Email

andrews@mail.law.cuny.edu

Phone

(718) 340-4339

Office

215-B

Prof. Penelope (Penny) Andrews (B.A. LL.B. (Natal) LL.M (Columbia), is Associate Dean and Professor of Law. Dean Andrews returned to CUNY Law School in 2010, where she had served on the faculty for more than a decade, from Valparaiso Law School and a concurrent Chair in Law at La Trobe University in Australia. She has been a visiting professor at several law schools, including the University of Maryland, the University of Natal, the University of Aberdeen, the University of Potsdam, and the University of Amsterdam. In 2002 she was the Stoneman Fellow of Law and Democracy at Albany Law School and the Parsons Visitor at the University of Sydney.

In 2004 she was a resident at the Rockefeller Center in Bellagio, Italy, working on a manuscript on women's human rights law. She has written extensively on constitutional and human rights issues in the South African, Australian, and international contexts, and appears frequently on panels addressing issues of comparative constitutional law, international human rights, women, and racial minorities.

She is an editor of two books, The Post-Apartheid Constitutions: Reflections on South Africa's Basic Law, and Law and Rights: Global Perspectives on Constitutionalism and Governance. Her forthcoming book, From Cape Town to Kabul: Reconsidering Women's Human Rights, will be published in 2010. She has received several awards for her human rights work, including a scholarship in her honor to benefit disadvantaged black South Africans at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. She sits on the Boards of several law journals and is the editor of the International Review of Constitutionalism.

Prof. Andrews has served as a Board Member for several NGOs, and has also served as a consultant and advisor to governments and NGOs. She has served as a law school site inspector for the American Bar Association. She has strong organizational and interpersonal skills, has conducted training workshops on a range of issues, and has organized several conferences in the USA and abroad. In 2005 she was a finalist for a vacancy on the Constitutional Court of South Africa and interviewed by the Judicial Services Commission. Her resume provides a full description of her prior positions, experience, honors and scholarship.