University International
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ADRIEN KATHERINE WING
Office Address: University of Iowa College of Law Iowa City, Iowa 52242
Office Phone: 319/335-9129 Fax: 319/335-9098 Cell phone: 319/621-7674
E-mail: ******-****@*****.*** Web: http://www.law.uiowa.edu/faculty/adrien-wing.php
EMPLOYMENT:
The University of Iowa College of Law, Iowa City, Iowa 1987-
Bessie Dutton Murray Professor of Law 2001-
Professor of Law 1993-, Associate Professor 1987-1992
Director, London Law Consortium semester study abroad program 2010-12
Director, summer abroad program in Arcachon, France 2000-
Associate Dean for Faculty Development 2006-2009
Subjects: International Human Rights; Law in the Muslim World; Sex Discrimination
Law; U.S. Constitutional Law I; and Critical Race Theory.
Chapman University Law School, Orange, California Fall 2011
Bette & Wylie Aitken Distinguished Visiting Professor. Subjects: Critical Race Theory,
International Human Rights
University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, MI Fall 2002
Visiting Professor. Subjects: Critical Race Theory, Law in the Muslim World
Rabinowitz, Boudin, Standard, Krinsky & Lieberman, P.C., NY, NY 1986-1987
Associate involved in litigation in the New York state and federal court systems in the
areas of international, labor, constitutional, contract law and pro bono matters of all
types.
Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle, NY, NY 1982-1986
Associate involved in international matters, litigation, personal injury, corporate
transactions and criminal law.
EDUCATION:
Stanford Law School, Stanford, CA (J.D. 1982)
Academic Data:
Doctor of Jurisprudence degree
Who's Who Among American Law Students 1982
Stanford African Students Association Award 1982
Outstanding Young Women of America 1980
Activities:
Stanford Journal of International Law Topic Development Editor; Article Editor
Stanford International Law Society
Founder and Director, East Palo Alto Community Law Project
National Board, Black American Law Students Association
Chairperson: Southern African Task Force
University of California, Los Angeles (M.A. 1979)
Academic Data:
Master of Arts degree in African Studies
Major: Political Science Minor: Comparative and International Education
Honors: Cumulative G.P.A.: 4.0 (on a 4.0 scale)
Graduate Division Academic Fellow
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey (A.B. 1978)
Academic Data:
Major: American and Urban Politics Minor: Afro-American Studies
New Jersey Secondary School Teacher Certification: Social Studies
Honors:
Magna Cum Laude (based on Department G.P.A.: 3.84 on 4.0 scale)
Frederick Douglass Award (Graduation 1978)
Afro-American Studies Thesis Prize, Honorable Mention
Senior Thesis: AA New Jersey Governmental Policy Analysis of Equal Educational
Opportunity,@ (205 pp.)
National Merit Scholar
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Books and Monographs
Democracy, Constitutionalism & the Future State of Palestine: with a case study of women's
rights (PASSIA Institute, Jerusalem 1994)
Judicial Review for Palestine (with Qais Abdel-Fattah and Sonya Braunschweig) (Birzeit
University Law Center, Ramallah, Palestine 1996)
Critical Race Feminism: A Reader (New York University Press 1997)
Global Critical Race Feminism: An International Reader (New York University Press 2000)
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International Human Rights Treaties for Eritrea=s Consideration (with Yohannes Ghebremedhin)
(2000)
Critical Race Feminism: A Reader (New York University Press, 2d edition, 2003)
The Law Unbound!: A Richard Delgado Reader (with Jean Stefancic ed., Paradigm Press 2007)
Chapters in Books
AWeep Not Little Ones: An Essay to Our Children About Affirmative Action,@ in
African Americans and the Living Constitution 208 (Genna Rae McNeil & John Hope
Franklin eds., Smithsonian Press 1995) (with W. H. Knight)
ARape, Ethnicity & Culture,@ in The Critical Race Theory Reader: The Cutting Edge 516
(Richard Delgado ed., Temple Univ. Press 1995) (with Sylke Merchan)
AIntroduction,@ in Critical Race Feminism: A Reader 1 (Adrien Wing ed., NYU Press,
1997)
"Brief Reflections towards a Multiplicative Theory and Praxis of Being,@ in
Critical Race Feminism: A Reader 27 (Adrien Wing ed., NYU Press, 1997)
