's Biography}}</ref> In her first year as president, Anderson invited Bernie Sanders by writing him a letter and telling him to “come home.” <ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-05-30 |title=Bernie's Back In Brooklyn; Speaks at Brooklyn College Commencement |url=https://bklyner.com/bernies-back-brooklyn-speaks-brooklyn-college-commencement/ |access-date=2022-05-10 |website=Bklyner |language=en}}</ref>
== Honors == Anderson is a member of the American Law Institute,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Institute |first=The American Law |title=Members |url=https://www.ali.org/members/member/292896/ |access-date=2024-04-29 |website=American Law Institute |language=en}}</ref> an Adviser to the ALI's Model Penal Code: Sexual Assault and Related Offenses Project,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ali.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=projects.members&projectid=26 |title=current Projects|accessdate=December 9, 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140915144825/http://www.ali.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=projects.members&projectid=26 |archivedate=September 15, 2014 }}</ref> and a Consultant to its Project on Sexual & Gender-Based Misconduct on Campus.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ali.org/projects/show/project-sexual-and-gender-based-misconduct-campus-procedural-frameworks-and-analysis/#_participants|title=Project on Sexual and Gender-Based Misconduct on Campus: Procedural Frameworks and Analysis|author=The American Law Institute|work=American Law Institute}}</ref> She is a former Policy Chair of the National Alliance to End Sexual Violence.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://endsexualviolence.org/ |title=End Sexual Violence.org — NAESV |publisher=Endsexualviolence.org |date= |accessdate=2015-08-17}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{cite web|last=Baum |first=Joan |url=http://www.educationupdate.com/archives/2011/NOV/HTML/cov-outstandingeducators2011.html |title=Education Update's Outstanding Educators of the Year Garner Awards at the Harvard Club |publisher=Education Update |date= |accessdate=2015-08-17}}</ref> In 2013, the Center for Women in Government and Civil Society at the University of Albany gave her the Public Service Leadership Award.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.albany.edu/womeningov/anniversary/award.shtml |title=Center for Women in Government & Civil Society - Women in Public Service Leadership Awards |publisher=Albany.edu |date= |accessdate=2015-08-17}}</ref> In 2014, the New York City Bar Association gave her the Diversity & Inclusion Champion Award.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nycbar.org/44th-street-blog/2014/04/28/city-bar-announces-2014-diversity-inclusion-champion-award-winners/ |title=New York City Bar Association - City Bar Announces 2014 Diversity & Inclusion Champion Award Winners | 44th Street Blog44th Street Blog |publisher=Nycbar.org |date=2014-04-28 |accessdate=2015-08-17}}</ref> 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 [http://www.legalservicesnyc.org/news-and-events/events/2017-champion-of-justice-awards Champion of Justice Award].
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