Margaret Satterthwaite Bernstein Institute for Human Rights, Global Justice Clinic at NYU School of Law

Margaret Satterthwaite is the faculty director of the Robert and Helen Bernstein Institute for Human Rights and a faculty director of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (CHRGJ). She is a Professor of Clinical Law and director of the Legal Empowerment and Judicial Independence Clinic. She currently serves as the UN Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers. Margaret’s research interests include legal empowerment, vicarious trauma and wellbeing among human rights workers, and interdisciplinary methods in human rights. Before joining the academy, she clerked for Judge Betty Fletcher of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the judges of the International Court of Justice, and worked for a number of human rights organizations, including Amnesty International, Human Rights First, and the Commission Nationale de Verité et de Justice in Haiti. She has authored or co-authored more than a dozen human rights reports and dozens of scholarly articles and book chapters. Meg has worked as a consultant to numerous UN agencies and special rapporteurs and has served on the boards of several human rights organizations.