ABlack South African Women: Towards Equal Rights,@ in Critical Race Feminism:
A Reader 387 (Adrien Wing ed., NYU Press, 1997) (with Eunice de Carvalho)
ASisters in the Hood: Beyond Bloods and Crips,@ in Critical Race Feminism: A Reader 243
(Adrien Wing ed., NYU Press, 1997) (with Christine Willis)
AFrom Liberation to State Building in South Africa: Some Constitutional Considerations for
Palestine,@ in Liberation, Democratization and Transitions to Statehood in the Third
World 91 (May Jayyusi ed., Muwatin The Palestinian Institute for the Study of
Democracy, 1998)
AUniversality vs. Cultural Relativity: A Critical Race Feminist View from the Diaspora,@ in The
Southern African Human Rights Reader: Towards Creating a Sustainable Culture of
Human Rights 61 (BF Bankie et al. eds., UNESCO, 1998)
ABlack Women and Gangs,@ in Unfinished Liberation: Policing, Detention & Prisons 94
(Joy James ed., St. Martin=s Press, 2000)
AIntroduction,@ in Global Critical Race Feminism: An International Reader 1 (Adrien Wing ed.,
2000)
AA Critical Race Feminist Conceptualization of Violence: South African and Palestinian
Women,@ in Global Critical Race Feminism: An International Reader 332
(Adrien Wing ed., 2000)
"Critical Race Feminism," in Civil Rights in the United States 202 (Waldo Martin &
Patricia Sullivan eds., Macmillan, 2000)
"Words of Wisdom," in Dear Sisters, Dear Daughters: Words of Wisdom from
Multicultural Women Attorneys Who=ve Been There and Done That 282
(Karen Clanton ed., American Bar Association 2000)
APalestinian Women and Human Rights,@ in 3 Women=s International Human Rights:
A Reference Guide 567 (Dorean Koenig and Kelly Asken eds., Transnational
Publishers, 2001)
"Introduction" from Critical Race Feminism: A Reader, excerpted in A Reader on Race, Civil
Rights, and American Law 594 (Timothy Davis, Kevin Johnson & George Martinez,
Carolina Academic Press, 2001)
"Motherhood: Transcending Notions of Mothering: The Need for Critical Race Feminist Praxis,"
in Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Human Rights in the Americas: A New Paradigm for
Activism 141 (Celina Romany ed., American University, 2001)(with Laura Weselmann)
ACritical Race Feminism: Legal Reform for the Twenty-first Century,@ in
A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies 160 (David T. Goldberg &
John Solomos eds., Blackwell, 2002)
"From Liberation to State Building in South Africa: Some Constitutional Considerations for
Palestine," in Palestine and International Law: Essays on Politics and Economics 199
(Sanford R. Silverburg ed., Mc Farland & Co., 2002)
"Black Women and Gangs," in States of Confinement: Policing, Detention and Prisons 94 (Joy
James ed., Palgrave, 2002)
"Brief Reflections towards a Multiplicative Theory and Praxis of Being,@ in Back to the Drawing
Board: African Canadian Women and Feminism(s) 262 (Njoki Nathane Wane et al eds.,
Sumach Press, 2002)
AIntroduction,@ in Critical Race Feminism: A Reader 1 (Adrien K. Wing ed., NYU Press, 2d ed.,
2003)
APolygamy in Black America,@ in Critical Race Feminism: A Reader 186 (Adrien K. Wing ed.,
NYU Press, 2d ed., 2003)
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AWomen, Gender and International Conventions,@ 2 Encyclopedia of Women and
Islamic Cultures, Family Law, & Politics 306 (Suad Joseph ed., Brill 2005)
ACritical Race Feminism and Human Rights,@ Essentials of Human Rights 74 (Christien van
den Anker & Rhona Smith eds., Oxford, 2005)
From Wrongs to Rights: Hurricane Katrina from a Global Perspective, in After the Storm:
Black Intellectuals Explore the Meaning of Hurricane Katrina 127 (David Troutt ed.,
New Press, 2006)
Work Ethic, in The African American Law School Survival Guide 406 (Evangeline Mitchell
ed., Hope Publishing, 2006)
ACritical Race Feminist Fore-mothering: Multiplicities in the post 9-11 World,@ From
Oppression to Grace: Women of Color and their Dilemmas within the Academy
233 (Theodora Berry & Nathalie Mizelle eds., Stylus Publishing, 2006)
ACritical Race Feminist Theory,@ Encyclopedia of Law and Society: American and Global
Perspectives 350 (David Clark ed., Sage Press, 2007)
Women s Rights and Africa s Evolving Landscape: Can the Women s Protocol of the
Banjul Charter Make a Contribution?, in Africa: Mapping New Boundaries in
