<span class="vcard">Jayne Huckerby</span>

Jayne Huckerby

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Jayne Huckerby (@jaynehuckerby.bsky.social) is clinical professor of law and the inaugural director of the International Human Rights Clinic at Duke University School of Law and in Fall 2024 a visiting instructor at Sciences Po Law. She was previously Research Director and Adjunct Professor of Clinical Law at the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU School of Law. Huckerby focuses on fact-finding, research, and advocacy in the areas of gender and human rights, gender and national security, trafficking in persons, gender and children’s rights in armed conflict, and human rights in U.S. foreign policy. She frequently serves as a human rights law expert to international and regional governmental organizations and NGOs, particularly on gender and national security, the nexus between trafficking and terrorism, and women’s rights in conflict and post-conflict settings.

She has written and co-authored numerous articles, book chapters, and human rights reports and she is editor with Margaret L. Satterthwaite, of Gender, National Security, and Counter-Terrorism: Human Rights Perspectives and with Dr. Farnush Ghadery of the Research Handbook on Gender Issues and Human Rights (forthcoming). She is admitted to the New York Bar.

Areas of Expertise: Human Rights Law, National Security Law, International Law, Gender and International Women’s Rights, Trafficking in Persons, Armed Conflict.

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Afghan burqa-clad women walk past a Taliban security personnel along a street in Jalalabad
A woman clad in mask due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, sits outside a tent near a water cistern at Camp Roj, housing family members of people accused to belong to the Islamic State (IS) group who were relocated from al-Hol camp, in the countryside near al-Malikiyah (Derik) in Syria's northeastern Hasakah province on September 30, 2020.
French Jihadist Melina Boughedir carries her son as she arrives to court in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on February 19, 2018. She walks into a wooden caged area.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
A protester looks at riot police officers during a protest against the government of President Sebastian Piñera on March 20, 2020 in Santiago, Chile.
South African LGBTIQ community holds banner reading "Stop HIV & TB Discrimination #RespectDiversity"
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is joined by commission chair Harvard Professor Mary Ann Glendon while announcing the formation of the Commission on Unalienable Rights during a news conference at the Department of State, on July 8, 2019 in Washington, DC.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is joined by commission chair Harvard Professor Mary Ann Glendon while announcing the formation of a commission to redefine human rights, based on “natural law and natural rights”, during a news conference at the Department of State, on July 8, 2019 in Washington, DC.
Women and children sit crammed into the back of a truck while they flee the Islamic State (IS) group's embattled holdout of Baghouz on February 14, 2019.
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