Adrien Wing
Overview
Adrien Wing is the Associate Dean for International and Comparative Law Programs and the Bessie Dutton Murray Professor at the University of Iowa College of Law, where she has taught since 1987. Additionally, she serves as the Director of the University of Iowa Center for Human Rights, as well as Director of the Paris, France Summer Abroad Program.
After receiving her Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton with high honors in 1978, Professor Wing earned her Master of Arts degree in African studies from UCLA in 1979. She obtained her Doctorate of Jurisprudence degree in 1982 from Stanford Law School.
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 & Lieberman, specializing in international law issues regarding Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America.
Professor Wing has advised the founding fathers and mothers of three constitutions: South Africa, Palestine, and Rwanda.
Wing teaches Sex-Based Discrimination, Critical Race Theory, and Law in the Muslim World. Author of more than 160 publications, Wing is the editor of Critical Race Feminism: A Reader and Global Critical Race Feminism: An International Reader, both from NYU Press. She is co-editor of the Richard Delgado Reader and Family Law and Gender in the Middle East and North Africa: Change and Stasis since the Arab Spring.
Further, Wing has held leadership positions in various organizations. She currently serves on the: American Journal of International Law Board of Editors; Council of the American Bar Association Section on Legal Education; Princeton Class of 78 Executive Committee; Blacks of the American Society of International Law Task Force; American Journal of Comparative Law Board of Editors, and as a law school inspector for the American Bar Association.
Research areas
- Race and gender discrimination
- International scholarship emphasizes two regions: Africa, especially South Africa; and the Middle East
Teaching areas
- Sex-based Discrimination
- Critical Race Theory
- Law in the Muslim World
Professional affiliations and memberships
- American Bar Association
- American Branch, International Law Association
- American Law Institute
- American Society of International Law
- Society of American Law Teachers
- Association of Black Princeton Alumni
- Council on Foreign Relations
- National Bar Association
- New York Bar
Awards and honors
- American Journal of International Law Board of Editors
- University of Iowa College of Law Community Award
- Goler Butcher Medal, American Society of International Law
- Counsellor, American Society of International Law
- UI African American Studies Cultural Engagement Award
- National Black Pre-Law Legal Education Access & Diversity Champion Award
- University of Iowa College of Law Diversity Award
- Iowa National Bar Association Journey Award
- Princeton University Class of 1978 Service Award
- Iowa Women’s Foundation Ovation Tribute
- National Black Prelaw Legal Education Access & Diversity Champion Award
- Regents Award for Faculty Excellence (Iowa)
- Clyde Ferguson Award from Association of American Law Schools Minority Section
- Lena O. Smith Award from Minnesota Black Women Lawyers Network
- Distinguished Achievement Award from University of Iowa
- Gertrude Rush Award from Iowa National Bar Assn and Iowa Women’s Bar Assn
- Newark Academy (NJ) Distinguished Alumni Award
- University of Iowa African Student Association Diversity Award
- Haywood Burns & Shanara Gilbert Award from Northeastern Law Professors of Color
- Vice President, Princeton Class of 1978