International Law 13 (Jeremy I. Levitt ed., Hart, 2008)
Spirit Injury, Exile, and the State of Palestine, (with Hisham Kassim), in Landscapes of Exile
249 (Anna Haebich & Baden Offord eds., Peter Lang Publishers, 2008)
Review of Laws Having Racially Disparate Impacts, in Global
Perspectives on Constitutional Law 88 (Mark Tushnet & Vikram Amar eds., Oxford Press
2009)
Critical Race Feminism in the Age of the War Against Terrorism, in Multiculturalisms:
Different Meanings and Perspectives of Multiculturalism in a Global World 91 (Barbara
Pozzo ed., Staempfli, 2009)
Founding Mothers for a Palestinian Constitution, in Constituting Equality 290 (Susan
H. Williams ed., Cambridge Press 2009)(with Hisham Kassim)
African Women in the Twenty-first Century, in Power, Gender,and Social Change x (Muna
Ndulo & Margaret Grieco eds., Cambridge Press 2009)
Introduction: Toward Gender Equality in Palestine, in Hallie Ludsin, Women and the Draft
Constitution of Palestine 12 (2012)
Lessons from a Portrait: Keep Calm and Carry on, in Presumed Incompetent (Angela Harris
& Carmen Gonzales eds., Utah State University Press 2012)
The War against Terror: Religion, Clothing, and the Human Right to Peace, in Activating
Human Rights and Peace 189 (Bee Chen Goh et al eds., Ashgate Press 2012)
Critical Race Feminism, in The Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World (Mary
Zeiss Stange, Carol K. Oyster, & J. Geoffrey Golson eds., Sage Press 2012)
Critical Race Feminism, in Theories in Race and Ethnic Relations: Contemporary Debates
and Perspectives (John Solomos et al eds., Cambridge Press 2012)
Race and Ethnic Discrimination, in Handbook on Constitutional Law (Mark Tushnet et al eds.,
Routledge 2012)
The International Human Rights of Black Women: Justice or Just Us, in Black Women and
International Law: New Theory, Old Praxis (Jeremy Levitt ed., Cambridge Press 2012)
APleading & Proof of Foreign Law in American Courts: A Selected Bibliography,@ 19 Stanford
J. of Int'l L. 175 (1983)
AProposed Amendments to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976: The Act of State
Doctrine,@ 14 Denver J. of Int'l L. 299 (1986) (with Manuel Angulo)
ABrief Reflections Toward a Multiplicative Theory & Praxis of Being,@ 6 Berkeley
Women's L. J. 181 (1990-1991)
ALegal Decisionmaking During the Intifada: Embryonic Self Rule,@ 18 Yale J. Int l
L. 95 (1993)
ALegitimacy & Coercion: Legal Traditions & Legal Rules for the Intifada,@ 2(2) Middle
East Policy 87 (Fall 1993)
ACommunitarianism v. Individualism: Constitutionalism in Namibia & South Africa,@ 11
Wisconsin Int l L. J. 295 (1993)
ARape, Ethnicity & Culture: Spirit Injury From Bosnia to Black America,@
25 Columbia Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 1 (1993) (with Sylke Merchan)
AThe Intifada: The Emergence of Embryonic Legal Mechanisms for Palestinian Self-
Determination,@ 15(4) Arab Studies Quarterly 63 (1993)
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ACustom, Religion and Rights: The Future Legal Status of Palestinian Women,@ 35 Harv. J. Int'l
L. 149 (1994)
APalestinian Women: Their Future Legal Status,@ 16(1) Arab Studies Quarterly 55 (1994)
AThe New South African Constitution: An Example for Palestinian Consideration,@ 7 Palestine
Yearbook of Int l L. 105 (1992-1994)
AThe Palestinian Women's Charter: Beyond the Basic Law,@ Third World Legal
Studies 141 (1994-1995) (with Shobhana Kasturi)
ABlack South African Women: Towards Equal Rights,@ 8 Harvard Human Rights J. 57(1995)
(with Eunice de Carvalho)
AA Critical Race Feminist Conceptualization of Violence: South African and Palestinian
Women,@ 60 Albany L. Rev. 943 (1997)
"Critical Race Feminism: Black Women and Gangs," 1 Iowa J. Gender, Race &
Just. 141 (1997)(with Christine Willis)
ACritical Race Feminism and The International Human Rights of Women in Bosnia, Palestine,
and South Africa: Issues for Lat-Crit Theory,@ 28 Miami Inter-American L. Rev. 337
(1997)
AJudicial Review in Palestine,@ 9 Palestine Yearbook of Int l L. 115
(1996/97) (with Qais Abdel-Fattah and Sonya Braunschweig)
AViolence and State Accountability: Critical Race Feminism,@ 1 Georgetown J. Gender and the
Law 95 (1999)
"The Palestinian Basic Law: Embryonic Constitutionalism," 31 Case West. Res. J.
