Adrien
Katherine Wing
Professor of Law
The University of Iowa
A.B. Princeton University, 1978
M.A. University of California at Los Angeles, 1979
J.D. Stanford Law School, 1982
Professor Wing earned her Master of Arts degree in African Studies. While at Stanford 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. At graduation, she was awarded the Stanford African Student Association Prize.
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 & Leiberman, 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 specializes in both comparative and international law, and has published in such areas as constitutionalism in Namibia, South Africa and Palestine; critical race feminism; legal decision-making in the Palestinian intifada; rape in Bosnia; women's rights in Palestine and South Africa; and foreign sovereign immunity and the act of state doctrine. She is the editor of Critical Race Feminism -- A Reader (New York University Press, 1997) and is on the Board of Editors of the American Journal of Comparative Law.
A student of French, Portuguese, and Swahili, Professor Wing has traveled widely and served on delegations to Angola, Cuba, Egypt, Grenada, Israel, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Namibia, Nicaragua, Palestine, Sudan, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe. In addition, she has conducted research in China, Hong Kong, and Brazil.
Professor Wing has been a consultant to the United Nations, for several years served as a constitutional advisor to the African National Congress, organized an election-observer delegation to South Africa, and has taught at the University of Western Cape. She also has served as an advisor to the Palestinian Legislative Council relative to Palestine's future constitutional options.
Further, Professor Wing has held several leadership positions in the American Society of International Law and is a life member of the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations. 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.
Professor Wing presently teaches Constitutional Law, Critical Race Theory, Comparative Law, and Comparative Constitutional Law, and has taught 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 lectures in the undergraduate African curriculum.
Professor Wing is a member of the New York Bar.
Some of Professor Wing articles about Palestine are:
1. The Palestinian Basic Law: Embryonic Constitutionalism
Journal of International Law, Volume 31 Nos. 2-3, Spring/Summer
1999.
http://lawwww.cwru.edu/cwrulaw/jil/31-2/wing.html
2. Democracy, Constitutionalism and the Future State of
Palestine With a Case Study of Women's Rights
http://www.passia.org/publications/research_studies/K_Wing_Democracy/kwing.htm
3. Judicial Review in Palestine
http://lawcenter.birzeit.edu/publications/wing.html
4. Legal Decision-Making During the Palestinian Intifada:
Embryonic Self-Rule
Yale Journal of International Law, Vol. 18:95, 1993.
5. A Critical Race Feminist Conceptualization of Violence: South African and Palestinian Women Albany Law Review, Vol. 60 no. 3, 1997.