Jeanne M. Woods

Henry F. Bonura, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Law
B.A., 1974, Antioch College; J.D., 1981, Temple University.

Professor Jeanne M. Woods is the Henry F. Bonura, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Law at Loyola University College of Law in New Orleans, Louisiana, where she teaches Constitutional Law, Public International Law, International Human Rights, and Law and Poverty.  In 2004 she was a J. William Fulbright Distinguished  Lecturer at China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing, Peoples’ Republic of China.

Prior to entering academia, Professor Woods served as Legislative Counsel for the national legislative office of the American Civil Liberties Union in Washington, D.C., focusing on issues related to national security and civil liberties. She provided legal analysis of constitutional issues in pending federal legislation and administrative regulations; drafted legislation, amendments, and committee report language; prepared and delivered testimony before congressional committees; and lobbied members of Congress and executive branch officials on policies affecting civil liberties. Her successes include the enactment of legislation prohibiting ideological visa denials, discontinuing the censorship of educational films, and prohibiting the revocation of passports on political grounds.

In 1985 Professor Woods organized a United Nations-sponsored tour of southern Africa to investigate and document South African destabilization of the “Frontline” States. She served as an accredited international observer of the first democratic elections in South Africa in 1994, and as an international monitor of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission in June 1997. She is currently a member of the American Society of International Law Section on Human Rights.  She has previously served on the Human Relations Advisory Board of the City of New Orleans, and as the United Nations Liaison Officer for the National Conference of Black Lawyers.

E-mail: woods@loyno.edu
Home Page: http://www.law.loyno.edu/~woods/
Office Phone: 504-861-5424

Publications

Books:

• Human Rights and the Global Marketplace: Economic, Social, and Cultural Dimensions (Transnational Publishers, Inc. 2005) (with Hope Lewis).

Book Chapters/Reports:

• "Emerging Paradigms for Protection of Second Generation Human Rights", in Clare Dalton, ed., Progressive Lawyering, Globalization and Markets: Rethinking Ideology and Strategy (2007)
• “South African Social Rights Jurisprudence,” in Economic Justice: Race, Gender, Identity and Economics, Emma Coleman Jordan & Angela Harris, eds. (Foundation Press 2005).
• Human Rights Violations in the United States: A Report on United States Compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Human Rights Watch and American Civil Liberties Union (1993) (contributor)
• Ending the Cold War at Home, Center for National Security Studies (Washington. D.C. 1991).
• The Crisis in Southern Africa: Report on South Africa's Destabilization of the Frontline States (United Nations Council for Namibia, March 1986).
• Legal Responsibilities of States with Respect to Apartheid, United Nations Centre Against Apartheid (1983).

Articles:

• “Anticipatory Self-Defense and Other Stories,” 14 Kansas Journal of Law and Public Policy 487 (2005).
• “Emerging Paradigms of Protection for “Second Generation” Human Rights,” 6 Loyola Public Interest L J 103 (2005).
• “Justiciable Social Rights as a Critique of the Liberal Paradigm,” 38 Texas International Law Journal 763 (2003).
• “Rights as Slogans: A Theory of Human Rights Based on African Humanism,” 17 National Black Law Journal 52 (Columbia University Edition) (2003).
• “Reconciling Reconciliation,” 3 UCLA. J. Int'l Law & Foreign Affairs 101 (1998)(critique of South African TRC).
• “The Fallacy of Neutrality: Diary of an Election Observer,” 16 Mich. J. Int'l Law 475 (1997)(analysis of S.A. election).
• “Travel That Talks: Toward First Amendment Protection for Freedom of Movement,” 65 George Washington Law Review 106 (1996).
• “Presidential Legislating in the Post-Cold War Era: A Critique of the Barr Opinion on Extraterritorial Arrests,” 14 Boston Univ. J. Int'l L. 1 (1996).
• “Ending the Cold War at Home,” 81 Foreign Policy Magazine 128 (Winter 1990-91) (with Morton Halperin)

Updated November 2, 2007