Andrea McArdle, Professor of Law at City University of New York School of Law, teaches a variety of experiential courses, including seminars she designed in judicial rhetoric and in urban land use and community lawyering. Andrea begins her sixth year as chair or co-chair of the Law School’s Curriculum Committee, and, as Director of Legal Writing, has shaped the development of CUNY’s writing-intensive curriculum.

In 2013 she received a teaching award from the graduating class. Before joining the CUNY Law School faculty, she taught in the Lawyering Program at NYU School of Law, served as Lawyering Faculty Coordinator and, as NYU Lawyering Theory Workshop Coordinator, developed an interdisciplinary faculty workshop series to provide a framework for thinking about how lawyers work.

Andrea’s published articles and essays are at the intersection of law, narrative, and rhetoric, on pedagogy, and on urban land use and community studies. She has co-edited, and is a contributor to, the anthologies Uniform Behavior: Police Localism and National Politics (Palgrave Macmillan 2006) and Zero Tolerance: Quality of Life and the New Police Brutality in New York City (NYU Press, 2001). She has also been a Senior Assistant County Attorney for Westchester County and counsel to the Mount Vernon Urban Renewal Agency. She holds a J.D. from NYU School of Law, an LL.M. from Columbia Law School, an M.A. in literature from Columbia University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, and a Ph.D. in American Studies from the Department of Cultural and Social Analysis, NYU Graduate School of Arts & Science.

Recent Work from Andrea McArdle

  • October 29, 2021

    Reimagining Urban Public Housing as a Commons

    Andrea McArdle’s chapter in The Cambridge Handbook of Commons Research Innovations, entitled “Reimagining Urban Public Housing as a Commons,” focuses on NYCHA, arguing for the primacy of NYCHA residents (rather than that of profit-driven developers) so that decision-making regarding public housing as a commons is grounded in residents’ urban knowledge, experience, and need, and informed by the social function of property theory.

  • December 8, 2020

    Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Reading of the Fair Housing Act: An Interpretive Approach Aligned with Legislative Policy

    Andrea McArdle writes a comment for the Oxford Human Rights Hub that details Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s meaningful body of work in fair housing cases. McArdle notes the impact of Ginsburg’s record interpreting the Fair Housing Act’s (FHA) broadly framed policy aims to promote access to housing and reflects that the loss of her influential, policy-aligned perspective leaves the Court’s interpretive predilections, and the prospects for fair housing plaintiffs, far less certain.

  • June 24, 2020

    Policing, Race, and Minneapolis’s Single-Family Zoning Reform: Part 3 of Policing, Race, and Minneapolis’s Single-Family Zoning Reform

    Andrea McArdle writes for The Faculty Lounge in part 3/3 of Reflections on Minneapolis, New York, Race, Policing, and Zoning: “Bringing together the metaphorical cities within a city, in Minneapolis, New York, and cities throughout the U.S., will be challenging; it calls for urban communities to reflect on the persisting failure of institutions, and the individuals who comprise them, to draw lessons from experience, and engage in the kind of critical examination that is key to any hope for root-and-branch change.”

  • June 23, 2020

    A Tale of Two Cities: Part 2 of Reflections on Minneapolis, New York, Race, Policing, and Zoning

    Andrea McArdle writes for The Faculty Lounge in part 2/3 of Reflections on Minneapolis, New York, Race, Policing, and Zoning: “The political, economic, and social realities of Minneapolis and New York City underscore how their local experience fits the “tale of two cities” trope. At a policy level, each embraces equity and racial equality. Yet significant differences based in race and socioeconomic indicators persist, and have challenged efforts to unify disparate communities. These differences exist in employment, housing, access to health care, and education.”

     

  • June 22, 2020

    Reflections on Minneapolis, New York, and the Limited Context of Policing Reforms: Part 1 of Policing, Race, and Minneapolis’s Single-Family Zoning Reform

    Andrea McArdle writes for The Faculty Lounge in part 1/3 of Reflections on Minneapolis, New York, Race, Policing, and Zoning: “The disparities in resources between cities within a city are reflected and reinforced in their relationships with law enforcement. The well-resourced city relies on local police forces to provide public safety and protect private property. The under-resourced city has little property to protect but often experiences a high degree of public-safety risk, typically with little assurance that its heightened need will be met.”

  • February 1, 2020

    Teaching with Feminist Judgments: A Global Conversation

    Andrea McArdle and her coauthors write in the Law & Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice a conversational-style essay as an exchange among fourteen professors—representing thirteen universities across five countries—with experience teaching with feminist judgments. Feminist judgments are ‘shadow’ court decisions rewritten from a feminist perspective, using only the precedent in effect and the facts known at the time of the original decision.

  • February 1, 2020

    Teaching with Feminist Judgments: A Global Conversation

    Andrea McArdle and her coauthors write in the Law & Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice a conversational-style essay as an exchange among fourteen professors—representing thirteen universities across five countries—with experience teaching with feminist judgments. Feminist judgments are ‘shadow’ court decisions rewritten from a feminist perspective, using only the precedent in effect and the facts known at the time of the original decision.

Professor Andrea McArdle looks at the camera

Why I Teach at CUNY Law

“CUNY Law’s social justice mission brings to the law school an inspiring group of students and faculty colleagues, and dedicated staff members and administrators, with whom I feel privileged to work. This justice aspiration infuses the curriculum, the extra curriculum, our teaching, and every conversation across the CUNY Law community. It challenges us and gives meaning to the work we do.”

Contact

Email
mcardle@law.cuny.edu
Phone
718-340-4348
Office
4-309

Featured Work

SSRN Author Page – Andrea McArdle

Curriculum Vitae