Jeanmarie Fenrich
Director of Special Projects - Africa, Leitner Center for International Law and Justice

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Email: jfenrich@law.fordham.edu

CAREER
Education

FORDHAM, J.D., magna cum laude, 1998



Activities
  • Executive Director, Leitner Center for International Law and Justice (2005-2009)
  • Visiting Assistant Professor, Fordham Law School (2004-05)
  • Secretary, International Human Rights Committee, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York (2003-06)
  • Adjunct Professor, Fordham Law School (Spring 2003, Spring 2004)
  • Litigation Associate, Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler LLP (2001-04)
  • Human Rights Fellow, Crowley Program in International Human Rights (2000-01)
  • Law Clerk, the Honorable John F. Keenan, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (1998-00)
  • Editor-in-Chief, Fordham Law Review


PUBLICATIONS
  • THE FUTURE OF AFRICAN CUSTOMARY LAW, Cambridge University Press (Co-Editor with Paolo Galizzi and Tracy Higgins) (forthcoming 2011)
  • "It's Not OK": New Zealand's Efforts to Eliminate Violence Against Women, Fordham International Law Journal (with Jorge Contesse) (2009)
  • We Will Still Live: Confronting Stigma and Discrimination Against Women Living with HIV/AIDS in Malawi, Fordham International Law Journal (with Chi Mgbako and Tracy E. Higgins) (2008)
  • Gender Equality and Customary Marriage: Bargaining in the Shadow of Post-Apartheid Legal Pluralism, Fordham International Law Journal (with Tracy E. Higgins and Ziona Tanzer) (2008)
  • Promise Unfulfilled: Law, Culture and Women's Inheritance Rights in Ghana, 25 Fordham Int'l L.J. 259 (2002) (with Tracy E. Higgins)
  • The Rehnquist Court's Changed Reading of the Equal Protection Clause in The Context of Voting Rights, 65 Fordham Law Review 1819 (1997)

Leitner Center for International Law and Justice
Fordham University School of Law
33 West 60th Street
New York, NY 10023

Email: LeitnerCenter@law.fordham.edu
Telephone: 212.636.6862
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Courses
Fordham offers one of the most extensive human rights curricula of any law school in the United States


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Faculty and Staff
Catherine Powell
Associate Professor of Law , Director, International Law and the Constitution Initiative
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