Who We Are

Rona Kaufman
Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Center for Jewish Legal Studies, Associate Professor of Law, Kline School of Law, Duquesne University

Professor Kaufman is a clear academic voice on Israel and antisemitism. Since October 7th, she has emerged as a nationally recognized scholar and advocate. Her Jewish Legal Studies work is informed by her expertise in feminist legal theory, as well as constitutional, employment discrimination, family, and gender law.

Public Impact and Media Presence: Professor Kaufman's Israel and Antisemitism Explainer video series has generated over 2.5 million impressions across Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn. She has been featured in the New York Post, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Jerusalem Post, Hadassah Magazine, and appeared on Fox News, The Free Press, and NBC News. She blogs for the Times of Israel.

Andrea J. Martin
Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Center for Jewish Legal Studies, Assistant Professor of Law, Penn State Dickinson Law

Professor Martin is a leading scholar and advocate for combating antisemitism in higher education. She brings expertise in anti-discrimination law, constitutional law, and the study of historical and modern forms of antisemitism.  Professor Martin also teaches Holocaust education and is certified in education and curriculum design through the Belfer National Conference for Holocaust Education. 

Select Credentials and Achievements: Professor Martin is pioneering the emerging field of Jewish Legal Studies and a leading academic voice in developing legal frameworks to combat antizionism and protect Jewish civil rights. She is a member of the Steering Committee for the Law and Antisemitism Conference, a Penn State Hillel Board Member, faculty advisor to the Jewish Law Student Association.

Select Publications

• Rona Kaufman, Never Again: Zionism and the Jewess, 19 FIU L. Rev. 737 (2025).

• Andrea J. Martin, From Ambiguity to Accountability: The Case for a Legal Definition of Antisemitism in Academia, 2025 Pepp. L. Rev. 19 (2025).

• Rona Kaufman, Understanding Zionism and Anti-Zionism, Kline School of Law of Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA January 24, 2024,

• Andrea J. Martin, Balancing Freedom of Expression and Equality On College Campuses In the Wake of Intensified Antisemitism, 90 Brooklyn Law Review 67 (2024).

• Rona Kaufman, Feminist Legal Theory and Stone’s Panes of the Glass Ceiling, 17 FIU L. Rev. 771 (2023).

• Rona Kaufman, Patriarchal Violence, 71 Buff. L. Rev. 509 (2023).

• Rona Kaufman, Privacy Pre- and Post-Dobbs, 61 Duq. L. Rev. 62 (2023).

• Rona Kaufman, A Century Since Suffrage: How Did We Get Here? Where Will We Go? How Will We Get There?, 59 Duq. L. Rev. 1 (2021).

• Rona Kaufman Kitchen, Constrained Choice: Mothers, the State, and Domestic Violence, 24 Temp. Pol. & Civ. Rts. L. Rev. 375 (2015).

• Rona Kaufman Kitchen, Holistic Pregnancy: Rejecting the Theory of the Adversarial Mother, 26 Hastings Women’s L.J. 207 (2015).

• Rona Kaufman Kitchen, Eradicating the Mothering Effect: Women as Workers and Mothers, Successfully and Simultaneously, 26 Wisc. J. of L. Gender & Society 167 (2011).