Margaret Satterthwaite
Professor of Law, NYU Law
margaret.satterthwaite@nyu.edu
212.998.6657
New York University School of Law.
40 Washington Sq. South
New York, NY 10012.
Margaret Satterthwaite is a Professor of Law at NYU, where she directs the Legal Empowerment and Judicial Independence Clinic and serves as faculty director of both the Robert and Helen Bernstein Institute for Human Rights and the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, while also holding the role of UN Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers. Her work bridges scholarship and practice, with research on human rights fact-finding, global monitoring, data visualization, trauma and resilience, gender and national security, Haiti, and counter-terrorism. Before joining the NYU faculty in 2006, she built a long career in human rights advocacy, including co-founding Amnesty International USA’s program on sexual orientation-based persecution, working in human rights education, serving as an investigator for Haiti’s National Truth and Justice Commission, clerking for Judge Betty Fletcher and at the International Court of Justice, and consulting for the United Nations. She has also advised major international organizations, served on boards of leading human rights groups, and received several awards recognizing her teaching and contributions to justice and equality.