Email

andrews@mail.law.cuny.edu

Phone

(718) 340-4339

Office

245F

Penelope Andrews, International Human Rights Coordinator and Affiliated Scholar, was born in Cape Town, South Africa, and received her B.A. and LL.B. degrees from the University of Natal in Durban. She worked the Legal Resources Centre in Johannesburg before pursuing graduate studies at Columbia University, where she received an LL.M. degree. She spent a brief period at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund in New York before being appointed the Chamberlain Fellow in Legislation at Columbia Law School. Prior to joining the faculty at CUNY, she taught anti-discrimination law and policy, and Aboriginal Law in Melbourne, Australia.

She has taught at the University of Maryland, the University of Natal, the University of Aberdeen 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 human rights issues in the South African and Australian contexts, and appears frequently on panels addressing issues of international human rights, women, and black people.

She is active in a variety of international human rights and peace organizations, and is a member of the board of the Welfare Law Center, the Law and Society Association and the Friends of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. She is a contributing co-author of The Post-Apartheid Constitutions: Reflections on South Africa's Basic Law.