The founder and director of the Victim Advocacy and Research Group, she is associate editor of the Sexual Assault Report and the author of numerous articles and opinion pieces on the criminal justice system, sexual violence, child abuse, and related legal topics.
She was a principal performer on the nationally syndicated television show, "Power of Attorney," and has served as a legal analyst on NBC, MSNBC, CNN, CNBC, Fox News, Court TV, "Dateline," "Good Morning America," "The Today Show," and NPR's "The Connection." She is also a regular columnist for Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly.


She received a B.A. from Boston College and a J.D. from New England School of Law.


The late Mary Joe Frug was a professor of law at New England School of Law from 1981 to 1991. She taught Contracts, Domestic Relations, and Women and the Law. The author of Women and the Law, she had written several articles on issues relating to women and the law, and at the time of her death in 1991, she was a Radcliffe Visitor-in-Residence, working on a project on postmodernist legal feminism.

Before joining the faculty at New England, she was a faculty member at Villanova University School of Law, Boston University School of Law, and Columbia University School of Law. She received a bachelor's degree from Wellesley College, a juris doctor degree cum laude from the National Law Center at George Washington University, and an LL.M. degree from New York University School of Law