Catherine Admay, Visiting Professor of Public Policy  

Catherine Admay

Office Location: 282 Rubenstein Hall
Office Phone: (919) 613-9232
Email Address: admay@duke.edu

Mailing Address

Education:
JD, Yale Law School, 1992
BA (Philosophy, magna cum laude), Yale College, 1988

Expertise:
International Law
Global Health
Health and Human Rights
Peace and Conflict Resolution
Social Policy
Leadership

Teaching (Fall 2009):

  • Culanth 80fcs.01, Special topics in focus
    Rubenstein 149, TuTh 11:40 AM-12:55 PM
  • Pubpol 81fcs.01, Focus program special topics
    Rubenstein 149, TuTh 11:40 AM-12:55 PM
  • Pubpol 388.05, Special topics in idp
    Rubenstein 149, MW 10:05 AM-11:20 AM

Research Description: Biography: 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).

Her teaching and research interests are in the areas of public international law and international politics, law and development, global health and international law, human rights in US and abroad, comparative constitutional law of socio-economic rights, interdisciplinary engagements with law (ethics, arts, political theory).

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.