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Margaret Satterthwaite
UN Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers
Professor, New York University School of Law
Biography
Professor Satterthwaite is an international human rights scholar and practitioner. She is a Professor of Clinical Law at New York University School of Law, where she directs the Global Justice Clinic and serves as a faculty director of the Robert and Helen Bernstein Institute for Human Rights and the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice.
Her scholarship has focused on access to justice, legal empowerment, and methodological innovation in human rights. She has published several edited volumes and dozens of articles and book chapters. Professor Satterthwaite has worked with individuals and communities seeking to realise their rights around the world, including in Guyana, Haiti, Kenya, Nigeria, Northern Ireland, Uganda, the United States, and Yemen. She has litigated in international and domestic fora, including the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights.
Professor Satterthwaite graduated magna cum laude from NYU School of Law. She clerked for a US Court of Appeals judge and subsequently for judges of the International Court of Justice. She has worked for a variety of human rights organisations, including Amnesty International USA, Street Law, Human Rights First, and the Haitian Truth and Justice Commission.
Professor Satterthwaite assumed the role of UN Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers on November 1, 2022. The Rapporteur is an independent human rights expert appointed by the UN Human Rights Council with a broad global mandate focused on human rights issues relating to judicial systems.
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