1. Margaret Lockwood Satterthwaite was born on 3 January 1969 and is an American legal scholar serving as the special rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers for the United Nations.
11 Facts About Margaret Satterthwaite
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Margaret Satterthwaite has been involved in legal cases including those in Kiribati and the United Kingdom where the government was planning to overrule the judiciary.
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Margaret Satterthwaite received her master's degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz in Literature in 1995.
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Margaret Satterthwaite clerked for Judge Betty Binns Fletcher at the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and at the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
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Margaret Satterthwaite is Professor of Clinical Law at New York University School of Law, where she heads the Global Justice Clinic.
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Margaret Satterthwaite became the faculty director of the Robert and Helen Bernstein Institute for Human Rights in 2015.
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Margaret Satterthwaite led the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice starting in 2006.
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Margaret Satterthwaite had ordered that the Australian judge David Lambourne who was married to the leader of the opposition should be deported.
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Margaret Satterthwaite had been debarred from practicing law in 2019 following a dispute with a judge.
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Margaret Satterthwaite has asked Satterthwaite to intervene in the case which resulted in him being barred from practicing law.
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Margaret Satterthwaite said that the governments changes to the law "constitute an interference with the independence of the judiciary and a violation of international law".