Professor Mary Anne Franks recently visited the University of Chicago Institute of Politics to speak at a seminar on social media, gender, and power. She was a plenary speaker for the 2014 Washington Superior Court Judges Spring Conference and led a seminar on sexual privacy for the Washington Supreme Court Gender and Justice Commission. Professor Franks also participated in two seminars at the University of Washington School of Law, one on the role of intellectual property law in regulating revenge porn, and one on security and privacy dangers created by the Internet. She presented her paper, “Men, Women, and Optimal Violence” at the 2014 Law and Society Association Conference. Professor Franks was recently featured in a HuffPost Live discussion about the recent UCSB shooting, interviewed by the Christian Science Monitor about Stand Your Ground laws, and co-authored an op-ed on "revenge porn" in The Guardian.