Professor Ansley’s expertise reached beyond the law school and into the community. While she taught at the College of Law, she often found ways to involve her students in collaborative projects aimed at working with communities to tackle problems of injustice, and her scholarly research tended in a similar direction.

After retiring from teaching in 2007, she continued both her active scholarship and community engagement. She worked with faculty and students from the College of Law on projects of mutual interest. Professor Ansley’s writings explored a range of issues. She focused largely on immigrants’ rights and labor rights and the relationship between the two.

Professor Ansley’s articles appeared in a number of law reviews, including California, Colorado, Cornell, Georgetown, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee. She co-edited a 2009 book on Latino immigration to the Southeastern United States, and contributed chapters to several interdisciplinary books on issues of race, gender, poverty, and workers’ responses to globalization.

Through her passion for justice, Ansley left a lasting impact on the College of Law community. Read about her legacy, here.