Margaret Satterthwaite Bernstein Institute for Human Rights, Global Justice Clinic at NYU School of Law

Margaret (Meg) is a Professor of Clinical Law, Faculty Director of the Bernstein Institute for Human Rights, Faculty Director of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, and the Director of the Global Justice at NYU School of Law. Her research interests include legal empowerment, vicarious trauma and wellbeing among human rights workers, and interdisciplinary methods in human rights. Before joining the academy, she clerked for Judge Betty Fletcher of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the judges of the International Court of Justice, and worked for a number of human rights organizations, including Amnesty International, Human Rights First, and the Commission Nationale de Verité et de Justice in Haiti. She has authored or co-authored more than a dozen human rights reports and dozens of scholarly articles and book chapters. Meg serves on the boards of Digital Democracy and the Global Initiative for Economic and Social Rights.