Andrew Novak

Andrew Novak
Associate Professor
Death penalty, comparative criminology, comparative law, human rights litigation, international criminal law, justice theory, LBGT rights, sport history, Sub-Saharan Africa
Andrew Novak is a specialist in international and comparative law and teaches courses related to international and comparative criminal justice and human rights. He previously worked as a government lawyer in the fields of administrative and employment law and taught African Law at American University Washington College of Law. Most of his research has focused on the death penalty in the English-speaking world with a focus on Africa. Other research interests have included comparative executive clemency, constitutional and human rights litigation in the Caribbean and Sub-Saharan Africa, and sport history in colonial Zimbabwe, the subject of his master's thesis. Currently, he is working on a comparative law study of criminal convictions in tribal courts in the United States. He is licensed to practice law in New York and the District of Columbia.
Selected Publications
With Daniel Pascoe, ed. Executive Clemency: Comparative and Empirical Perspectives (Routledge: 2020).
Transnational Human Rights Litigation: Challenging the Death Penalty and Criminalization of Homosexuality in the Commonwealth (Springer: 2019).
The African Challenge to Global Death Penalty Abolition: International Human Rights Norms in Local Perspective (Intersentia: 2016).
Comparative Executive Clemency: The Constitutional Pardon Power and the Prerogative of Mercy in Global Perspective (Routledge: 2015).
The International Criminal Court: An Introduction (Springer: 2015).
The Global Decline of the Mandatory Death Penalty: Constitutional Jurisprudence and Legislative Reform in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean (Ashgate Law: 2014).
The Death Penalty in Africa: Foundations and Future Prospects (Palgrave Macmillan: 2014).
Expanded Publication List
Courses Taught
Law and Justice Around the World
Human Rights and Justice
Social Inequality, Crime, and Justice
Capital Punishment (Special Topics)
Honors Seminar
Values, Ethics, and Criminal Justice Policy
War Crimes Trials: From Nuremberg to The Hague
Study Abroad
Education
Ph.D., Middlesex University London School of Law
J.D., Boston University School of Law
M.Sc. (African Politics), London School of Oriental and African Studies
B.A., International Affairs, George Washington University