Deana Pollard-Sacks
Professor of Law

Phone: (713) 313-7159
Email: deana.pollard@tmslaw.tsu.edu
Alternate Email: professorpollard@comcast.net
Joined the faculty in 2000.

Curriculm Vitae

View my academic publications at http://ssrn.com/author=507918 
View my new talk show at www.MeetTheProfessors.org

Education:
LL.M., University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 1999
J.D., University of Southern California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 1989
B.A., University of Washington-Seattle, Seattle, WA, 1986

Courses Taught
Law Practice Management

Biographical Information

• Professor of Law, Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, TX (2007- Present)
  
• Associate Professor of Law, Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, TX (2004-2007)
  
• Assistant Professor of Law, Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, TX (2000-2004)
  
• Board Member, PTAVE (2007-Present)
  
• Board Member, EPOCH-USA (2005-Present)
  
• Policy Analyst, The Elected Lost Angeles Charter Reform Commission, Los Angeles, CA (1998)
• Private Practice/Litigation (Licensed in CA and WA) (1989-Present)

Major Publications

• Sex Torts, forthcoming. This book reviews the history of sex regulation and legal norms with a focus on civil liability for sexual assault and other sexual misconduct.  It analyzes sexual culture and the rapid changes to the law resulting from the #MeToo and #TimesUp social movements. The problems with legal doctrine and the legal system itself are analyzed in detail, and reform is suggested by reference to progressive American and international consent analysis and rape doctrine. The last chapter proposes a civil remedy for children against pornographers, who are known to target children online. Foreword by Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, U.C. Berkeley School of Law.
• The Godfathers of Sex Abuse, Book II: Harvey Weinstein & Bill Cosby (2020). In the second Godfathers book, Harvey Weinstein’s and Bill Cosby’s modi operandi are dissected, focusing on the similarities to Jeffrey Epstein’s modus operandi.  Many of the same famous lawyers and trusted prosecutors played a role in aiding these men as in Jeffrey Epstein’s case. In a third part, The Penumbras of #MeToo, the intersection of race, misogyny, and youth in the rape equation are analyzed. In the end, reform to information systems is suggested, along with proposed proactive collective and individual action, to further the goal of sexual free will for all.
• The Godfathers of Sex Abuse, Book I: Jeffrey Epstein (2019). Jeffrey Epstein’s rise to incredible fortune, his elaborate Ponzi-style international sex-trafficking operations, and his reported death by suicide hanging are detailed in this first of a series of books about how rich and powerful men have been immunized from consequences for their sex crimes for decades.  The many layers of enablers, including trusted prosecutors,

Publications

• Supreme Court Decision on Violent Video Games Was Based on the First Amendment, Not Scientific Evidence, 69 Am. Psychol. 307 (2014) (with Brad Bushman).
• Constitutionalized Negligence, 89 Wash. U. L. Rev. 1065 (2012).
• Implicit Bias-Inspired Torts, in Implicit Racial Bias Across the Law 61 (Justin D. Levinson & Robert J. Smith eds., 2012).
• Snyder v. Phelps: A Slice of the Facts and Half an Opinion, 2011 Cardozo L. Rev. de novo 64 (2011).
• Do Violent Video Games Harm Children? Comparing the Scientific Amicus Curiae “Experts” in Schwarzenegger v. Entertainment Merchants Association, 106 Nw. U. L. Rev. Colloquy 1 (2011) (with Brad J. Bushman & Craig A. Anderson) (Lead Article).
• Children’s Developmental Vulnerability and the Roberts Court’s Child Protective Jurisprudence: An Emerging Trend?, 40 Stetson L. Rev. 777 (2011).
• Constitutionalized Negligence, 89 WASH. U. L. REV. 1065 (2012).
  
• Implicit Bias-Motivated Torts, in IMPLICIT RACIAL BIAS ACROSS THE LAW (Justin Levinson & Rob Smith, eds., 2012).
  
• Do Violent Video Games Harm Children? Comparing Scientific Amicus Curiae "Experts" in Schwarzenegger v. Entertainment Merchants Association, 106 NW. U. L. REV. COLLOQUY 1 (2011)
  (co-authored by Brad J. Bushman and Craig A. Anderson).
  
• Snyder v. Phelps, The Supreme Court's Speech-Tort Jurisprudence, and Normative Considerations, 120 YALE L. J. ONLINE 193 (2010) (Feature Essay).
  
• State Actors Beating Children: A Call for Judicial Relief, 42 U.C. DAVIS L. REV. 1165 (2009), cited in Nolan v. Memphis City Schools, 598 F.3d 257, 268, n. 1 (6th Cir. 2009).
  
• Intentional Sex Torts, 77 FORDHAM L. REV. 1051 (2008).
  
• Elements of Liberty, 61 S.M.U. L. REV. 1557 (2008).
  
• Sex Torts, 91 MINN. L. REV. 769 (2007).
  
• Wrongful Analysis in Wrongful Life Jurisprudence, 55 ALA. L. REV. 327 (2004).
• Banning Child Corporal Punishment, 77 TUL. L. REV. 575 (2003).
• Banning Corporal Punishment  A Constitutional Analysis, 52 AM. U. L. REV. 447 (2002).
• Regulating Violent Pornography, 43 VAND. L. REV. 125 (1990).
• Unconscious Bias and Self Critical Analysis:  The Case for a Qualified Evidentiary Equal Employment
  Opportunity Privilege, 74 WASH. L. REV. 913 (1999).

    Practice-Oriented Work

• Sexual Harassment: What Is It? What Can You Do About It?,  Washington Trial Lawyers Association
  Annual Employment Law Seminar (1995).

• Reinstating Common Law Marriage, California Legislature Joint Task Force on the Changing Family,
  Reinstating Common Law Marriage in California Couples: Recognizing Diversity & Strengthening
  Fundamental Relationships (1988).

  Media and Public Speaking

  Television

• MSNBC. New York, NY. Appeared on Dan Abrams’s show to debate the proposed Massachusetts
  legislation to prohibit spanking. Nov. 28, 2007.
• Fox News Channel. New York, NY. Appeared on various national news segments, virtual roundtable. May,
  2005 – present.
• New England Cable News Network. Boston, MA. Debated Chester Darling on children’s rights regarding
  corporal punishment. Jan. 14, 2005. Appeared on Amanda Lasseter’s talk show regarding proposed
  spanking bill.
• Channel 9 News (KUSA), Denver, CO. Interviewed by Law Professor Jan Laitos on “@ISSUE” segment of
  Ten O’Clock News regarding various topics, including American children’s rights, sexual disease, and
  unconscious bias.
• Fox 26 News at Nine, Houston, TX. Various appearances relating to various legal topics, including civil liability
  for transmitting a sexual disease, the Bush v. Gore case in the 2000 Presidential Election and the Americans
  with Disabilities Act. November, 2000 – present.

    Radio

• KPFT, Houston, Texas. Guest on George Reiter’s talk show regarding corporal punishment of children and the
  harms associating with hitting children. Feb. 17, 2005.
• WMAL, Wash., D.C., Jan. 21, 2000. Discussed Southwest Airlines lawsuit.
• KTSU, Houston, Texas, July, 2001. Discussed unconscious bias and corporal punishment of children.

    Legislation

• Press conference on Texas House Bill 2413 (to ban school paddling). April, 2005.
• Testified in favor of James Marzilli’s bill to ban parental spanking, Boston, 2005
• Testified in favor of Alma Allen’s bill to ban school paddling, Austin, 2005.

 

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