Int'l L. 383 (1999)
"Race and Gender Issues: Critical Race Feminism," 26(3) J. Intergroup
Relations 14 (1999)
AMothering as Critical Race Feminist Praxis,@ 3 Iowa J. Gender, Race & Just. 257
(1999) (with Laura Weselmann)
"From Theory to Praxis: Black Women and Gangs and Critical Race Feminism," 11 La Raza L.J.
1 (1999)(with Christine Willis)
AReno v. American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee: A Critical Race Perspective,@
31 Col. Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 561 (2000)
"Polygamy from Southern Africa to Black Britannia to Black America: Global Critical Race
Feminism as Legal Reform for the Twenty-First Century," 11 J. Contemp. Legal Issues
811 (2001)
"The Promise of a PostGenocide Constitution: Healing Rwandan Spirit Injuries," 7 Mich.
J. Race & L. 247 ( 2002)(with Mark Johnson)
"Healing Spirit Injuries: Human Rights in the Palestinian Basic Law," 54 Rutgers L. Rev. 1087
(2002)
"Global Critical Race Feminism Post 9-11: Afghanistan," 6 Wash. U.J.L. & Pol=y 19
(2002)
ACivil Rights in the Post 9-11 World: Critical Race Praxis, Coalition Building and the War on
Terrorism,@ 63 Louisiana L. Rev. 717 (2003)
AAfrican Women and the New African Union,@ 13 Transnat=l L. & Contemp. Prob. 33
(2003)(with Tyler Smith)
AAn Introduction to the Symposium: The African Union and the New Pan Africanism: Rushing
to Organize or Timely Shift,@ 13 Transnat=l L. & Contemp. Prob. 1 (2003) (with Craig
Jackson & Jeremy Levitt)
AExamining the Correlation between Disability and Poverty: A Comment from a Critical Race
Feminist Perspective Helping the Joneses to Keep up!@ 8 J. Gender, Race & Just. 655
(2005)
ACritical Race Feminism Lifting the Veil?: Muslim Women, France and the Headscarf
Ban, 39 UC Davis L Rev. 743 (2006)(with Monica Nigh Smith)
Constitutionalism, Legal Reform, and the Economic Development of Palestinian Women,
15 Transnat l L. & Contemp. Prob. 655 (2006)
Is Secularism Possible in a Majority-Muslim Country in the Post 9/11 World?: The Turkish
Example, 42 Texas J. Int l L. 1 (2007) (with Ozan Varol)
Global Critical Race Feminism: A Perspective on Gender, War and Peace in the Age of the War
on Terror, 15 Mich. St. J. Int l L. 1 (2007)
Hamas, Constitutionalism, and Palestinian Women, 50 Howard L. J. 480 (2007)(with Hisham
Kassim)
The Future of Palestinian Women s Rights: Lessons from a Half Century of Tunisian Progress,
64 Wash & Lee L. J. 1551 (2007)(with Hisham Kassim)
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A Truth and Reconciliation Commission for Palestine/Israel: Healing Spirit Injuries, 17 Iowa
Transnat l L & Contemp. Prob. 140 (2008)
Race Across Boundaries: the South African Constitution Role Models for the U.S., 24
Harvard Blackletter J. 73 (2008)
Twenty-First Century Loving: Gender Equality in the Muslim World, 76 Fordham Law
Review 2895 (2008)
International Law, Secularism and the Islamic World, 24 American U. Int l L. Rev. 407 (2009)
An Agenda for the Obama Administration on Gender Equality: Lessons from Abroad, 107
Mich L. Rev. First Impressions 124 (2009)(with Samuel Nielson), available at
http://www.michiganlawreview.org/firstimpressions/vol107/wing&nielson.pdf.
