The Kate Stoneman Visiting Professors
Marina Angel, Fall 2006
Professor of Law at
Temple University's Beasley School of Law. B.S., Barnard College;
J.D., Columbia Law School. Focuses on improving the status of women and
minorities in the legal profession and reforming the profession in order to
make their advancement possible. Has aided individual colleagues and
students in career counseling. Since 2001 has compiled statistics on the
status of women in the legal profession within the state of Pennsylvania,
with results presented in the Pennsylvania Bar Association's
"Annual Report Card."
Ann Shalleck, Spring 2006
Professor of
Law, Director of the Women and the Law Program and the Carrington
Shields Scholar at American University's Washington College of Law. She has
expertise in clinical legal education, legal theory, Family Law and child
welfare. She has been a presenter at many conferences on clinical legal
education, gender & the law, and gender and international
human rights; she organized a symposium on domestic violence and
achieving gender equality; and she has authored many books and
articles on clinical education, child welfare and women's rights.
Qudsia Mirza, Fall 2004
Senior lecturer in law at
the University of East London; LL.B., University of East Anglia; LL.M.,
London School of Economics and Political Science. Widely published in the
areas of discrimination law in the United Kingdom and Islamic Law and
regularly advises trade unions, local authorities, and other constituencies
on aspects of discrimination law and legal reform.
Dianne Otto, Spring 2004
Associate professor of
Law at the University of Melbourne. Teaches in the areas of human rights,
international law and criminal law. Research interests include utilizing
feminist, postcolonial and queer theory to reveal voices that are
marginalized by mainstream international legal discourse. Currently
researching economic and social rights in Australia and rethinking notion
of the "indivisibility" of human rights with a focus on gender. Recent
publications include chapters in Reaching Beyond Words: Giving Meaning to
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; Women and International Human Rights
Law; Laws of the Postcolonial; and Security in a Post-Cold War World.
Justice Yvonne Mokgoro, 2003
Judge of the
Constitutional Court of South Africa; B.Juris, LL.B., LL.M., University of
Bophuthatswana; LL.M., University of Pennsylvania. Also, Legal Profession's
Woman of the Year, University of Pretoria: Pretoria Centre for Human
Rights; Professor Emeritus, Department of Jurisprudence and Comparative
Law, University of Pretoria; Professor Emeritus, Department of Indigenous
Law, University of South Africa. Throughout her career she has written
extensively, presented papers and participated in a myriad of international
conference, seminars and workshops in South Africa and around the world, in
sociological jurisprudence and particularly on human rights, customary law,
focusing on the impact of law on society generally, and on women and
children specifically.
Penelope Andrews, 2002
Penelope Andrews, associate
professor, City University of New York Law School at Queens College; B.A.,
LL.B., University of Natal in Durban; LL.M., Columbia University School of
Law. Also visiting professor, University of Natal in Durban, South Africa,
and the University of Maryland School of Law in Baltimore; and lecturer in
the Department of Legal Studies at La Trobe University in Melbourne,
Australia. Contributor, The South African Constitution and the Enforcement
of Rights, South African Journal of Human Rights, Journal of Gender, Race,
and Justice, and Women and International Human Rights Law.
Martha F. Davis, 2000
Martha F. Davis, legal
director for NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund (LDEF) in New York City;
A.B., Harvard; J.D., University of Chicago; B.A., M.A, Oxford University.
At NOW LDEF, oversees advocacy in economic justice, violence against women,
education, reproductive rights, and employment. Author of Brutal Need:
Lawyers and the Welfare Rights Movement, 1960-1973 (Yale UP);
published widely on sex equality, poverty law, and legal history in law
reviews and newspaper op-ed pieces.