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- Editor of The Law Unbound!: A Richard Delgado Reader, with Jean Stefancic. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2007, xii, 431 pages.
- “Equality: Facially Neutral Rules that Disparately Impact Protected Classes,” in Comparative Constitutional Law 88 (Mark Tushnet & Vikram Amar eds., Oxford Press 2008)
- “Founding Mothers for a Palestinian Constitution,” in Constituting Equality 290 (Susan H. Williams ed., Cambridge Press 2009)(with Hisham Kassim)
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2009 Elected to membership in American Law Institute
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2010 on-site director London Law Consortium
Adrien Katherine Wing
Bessie Dutton Murray Professor
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AB, Princeton University, 1978
MA, University of California at Los Angeles, 1979
JD, Stanford Law School, 1982 - Email adrien-wing@uiowa.edu
- Phone 319-335-9129
- Office 410 Boyd Law Building
- C.V. download PDF
- Bibliography download PDF
- Website courses and resources
- Arcachon Program program information
- London Program program information
Adrien Wing is the Bessie Dutton Murray Professor at the University of Iowa College of Law. Additionally, she is the on-site Director for the London Law Consortium semester abroad program and the director of the summer abroad program in Arcachon, France. She served as the Associate Dean for Faculty Development 2006-2009 as well.
After receiving her Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton with high honors in 1978, Professor Wing earned her Master of Arts degree in African studies from UCLA in 1979. She obtained her Doctorate of Jurisprudence degree in 1982 from Stanford Law School, and was awarded the Stanford African Student Association Prize. While in law school, she served as an editor of the Stanford Journal of International Law, as an intern with the United Nations Council on Namibia, and as Southern Africa Task Force Director of the National Black Law Students Association.
Prior to joining the College of Law faculty in 1987, Professor Wing spent five years in practice in New York City with Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle and with Rabinowitz, Boudin, Standard, Krinsky & Lieberman, specializing in international law issues regarding Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America. She also served as a representative to the United Nations for the National Conference of Black Lawyers.
Professor Wing presently teaches International Human Rights, and Law in the Muslim World. She has taught US Constitutional Law, Critical Race Theory, Comparative Law, Comparative Constitutional Law, Race, Racism & American Law, Law in Radically Different Cultures, and the International and Domestic Legal Aspects of AIDS. She is, in addition, a member of The University of Iowa's interdisciplinary African Studies faculty and North Africa/Middle East faculty groups. During fall 2002, she was a visiting professor at the University of Michigan Law School.
Author of more than 100 publications, Wing is the editor of Critical Race Feminism -- A Reader and Global Critical Race Feminism: An International Reader, both from NYU Press. Her US-oriented scholarship has focused on race and gender discrimination, including topics such as the impact of Hurricane Katrina, gangs, mothering, affirmative action, the war on terrorism, and polygamy in Black America. Her international scholarship has emphasized two regions: Africa, especially South Africa; and the Middle East, in particular the Palestinian legal system. Constitutionalism, women’s rights, rape in Bosnia, Muslim headscarves in France, Tunisian secularism, and Turkish democracy are among the topics of recent articles.
Professor Wing has advised the founding fathers and mothers of three constitutions: South Africa, Palestine, and Rwanda. She organized an election-observer delegation to South Africa, and taught at the University of Western Cape for six summers. She also advised the Eritrean Ministry of Justice on human rights treaties.
An accomplished public speaker, Wing has lectured all over the world, including most recently in New Zealand, Australia, Egypt, and Indonesia. Having studied French, Portuguese, and Swahili, she served on delegations to many nations including Angola, Cuba, Egypt, Grenada, Israel, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Mozambique, Namibia, Nicaragua, Palestine, Panama, Sudan, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe. She has conducted additional research in China, France, Hong Kong, Brazil, London, and Tunisia.
Further, Wing has received numerous honors, and held leadership positions in various organizations. She has been Vice President of the American Society of International Law. Additionally, she has served as Chair of the International Section of the National Conference of Black Lawyers, as a member of the TransAfrica Forum Scholars Council, and on the Board of Directors of the Iowa Peace Institute and the Iowa City Foreign Relations Council, as well as the Stanford Law School Board of Visitors. Iowa Governor Vilsack appointed Professor Wing to the Commission on the African American Prison Population in 1999. She was the Chair of the Association of American Law Schools Minority Section in 2002. She currently serves on the Board of the U.S. Association of Constitutional Law and is on the Board of Editors of the American Journal of Comparative Law as well. Her honors include the distinguished alum award from her high school Newark Academy, and the Clyde Ferguson Award from the American Association of Law Schools. She was elected to membership in the American Law Institute in 2009.
Wing is a life member of the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations and a law school inspector for the American Bar Association and the American Association of Law Schools.
Professor Wing is a member of the New York Bar.
The syllabus for her current course is linked below: