A public seminar by Professor Penny Andrews, CUNY

Presented by the Institute of Criminology

Date: Tuesday 5 November, 2002

Time: 6:00 - 7:30pm

Venue: Minter Ellison Conference room, level 13, Sydney University Law School, 173-175 Phillip Street, Sydney

Registration: (payment can be made in advance or on the night): $10 / $5

Pre-registration is essential as places are limited. Refreshments will be served.

Speaker: Penelope Andrews 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 in the areas of anti-discrimination law and policy, and Aborigines and the 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. She has written extensively on human rights issues in the South African and Australian contexts, with particular emphasis on the rights of women and black people. She is active in a variety of international human rights and peace organisations, including as vice president of the South African-American Organization. She is a contributing author of the book "The Post-Apartheid Constitutions: Reflections on South Africa's Basic Law" (Ohio University Press and Witwatersrand University Press).