Deana Pollard Sacks

Deana Pollard Sacks is a professor of law at the Thurgood Marshall School of Law in Houston, Texas. She received an undergraduate degree from the University of Washington in 1986, a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Southern California in 1989, and an advanced law degree with an emphasis on implicit bias and discrimination from the University of California, Berkeley in 1999. Her research centers on implicit bias, children's development, sex tort liability, and regulation of dangerous...See more

Deana Pollard Sacks is a professor of law at the Thurgood Marshall School of Law in Houston, Texas. She received an undergraduate degree from the University of Washington in 1986, a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Southern California in 1989, and an advanced law degree with an emphasis on implicit bias and discrimination from the University of California, Berkeley in 1999. Her research centers on implicit bias, children's development, sex tort liability, and regulation of dangerous speech. She is a contributing author of Implicit Racial Bias Across the Law (2012) and has authored numerous law review articles, including "Sex Torts," "Intentional Sex Torts," "Regulating Violent Pornography," "Elements of Liberty," and "Constitutionalized Negligence." In 2014, she started a grassroots talk show called Meet The Professors (www.MeetTheProfessors.org) to provide free access to a conversational forum in which leading academics discuss decades of legal and scientific research concerning social issues such as the influence of sexual and violent media on children and the sexual disease epidemic. Prior to teaching full time, Professors Sacks practiced law in Los Angeles and Seattle, including employment discrimination and sexual harassment. She is actively working to eradicate sexual assault, sex abuse, and discrimination of all types, for all people. She can be reached through the Sacks Law Firm in Houston, Texas. In her very limited spare time, she enjoys skiing, surfing, hiking, and looking after hummingbirds and other wild things. See less