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Professor Martha Albertson Fineman, Director, and founder of the Feminism and Legal Theory Project, received her B.A. from Temple University in 1971 and her J.D. from the University of Chicago in 1975.  She has received numerous professional honors and awards and held several distinguished professorships. She is currently a Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law.  She has authored three books (i) The Autonomy Myth: A Theory of Dependency, (2004); (ii) The Neutered Mother, The Sexual Family and Other Twentieth Century Tragedies, (1995); and (iii) The Illusion of Equality:  The Rhetoric and Reality of Divorce Reform, (1991). 

Vanessa King, Assistant Law Librarian for Reference, earned her M.S.L.S from Clark Atlanta University in 2004; her J.D. and her M.A. in anthropology from the University of Tulsa in 2002; and her B.A. in anthropology and women’s studies from Colorado College in 1997. She has dedicated most of her academic career to the study of law and society, including family law, law and sexuality, feminist jurisprudence, and the interrelationship of law and public policy. She spent two summers in Europe as part of three Tulsa Law programs: the Institute in European and International Law, Dublin, Ireland; the Institute on Indigenous Peoples Law, Geneva, Switzerland; and Applied European Union Law, Leuven, Belgium. Her current work includes development and maintenance of the Feminism and Legal Theory Project Archives, providing library orientation, research instruction and research assistance for visiting scholars, and collection development in areas central to feminism and legal theory.