Meg Satterthwaite
Just Security Alumna
Margaret Satterthwaite (@SRjudgeslawyers) is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers. She is a Professor of Clinical 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 the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice. Her scholarship focuses on access to justice, legal empowerment, counter-terrorism, and methodological innovation in human rights, among other topics, and she has published several edited volumes and dozens of articles and book chapters. She is also on LinkedIn.
Areas of Expertise: Human Rights Law, Legal Empowerment, National Security Law, Access to Justice, Targeted Killings, International Law, Gender Issues, Rendition and the Law of Informal Transfer
Articles by this author:
Afghan Lawyers on Rule of Law’s Frontlines Need Urgent International Support
by Meg Satterthwaite and Richard Bennett
Jan 25th, 2023
Two Regional Human Rights Tribunals Forge Ahead Despite Trump’s Attacks on International Institutions
by Sara Robinson and Meg Satterthwaite
Aug 25th, 2020
Trump’s “Unalienable Rights” Commission Likely to Promote Anti-Rights Agenda
by Jayne Huckerby, Sarah Knuckey and Meg Satterthwaite
Jul 9th, 2019
“Zero Tolerance” and the Detention of Children: Torture under International Law
by Meg Satterthwaite and Rebecca Riddell
Jun 21st, 2018
“Resources for Resilience”: New Site Launched to Promote Resilience & Mental Health in the Human Rights Field
by Sarah Knuckey and Meg Satterthwaite
Jun 8th, 2018
Explainer on the Legal Obligation Not to Return Refugees and How Trump’s Exec Order Breaks It
by Meg Satterthwaite and Alexandra Zetes
Feb 4th, 2017
Preview: Lithuania to Face Questioning by UN Committee against Torture about “Black Sites”
May 9th, 2014
SSCI Report Names Djibouti as Host to CIA “Black Site,” as Case Pends before the African Commission
May 2nd, 2014
The SSCI Report and the Right to the Truth about the CIA’s Secret Detention and Extraordinary Rendition Program
Apr 3rd, 2014
Italian Court of Cassation Reverses Convictions of Italian Intelligence Agents Involved in Bush-Era Extraordinary Rendition
Feb 25th, 2014