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from the issue of April 1, 2004
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Lecture to address women’s rights
Legal scholar Penelope Andrews will examine the state of women’s rights in the turmoil of the modern world in a lecture April 5.
In “From Cape Town to Kabul: Reconceptualizing Women’s Human Rights,” Andrews, a professor of law at the City University of New York School of Law, will explore the pursuit of women’s rights and equality in the face of economic inequalities, political ambiguities, social upheaval and cultural uncertainties. The lecture is free and open to the public and begins at 3:30 p.m. in the Nebraska Union.
Educated in South Africa and the United States, Andrews has taught in Australia, the Netherlands, Scotland, South Africa and the United States. She teaches courses in torts, international law, international human rights law, lawyering and comparative perspectives on race and the law. She earned her B.A. and LL.B. degrees from the University of Natal in Durban, South Africa, and an LL.M. from Columbia Law School in New York. She was the Chamberlain fellow in legislation at Columbia Law School and has worked at the Legal Resources Centre in Johannesburg and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in New York.
Andrews has written extensively on constitutional and human rights issues in the South African, Australian and global contexts, with particular emphasis on the rights of women and people of color.
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