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    Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission

    Andrea J. Martin

    Commissioner

    Andrea J. Martin is an Assistant Professor of Law at Penn State Dickinson Law and co-founder and Director of the Center for Jewish Legal Studies. Her work focuses on developing legal frameworks to identify and address discrimination and combat antisemitism, including its contemporary manifestations in academic, institutional, and public life. Through scholarship, education, and collaboration, she seeks to strengthen civil-rights protections and advance the development of Jewish Legal Studies in the United States and internationally.

    Professor Martin’s research focuses on constitutional law, antidiscrimination law, civil-rights enforcement, and the evolution of antisemitism from historical to contemporary forms. 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 presented her work at law schools and academic institutions across the country, including Cardozo, UCLA, the University of Pennsylvania, Hofstra, and Villanova. As a scholar in the emerging field of Jewish Legal Studies, she develops legal and policy frameworks designed to inform public discourse, support civil-rights enforcement, and equip institutions, policymakers, and litigators to respond effectively to antisemitism.

    Professor Martin currently serves on the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission and on the Law Faculty Consultation Committee advising the Claims Conference’s Holocaust, Antisemitism and the Law (HALL) Center. She is also a Fellow of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and a Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism & Policy (ISGAP).

    At Penn State Dickinson Law, Professor Martin teaches The Holocaust and the Law and Legal Analysis & Writing. Before entering academia, she served as a Special Assistant Attorney General in Rhode Island’s Appellate Division, where she argued cases before the Rhode Island Supreme Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. She also served on the Rhode Island Governor’s Commission on Prejudice and Bias, contributing to the development of state hate-crime legislation and advising law enforcement on bias-related prosecutions. Earlier in her career, she spent twelve years as a strategic legal advisor in the corporate sector, with a focus on employment and labor law.