Katherine Franke is a Professor of Law and Director of the Gender and Sexuality Law Program at Columbia Law School.  She teaches courses in gender equality, police brutality, sexuality and queer legal theory.  Her research has focused on gender and racial equality and well as the regulation of sexuality in domestic, transnational and international contexts. Her website is: http://www2.law.columbia.edu/faculty_franke/index.htm, information about the Gender and Sexuality Law Program is at http://blogs.law.columbia.edu/gendersexualitylaw/, and the Program's blog is: http://blogs.law.columbia.edu/genderandsexualitylawblog/.