Space Traders for the Twenty-First Century, 11 Berkeley J. African-American L. & Pol. 49
(2009)
Gaza, Gender, and the Age of Obama, 36 Rutgers Law Record 150 (2009) (with Samuel
Nielson)
One L Redux, 78 U. Missouri-Kansas City. L. Rev. 1119 (2010)
Global Commitments to Human Rights in National Courts in the Age of Obama, 13 Southern
Cross Law. Rev. 25 (2010)
Conceptualizing Global Substantive Justice in the Age Of Obama, 13 J. Gender, Race & Just..
705 (2010)
Muslim Women s Rights in the Age of Obama, 20 Transnat l L. & Contemp. Prob.
431 (2011)(with Peter Nadimi)
After the Last Judgment: the Future of the Egyptian Constitution, 52 Harv. Int l. L. J. online
301 (2011), http://www.harvardilj.org/2011/04/online_52_wing_kassim (with Hisham
Kassim)
The Arab Fall: the Future of Women s Rights, U.C. Davis Int l L. J. (2012)
Introduction to the Symposium: Ten Years After 9/11: Rethinking Counter-Terrorism 11
Transnat. L. & Contemp. Prob. 1 (2012)(with Burns Weston)
Book Reviews
Mass Rape, 88 American J. Int l L. 849 (1994)
Confronting Authority: Reflections of an Ardent Protester, by Derrick Bell, 12 Harvard
Blackletter L.J. 161 (1995)
Constitutional Options for a Democratic South Africa: A Comparative Perspective, by Ziyad
Motala, 16 Mich. J. Int. L. 689 (1995)
Women in Law, by Akintude Obilade, ed., 82 J. American History 1297 (Dec. 1995)
The Rooster=s Egg, by Patricia Williams, 31 African American Rev. 548 (1997)
"USA 2050: Identity, Critical Race Theory, and the Asian Century," 99 Michigan L. Rev. 1390
(2001)(review of Robert Chang, Disoriented: Asian Americans, Law, and the Nation
State)
Conference Proceedings
ACountertrade in Mexico: Legal Aspects,@ World Trade Institute (1985) (with Manuel Juaregui)
AHealth, Human Rights and International Law,@ 82 American Society of Int l
L. Proceedings 122 (1988)
ASouthern Africa: Prospects for Peace,@ 83 American Society of Int l L. Proceedings 350 (1989)
AEffects & Effectiveness of Sanctions: South Africa,@ 84 American Society of
Int l L. Proceedings 203 (1990)
AAliens & Immigrants,@ 85 American Society of Int l L. Proceedings 204 (1991)
APrivatization,@ 87 American Society of Int l L. Proceedings 105 (1993)
AProspects for a Democratic Palestine: Assets & Impediments,@ in AStatehood,@ Center for Policy
Analysis on Palestine 13 (1994)
AThe Palestinian Elections: An International Legal Context,@ in APalestinian Elections,@ Center
for Policy Analysis on Palestine 17 (1996)
AGender Equality and Governance in Africa: A Critical Race Feminist Perspective,@ in Cornell
Institute for African Development, Governance in Africa: Building
the Capable State 113 (1997)
"The Power of Law: The Promises and Prospects of Legal Reform WorldwideBPalestine," 93
American Society of Int l L. Proceedings 241 (1999)
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"The South African Transition to Democratic Rule: Lessons for International &
Comparative Law," 94 American Society of Int l L. Proceedings 254 (2000)
"Race-Based Affirmative Action in American Legal Education," Association of American Law
Schools International Educators Conference, Florence, Italy 2000, 51 J. Legal Education
443 (2001)
AThe Role of Culture, Race, Gender and Language in Working Together: Developing
Cooperation in International Legal Education,@ 20 Penn State Int=l L. Rev. 35 (2001)
"The Fifth Anniversary of the South African Constitution: a Role Model on Sexual Orientation,"
26 Vermont L. Rev. 821 (2002)
APalestinian Women and Human Rights in the Post 9-11 World,@ 24 Mich. J. Int=l L. 421 (2002)
AAfrica: Mapping New Boundaries,@ 98 American Society of Int l L. Proceedings 246 (2004)
US International Law Theory: Possibilities and Problems, 100 American Society of Int l L.
