Penelope Andrews is an Associate Professor of Law at the City University of New York School of Law.
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African Asylum at a Crossroads
Activism, Expert Testimony, and Refugee Rights
Edited by Iris Berger, Tricia Redeker Hepner, Benjamin N. Lawrance, Joanna T. Tague, and Meredith Terretta
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Foreword by Penelope Andrews
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Afterword by Fallou Ngom
African Asylum at a Crossroads: Activism, Expert Testimony, and Refugee Rights examines the emerging trend of requests for expert opinions in asylum hearings or refugee status determinations. This is the first book to explore the role of court-based expertise in relation to African asylum cases and the first to establish a rigorous analytical framework for interpreting the effects of this new reliance on expert testimony.Over
Post-Apartheid Constitutions
Perspectives on South Africa’s Basic Law
Edited by Penelope Andrews and Stephen Ellmann
In a book which offers a unique range of perspectives on the development of South Africa’s Interim and final Constitutions, scholars, practising lawyers, members of the judiciary and the Human Rights Commission, and political leaders illuminate the many issues of process, substance and context presented by the Constitutions.Essays on process make clear the challenges and the triumphs of South Africa’s constitutional rebirth.
