Margaret Satterthwaite
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3 January 1969
Margaret Satterthwaite | |
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| Born | Margaret Lockwood Satterthwaite 3 January 1969 |
| Known for | United Nations Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges |
Margaret Lockwood Satterthwaite (born 3 January 1969)[citation needed] is an American legal scholar serving as the special rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers for the United Nations. She has been involved in legal cases including those in Kiribati and the United Kingdom where the government was planning to overrule the judiciary.
Satterthwaite completed a BA in writing, Literature and Gender with a Jacob Burns Scholarship in May 1990[1] at Eugene Lang College of the New School for Social Research in New York. She received her master's degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz[2] in Literature in 1995.[1]
She clerked for Judge Betty Binns Fletcher[citation needed] at the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and at the International Court of Justice in The Hague.[3] She received her J.D. degree from the New York University School of Law magna cum laude.[2]
Satterthwaite is Professor of Clinical Law at New York University School of Law, where she heads the Global Justice Clinic.[4][5] She became the faculty director of the Robert and Helen Bernstein Institute for Human Rights in 2015.[4] She led the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice starting in 2006.[4]
In 2013, she and Jayne C. Huckerby published their book, Gender, National Security and Counter-terrorism: Human Rights Perspectives. It includes work by a variety of authors, and it includes a chapter by Satterthwaite on measuring the United States Agency for International Development's work to counter violent extremism.[6][7]