Proceedings 173 (2006)
Slave Trafficking, 101 American Society of Int l L. Proceedings 277 (2007)
Politics of the Sudan, 102 American Society of Int l L. Proceedings 89 (2008)
HONORS:
Regents Award for Faculty Excellence 2012
American Law Institute member 2009
Clyde Ferguson Award from Association of American Law Schools Minority Section 2009
Lena O. Smith Award from Minnesota Black Women Lawyers Network 2007
Distinguished Achievement Award from University of Iowa 2007
Juliette Gordon Low Award from Mississippi Valley Girls Scouts 2007
Gertrude Rush Award from Iowa National Bar Assn and Iowa Women s Bar Assn 2006
Newark Academy (NJ) Distinguished Alumni Award 2004
University of Iowa African Student Association Diversity Award 1998
Haywood Burns & Shanara Gilbert Award from Northeastern Law Professors of Color 1997
New York University Press Author of the Month - October 1997
Outstanding Young Women of America
Vice President, Princeton Class of 1978 - 1993-1998
Who's Who in America
Who's Who in Finance and Industry
Who's Who Among African Americans
Who's Who in American Education
Who's Who of American Women
Who's Who Among Young American Professionals
Who's Who in the Midwest
The Council on Foreign Relations (term member) 1985-1990
Who's Who in American Law
Who's Who in the World
National Conference of Black Lawyers Hope Stevens Award 1988
Old Gold Summer Research Fellowship, University of Iowa 1988, 1989, 1990
The World Who's Who of Women
Who's Who in the East
International Youth in Achievement 1984
Special Mention Award, Best Paper, Inter-American Bar Association 1985
GOVERNOR=S COMMISSION:
appointed to Iowa Commission on the African American Prison Population
by Governor Vilsack 1999-2001
BOARDS 1987-:
American Bar Association Middle East North/Africa Council 2011-
American Society of International Law Vice President 2007-2009
American Society of International Law Executive Council 2007-2009, 1986-89, 1996-99
Human Rights Watch Africa Division Advisory Committee 2007-2010
U.S. Association of Constitutional Law 2002-
Princeton University Maclean Society 2004-
Princeton African American Studies Advisory Council 2000-12
Princeton University Alumni Service Awards Committee 2002- 2005
Princeton Alumni Council Executive Committee 2002-2004
Executive Committee of the Princeton Alumni Council 2002-2004
American Association of Law Schools Africa Section 2000-2003
American Friends Service Committee, Middle East Programs 1998-2004
American Association of Law Schools Minority Section 1997-2002 ; Chair 2002
Princeton Committee to Nominate Alumni Trustees 1997-2000
Princeton Alumni Council 1996-2000
International Third World Legal Studies Association 1996-2000
Princeton University Class of 1978 Foundation 1985-1987, 1993-2003; President 1993-1998
Stanford Law School Board of Visitors 1993-1996
Iowa Peace Institute 1993-1995
Transafrica Forum Scholars Council 1993-1995
Iowa City Foreign Relations Council 1989-1994
Association of Black Princeton Alumni 1982-1987
AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION LAW SCHOOL SITE INSPECTOR:
Louisiana State 2002, Villanova 2003, Chairperson for University of Connecticut 2004,
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University of Texas 2005, Chairperson for University of Georgia 2006, University of
Pennsylvania 2007, Santa Clara Law School summer program in Istanbul, Turkey 2007,
Columbia 2010, University of California at Irvine 2011, Chairperson for University of
California at Irvine 2012
CONSULTANT:
American College Testing, Iowa 1993
Amer-I-Can Program, Inc. 1994
Motion Picture Corporation of America 1997
BOARD OF EDITORS: American Journal of Comparative Law 1993 -
ADVISORY BOARD: Legal Scholarship Network: Discrimination, Law & Justice Abstracts
1999-
REVIEWER:
University of Pennsylvania Press, Middle East Journal, New York University Press,
University of Nebraska Press, Oxford University Press
CANDIDATE:
Princeton Board of Trustees -- one of three alumni chosen to run on At-Large ballot 1995
COMMITTEE MEMBER:
University of Iowa College of Law:
Most recent: Faculty Appointments, Diversity Committee Chair; International &
Comparative Law;
Representative to AALS House of Representatives
University of Iowa:
Study Abroad Advisory Council 2007-10
Middle East & North African Studies Faculty 2006-
Gender Equity Task Force Chair 2005
University of Iowa Center for Human Rights Executive Council 1999-
African Studies Faculty 1987-
American Society of International Law
Honors Committee 2006-2007
Executive Committee 1998-1999, 2007-09
Membership Committee 1994-1995
Southern Africa Interest Group Executive Board 1989-1992; Chair 1993-1995
