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Professor Adrien Wing

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Editor of The Law Unbound!: A Richard Delgado Reader, with Jean Stefancic. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2007, xii, 431 pages.
  • “A Truth and Reconciliation Commission for Palestine/Israel: Healing Spirit Injuries? (War Crimes Symposium),” 17 Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems 139 (2008), 25 pages.
  • “Women’s Rights and Africa’s Evolving Landscape: The Women’s Protocol of the Banjul Charter,” in Africa: Mapping New Boundaries in International Law, edited by Jeremy I. Levitt. Oxford: Hart, 2008, at 13, 21 pages.

Adrien Katherine Wing

Bessie Dutton Murray Professor

Adrien Wing is the Bessie Dutton Murray Professor at the University of Iowa College of Law. Additionally, she is the Director of the summer abroad program in Arcachon, France and will be the onsite director for the spring 2010 semester abroad program in London. She is the former Associate Dean for Faculty Development 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.

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:

Law in the Muslim World [pdf]

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