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Catherine A. Admay, Senior Lecturer and Assistant Director of Graduate Studies  

Office Location: 302 Towerview Dr, RH 282, Sanford School of Public Policy, Durham, NC 27708-0237
Duke Box: 90237
Email Address: admay@duke.edu

Areas of Expertise

  • Health Policy, Global Health
  • International
    • Conflict Prevention and Peacekeeping
    • Human Rights
    • International and Comparative Law
    • International Development
    • Social Policy
    • U.S. Foreign Policy

Education:
J.D., Yale University, 1992
BA (Philosophy, magna cum laude), Yale College, 1988
B.A., Yale University, 1988

Research Categories: Admay's teaching and research interests are in the areas of human rights, law and development, global health, comparative constitutional law of socio-economic rights, conflict transformation, and interdisciplinary engagements with law (ethics, arts, storytelling).

Teaching (Spring 2024):

  • Pubpol 646s.01, Strategic storytelling Synopsis
    Rubenstein 149, TuTh 01:25 PM-02:40 PM
  • Pubpol 789.04, Mini-seminars in idp Synopsis
    Rubenstein 149, F 01:40 PM-04:10 PM

Recent Publications

  1. Admay, CA; Thomas Nicholson, TRN; Aaron Shakow, AS; Salmaan Keshavjee, KS. "Double Standards in Global Health: Medicine, Human Rights Law and Multidrug-Resistant TB Treatment Policy." Health and human rights 18.1 (June, 2016): 85-101.

Highlight:

JD, Yale Law School, 1992
BA, magna cum laude, Yale College, 1988

Catherine Admay taught at NYU Law School (1994-96) and Duke Law School (1996-2002) before joining, as visiting faculty, the departments of Political Science and Public Policy/Duke Center for International Development. Admay now serves as Lecturer of Public Policy and a Faculty Affiliate to Duke’s Global Health Institute. She co-founded NYU Law's first international law clinic (serving the government of Eritrea and civil society organizations) and founded and directed Duke Law School's first international development law clinic (serving the government of South Africa and civil society organizations). She has served as a legal consultant to the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission (report issued May, 2006) and as a legal scholar contributing to the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (report issued October, 1998).

Admay worked for the Legal Resources Centre in Pretoria and Gazankulu, South Africa, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the Office of the Legal Advisor in the United States Department of State, and with private law firms in Washington, D.C. and Seattle. She clerked for Hon. Betty Binns Fletcher of the United States Court of Appeals on the 9th Circuit in Seattle, Washington.

Admay's teaching and research interests are in the areas of human rights, law and development, global health, comparative constitutional law of socio-economic rights, conflict transformation, and interdisciplinary engagements with law (ethics, arts, storytelling).

Bio/Profile
Catherine Admay taught at NYU Law School (1994-96) and Duke Law School (1996-2002) before joining, as visiting faculty, the departments of Political Science and Public Policy/Duke Center for International Development. Admay is a Faculty Affiliate to Duke’s Global Health Institute. She co-founded NYU Law's first international law clinic (serving the government of Eritrea and civil society organizations) and founded and directed Duke Law School's first international development law clinic (serving the government of South Africa and civil society organizations). She has served as a legal consultant to the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission (report issued May, 2006) and as a legal scholar contributing to the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (report issued October, 1998).

Admay worked for the Legal Resources Centre in Pretoria and Gazankulu, South Africa, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the Office of the Legal Advisor in the United States Department of State, and with private law firms in Washington, D.C. and Seattle. She clerked for Judge Betty Fletcher of the United States Court of Appeals on the 9th Circuit in Seattle, Washington.

Catherine A. Admay