Nominating Committee 1989-1990, 1991-1992, 2009-10, 2010-11
Annual Meeting Committee 1989, 2007, 2008
American Bar Association
Middle East North Africa Council; International Issues Committee; Africa Committee;
Middle East Committee
American Association of Law Schools
Committee on Membership Review 2007-2009, Chair 2008-09, 2009-10
PANELS AND LECTURES (over three hundred)
Law Schools:
Albany, American University, American University Cairo (Egypt), Auckland University
(New Zealand), Birmingham (England), Birzeit University (West Bank), Boston College,
University of California at Berkeley, University of California at Davis, University of
California at Los Angeles, University of Capetown (South Africa), Case Western Reserve,
Chapman, Chicago-Kent, Cincinnati, City University of New York, University of
Cincinnati, University of Colorado, Cornell, Denver, DePaul, Durban-Westville (South
Africa), Florida A & M, Florida International University, George Washington,
Georgetown, Gonzaga, Harvard, Hawaii, Indiana (Bloomington), University of Iowa,
Islamic University (Indonesia), O.P. Jindal Global (India), Kalamoon (Syria), Louisiana
State, University of Louisville, University of Miami, McGill (Canada), Michigan,
Michigan State, Minnesota, University of Namibia, University of Nebraska, University of
New Mexico, New York University, Northeastern, University of Otago (New Zealand),
University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State/Dickinson, San Diego, Seattle, Seton Hall
(Third National People of Color), University of Southern California, Southern University,
Southern Cross (Australia), Stanford, Stellenbosch (South Africa), Syracuse, University of
Texas, Thurgood Marshall, Temple, University of Tulsa, University of Waikato (New
Zealand), University of Washington, University of Western Cape (South Africa),
University of Windsor (Canada), Vermont, Washington University-St Louis, Wellington
University (New Zealand), William & Mary, William Mitchell, Yale
Other:
American Association of Law Schools, American Society of International Law, Augustana,
University of Barcelona, Bush School (Seattle), California State Northridge, Central
College, Center for Policy Analysis on Palestine, Chen & Palmer (New Zealand), City
University (London), Cornell College, Council on Family Relations, Drake University,
Edmonds Community College (Seattle), Egyptian Society of International Law, Emory
University, Florida State University London, Ghana, Grinnell College, Hispanic National
Bar, Illinois State University, Indian Society of International Law, Iowa City Foreign
Relations Council, Iowa City School District, Iowa Commission on Status of African
Americans, Iowa State University, Law & Society, London (UK) City Hall, Latino
Critical Theory, Luther College, Midatlantic People of Color Regional Scholarship
Conference, Midwest Black Women, Minnesota Black Women Lawyers Network,
University of Missouri, National Black Law Student Convention, New Zealand Law
Reform Commission, Newark Academy (NJ), Orange County Bar Association, Princeton
University, St. Michael=s College of Vermont, St. Paul School for Girls (Maryland), City of
Seattle, Society of American Teachers, Simmons College, Simpson College, South Centre
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(Geneva), Trenton State College, Trinity College of Vermont, University of California at
Davis, University of California at Santa Barbara, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs,
University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, University of Kalamoon (Syria), University of
Missouri, University of North Carolina, University of Northern Iowa, University of
Southern California, University of Texas-Austin, William Patterson University
BAR MEMBERSHIP: State of New York
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
American Bar Association, American Society of International Law, National Bar
Association, Society of American Law Teachers, Council on Foreign Relations (since 1993),
FOREIGN TRAVEL 1987-:
Teaching:
LONDON LAW CONSORTIUM ON SITE DIRECTOR 2010-12
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA SUMMER PROGRAM IN ARCACHON, FRANCE
DIRECTOR 2000-
HOWARD UNIVERSITY SUMMER PROGRAM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF
WESTERN CAPE SOUTH AFRICA 1996- 2001
Advisor: African National Congress (South Africa) Constitutional Committee 1991-1994
Consultant:
UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE WEST
BANK AND GAZA 1996
Independent contractor hired by the State University of New York at Albany to assist the
