Frances Elisabeth Olsen (born February 4, 1945) is a law professor at UCLA and a member of the school of feminist theories listed. He teaches Feminist Legal Theory, Dissidency & amp; Law, Family Law, and Indemnification. His research interests include legal theory, social change, and feminism.
He was born in Chicago, Illinois, receiving B.A. from Goddard College in 1968, a J.D. from the University of Colorado in 1971 (where he became the Notes and Commentary Editor of the legal review), and an S.J.D. from Harvard University in 1984. While in law school, Olsen undertook legal aid work for migrant farm workers in Colorado. After law school, he was a legal clerk for Alfred Arraj, US District Court Judge for the District of Colorado. In 1973, he represented Native Americans in Wounded Knee. He also founded a public interest law firm in Denver, Colorado that deals with feminist issues. From 1981 to 1983, while S.J.D. student, he founded a legal academic women's group, Fem-Crits, which spread across the country.
He has written over 100 scientific articles, co-authored Cases and Materials on Family Laws: Concepts of Law and Changing Human Relations, and edited two collections on feminist theory. His article Family and Markets , 96 Harv. L. Rev. 1497 (1983), is one of the most cited works in jurisprudence. He has taught courses in feminist legal theory at Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge, Berlin, Frankfurt, University of Tokyo, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and other universities in the United States, Chile, France, Italy, Japan and Israel. He was a Fellow at Oxford University in 1987 and is a former Foreign Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge University. He has taught all over the world.
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