Meg Satterthwaite

Margaret Satterthwaite (LinkedIn – X) is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers. She is a Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, where she directs the Legal Empowerment and Judicial Independence Clinic and serves as a faculty director of the Robert and Helen Bernstein Institute for Human Rights and co-faculty director of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice. Her scholarship focuses on access to justice, legal empowerment, judicial independence, and methodological innovation in human rights, among other topics, and she has published several edited volumes and dozens of articles and book chapters.

Areas of Expertise: Human Rights Law, Legal Empowerment, Judicial Independence, Access to Justice, International Law, Gender Issues, Rendition and the Law of Informal Transfer