Ms.

Michelle

J.

Anderson

Michelle J. Anderson has been President of Brooklyn College since 2016. Before that, she was Dean of the CUNY School of Law for ten years. She is a leading scholar on rape law and her articles have 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, among others. 

Anderson attended Yale Law School. Following law school, she clerked on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit for Judge William A. Norris. She then worked at Georgetown University Law Center in the Appellate Litigation Program and the Institute for Public Representation where she earned an LL.M. in Advocacy and represented clients pursuing a range of civil rights claims and criminal appeals.

Anderson was a member of the Villanova University School of Law faculty for eight years. She has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and a Visiting Professor at Yale Law School, the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, and Georgetown University Law Center.
 

EDUCATION: University of California, Santa Cruz, B.A.; Yale Law School, J.D.; Georgetown University Law Center, LL.M.