Penelope Andrews

Penelope Andrews 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 at a public interest law firm 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 classes in Aboriginal Law in Melbourne, Australia. She has also visited at the University of Maryland, where she taught a comparative South African/American course on Race and the Law, and at Albany Law School, where she was the Kate Stoneman Fellow. 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, serving, for example, as vice president of the South African-American Organization and is a contributing editor of The South African Constitution and the Enforcement of Rights. She is the co-editor of The Post-Apartheid Constitutions: Reflections on South Africa’s Basic Law.