Palestinian Legislative Council with drafts of the Basic Law, a constitution for
autonomous Palestine
UNITED NATIONS/ERITREAN MINISTRY OF JUSTICE 2000
consultant on international human rights treaties
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF STATE 2001
consultant specialist at Rwanda Conference on Constitutional Development assisting the
Rwandan Constitutional Commission in developing a post-genocide constitution
Other Foreign Delegations:
EGYPT, ISRAEL & THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES 1989-90
represented National Conference of Black Lawyers (NCBL) on a joint fact-finding
delegation with the Society of Black Lawyers of England & Wales and conducted research
on the Underground Legal System of the Palestinians
SOUTH AFRICA & NAMIBIA 1991
represented NCBL in organizing a 30 person delegation to these 2 countries, including
visits to Johannesburg, Capetown, & Windhoek, Namibia for the 1st anniversary of
Namibian independence
WEST BANK AND GAZA 1996
led delegation of American law students that I taught in South Africa to Palestine to attend
sessions of Palestinian Legislative Council considering interim constitution
NAMIBIA 1998
led delegation of American law students that I taught in South Africa to explore Namibia
legal/political system
MOZAMBIQUE 1999
met with dean of the Eduardo Mondlane Faculty of Law concerning potential linkages
EGYPT 2008
as Vice President of American Society of International Law, represented group in first
meeting with Egyptian Society of International Law
Additional Professional Research Conducted:
CHINA, JAPAN, HONG KONG 1988
one month spent speaking with lawyers & professors to update my course Law in Radically
Different Cultures
EGYPT, ISRAEL & THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES 1993
researched issues relating to Islamic fundamentalism, and the status of Palestinian women
LONDON, ENGLAND 1999
researched incarceration rates of ethnic minorities and women for comparative purposes for
use by the Iowa Commission on Status of Minorities
TUNISIA 2006-2009
researched women s rights after half century of equality law
Foreign Conference panelist:
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SOCIETY OF BLACK LAWYERS OF ENGLAND & WALES/HOPE
STEVENS SYMPOSIUM OF NCBL
BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND 1989
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF DEMOCRATIC LAWYERS
CAPETOWN, SOUTH AFRICA 1991
UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE
QUESTION OF PALESTINE
VIENNA, AUSTRIA 1993
LAW FACULTY TRANSFORMATION WORKSHOP
FT. HARE LAW SCHOOL, SOUTH AFRICA 1996
MUWATIN, THE PALESTINIAN INSTITUTE FOR STUDY OF DEMOCRACY
RAMALLAH, PALESTINE 1997
CARIBBEAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION
PANAMA CITY, PANAMA 1999
UNIVERSITY OF LONDON FACULTY OF LAW
LONDON, ENGLAND 1999
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF LAW SCHOOLS
FIRST INTERNATIONAL EDUCATORS CONFERENCE
FLORENCE, ITALY 2000
LAW PROFESSORS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA CONFERENCE
DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA 2000
UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA GENDER CONFERENCE
PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA 2000
UNIVERSITY OF STOCKHOLM CONFERENCE
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN 2002
CONRAD ADENAUER FOUNDATION/BIRZEIT UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE
AMMAN, JORDAN 2005
UNITED HOLYLAND TRUST NONVIOLENCE CONFERENCE
BETHLEHEM, PALESTINE 2005
SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY LANDSCAPES OF EXILE CONFERENCE
BYRON BAY, AUSTRALIA 2006
LAW & SOCIETY BERLIN, GERMANY 2007
SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY HUMAN RIGHTS CONFERENCE
BYRON BAY, AUSTRALIA 2008
CLUB DE MADRID GLOBAL LEADERS CONFERENCE
ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS 2008
UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA FOOD FOR THOUGHT CONFERENCE 2010
WINDSOR UNIVERSITY MIDDLE EAST CONFERENCE
WINDSOR, CANADA 2011
Other Travel:
Andorra, Bahamas, Barbados, Belgium, Bosnia, Brazil, China, Cyprus, Denmark, France,
Fiji, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Monaco, Morocco,
Netherlands, New Caledonia, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Spain, Poland, Portugal,
Namibia, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Russia, Singapore, Switzerland, Tonga, Trinidad, Tunisia,
Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Zimbabwe
LANGUAGES STUDIED:
French, Swahili, Portuguese
PERSONAL DATA:
Age: 56 Birthdate: August 7, 1956 Nationality: USA
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