Andrea Armstrong | |
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![]() Armstrong pictured outside Loyola University New Orleans in 2023 | |
Born | 1976 or 1977 |
Academic background | |
Education | New York University (B.A.) Princeton University (M.P.A.) Yale University (J.D.) [1] |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Legal studies |
Sub-discipline | Incarceration law |
Institutions | Loyola University New Orleans College of Law |
Andrea Armstrong (born 1976 or 1977) is an American legal scholar writing on the topic of incarceration law. [2] [3] She is the Dr. Norman C. Francis Distinguished Professor of Law at the Loyola University New Orleans College of Law. [2] [1] In 2023,she was named a MacArthur Fellow. [3]
Armstrong graduated from New York University in 1996,receiving a B.A. [2] She then received an M.P.A. from Princeton University in 2001. [4] In 2007,she received a J.D. from Yale Law School. [2] [1] Following her law school graduation,she was a clerk for Helen G. Berrigan,a district judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. [1] [4]