Frances Elisabeth Olsen (born February 4, 1945) is an American legal scholar who is a professor of law at University of California, Los Angeles and a member of the school of Feminist Legal Theory. She teaches Feminist Legal Theory, dissidence and law, family law, and torts.[1] Her areas of research interest include legal theory, social change, and feminism.
She has written more than 100 scholarly articles, co-authored Cases and Materials on Family Law: Legal Concepts and Changing Human Relationships, and edited two collections on feminist theory.[1] Her article The Family and the Market, 96 Harv. L. Rev. 1497 (1983), is one of the most cited works in legal scholarship. She has taught courses in feminist legal theory at Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge, Berlin, Frankfurt, the University of Tokyo, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and at other universities in the United States, Chile, France, Italy, Japan, and Israel. She was a Fellow at Oxford University in 1987 and is a former Overseas Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge University. She has lectured throughout the world.
