Andrea J. Martin is an Assistant Professor of Law at Penn State Dickinson Law and co-founder of the Center for Jewish Legal Studies. Her research encompasses constitutional law, anti-discrimination law, and the study of historical and contemporary antisemitism. Through her scholarship in the emerging field of Jewish Legal Studies, she develops legal frameworks and advances strategies to influence legal, governmental, and institutional policies that combat antisemitism and protect civil rights. Dedicated to bridging scholarship and practice, she partners with governmental and non-governmental agencies to strengthen protections against antisemitism and advance Jewish civil rights worldwide.
As co-founder, with Rona Kaufman, of the Center for Jewish Legal Studies, Professor Martin advances legal frameworks to combat antizionism and other forms of Jew hatred through legal scholarship, professional collaboration, education, and Israel engagement. Her scholarship has been published in leading journals, including the Yale Law & Policy Review, Brooklyn Law Review, Boston University Law Review online, and Pepperdine Law Review. She has been invited to present her research at several organizations and law schools, including the Brandeis Center, the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, the Maurice A. Dean School of Law at Hofstra University, and the Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law.
Professor Martin currently serves on the Law Faculty Consultation Committee, advising the Claims Conference’s forthcoming Holocaust, Antisemitism and the Law (HALL) Center, the Steering Committee for the Antisemitism and the Law Conference, is a Board Member of Penn State Hillel, and serves as a faculty advisor for the Jewish Law Students Association.
Before entering academia, Professor Martin served in Rhode Island as a Special Assistant Attorney General in the Appellate Division, where she argued cases before the RI Supreme Court and the First Circuit Court of Appeals. She also served on the Rhode Island Governor’s Commission on Prejudice and Bias, where she drafted state hate crime legislation and advised state police on bias-related prosecutions. She also worked as a strategic legal advisor in the corporate sector for twelve years.
