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Penelope (Penny) Andrews is a South African and American legal scholar. Andrews is the incoming Dean of the faculty of law at the University of Cape Town.
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Education and early life
Andrews was raised in South Africa under Apartheid. She earned B.A. and LL.B. degrees from the University of Natal, Durban, South Africa, as well as an LL.M. degree from Columbia University School of Law in New York City.
Career
Professor Penelope Andrews is currently Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Cape Town, having taken up this post in early 2016. Previously, Andrews was dean of Albany Law School in Albany, New York, until October 2014. She was the first permanent female president and dean of the law school since its inception in 1851.
Prior to her post at Albany, Andrews was associate dean for academic affairs and professor of law at the City University of New York School of Law. She has also been professor of law and director of international studies at Valparaiso University School of Law in Valparaiso, Ind. Over the course of her career, she has taught law in Germany, Australia, the Netherlands, Scotland, Canada and South Africa.
Andrews' legal scholarship centers on justice for women and people of color across the globe, and she has advocated for the rights of Australia’s indigenous population, people of color in South Africa, and disenfranchised women in Queens, N.Y.
The South African law school at the University of KwaZulu-Natal annually presents an award in her name: The Penelope E. Andrews Human Rights Award. She was a finalist in 2005 for a vacancy on the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the highest court on the country’s constitutional matters. On July 2, 2015, it was announced that she has been appointed Dean of the faculty of law at the University of Cape Town.