Professor Franck is the author of various articles published in journals such as the American Journal of International Law, Fordham Law Review, Harvard Journal of International Law, Minnesota Law Review, North Carolina Law Review and the Virginia Journal of International Law. In addition to her presentations to the United Nations Commission on Trade and Investment and the Inter-American Development Bank, Professor Franck has presented her scholarship in Australia, Canada, The Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom and throughout the United States. Professor Franck has been elected to the International Who's Who of Commercial Arbitration and received the "New Voices" award from the American Society of International Law for her empirical analysis of investment treaty arbitration.
Prior to joining Washington & Lee, Professor Franck was an Assistant Professor at the University of Nebraska Law College and a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota Law School. Before returning to the academy, Professor Franck practiced in the area of international economic dispute resolution on both sides of the Atlantic. From 1999-2001, Professor Franck was an associate in Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering's International Group in Washington, D.C. where she was involved with various proceedings, including international trade disputes, commercial litigation regarding defaulted sovereign debt and one of the first investment treaty arbitrations against the Czech Republic. From 2002-2004, Professor Franck was a senior associate in the International Arbitration Group at Allen & Overy in London, England, where she represented investors and sovereign states in arbitrations involving breaches of investment treaties and underlying commercial agreements.
Professor Franck is qualified to practice law in England and Wales, Minnesota and the District of Columbia. She has been appointed to the Academic Council for the Institute for Transnational Arbitration, the American Association of Law School's Section on Alternative Dispute Resolution, the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and the London Court of International Arbitration. She is also the co-chair of the American Society of International Law's International Economic Law Interest Group.
