Margaret L Satterthwaite

Professor

New York University

Current

New York University School of Law

J.D.

1999

Honors: magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, Root-Tilden-Kern Public Interest Scholar, Future Law Teachers Fellowship, Center for International Studies Junior Fellow, Boudin Fellow in Human Rights

University of California, Santa Cruz

M.A.

1995

Honors: Center for Cultural Studies Grant

Eugene Lang College, New School University

B.A. | Writing, Literature and Gender

1990

Honors: Jacob Burns Scholar; GPA 3.97

Foulk Graduation Award

1999

for Outstanding Scholarship and Sincerity

Alumnae Club Award

1999

for Excellence in Scholarship and Extracurricular Activities

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Member

Current

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, New York State

Member

Current

Legal expert

Current

Activities: Legal expert at women s rights and clinical practice training for Nigerian legal professionals, Kano, Nigeria, International League for Human Rights/National Human Rights Commission of Nigeria/UNDP

Supervised International Human Rights Clinic visit to Yemen

Current

Organizing Committee, International Law Weekend

Member

2008 - Current

Root-Tilden-Kern Scholarship Program, NYU School of Law

Faculty Director

2007 - Current

Washington Square Legal Services, Inc.

Member of Board of Directors

2007 - Current

Task Force on National Security, New York City Bar Association

Member

2007 - Current

HEALTH AND HUMAN RIGHTS: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL

Member, Advisory Board

2007 - Current

N.Y.U. JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW & POLITICS

Member, Advisory Board

2006 - Current

Advisory Panel of Experts to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Promotion

Member

2006 - Current

Protection of Human Rights While Countering Terrorism (Martin Scheinin)

Member

2006 - Current

International Human Rights Interest Group, American Society of International Law

Co-Chair

2006 - Current

Legal expert

2004 - Current

Activities: Legal expert on domestic workers delegation to the United Nations Human Rights Commission, Global Rights

Legal expert

2004 - Current

Activities: Legal expert on human rights delegations focusing on economic and social rights in Haiti, Robert F.Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights

Legal expert

2004 - Current

Activities: Legal expert on mission assessing feasibility of creating mobile legal clinics for women in Nigeria,International League for Human Rights/UNDP

Committee on Clinical Legal Education, Association of American Law Schools

Member

2007 - 2009

International Law Committee, New York City Bar Association

Member

2005 - 2008

Board of Directors, Amnesty International USA

Member

2005 - 2007

Association of American Law Schools International Human Rights Law Section

Chair-Elect

2005 - 2006

Consultant

2004 - 2006

Activities: Consultant to the United Nations Development Fund for Women on human rights issues, on retainer

Association of American Law Schools International Human Rights Law Section

Program Chair

2004 - 2005

International Human Rights Committee, New York City Bar Association

Member

2003 - 2005

From  Rendition to Justice to Rendition to Torture: Informal Transfer under International Law, North Carolina Journal of International Law and Commercial Regulation Symposium

November 17, 2007

U.N.C. School of Law

Extraordinary Rendition: State Secrets about the War on Terror

 Renditions,  Disappearances, and Proxy Detentions in the  War on Terror,, Amnesty International USA 2006 Lawyers Conference

University of Washington School of Law

Appearances in National Public Radio

Appearances in Reuters

Appearances in Salon.com.

Appearances in The BBC

Appearances in The History Channel

Appearances in Democracy Now

Appearances in The Associated Press

Appearances in The Canadian Broadcasting Company

Appearances in The Chicago Tribune

Appearances in the Los Angeles Times

Appearances in The Miami Herald

Appearances in The New York Times

Applied International Intersectionality

University of Colorado Department of Sociology

Developing and Expanding Clinics: The Role of Students and Student Organizations, International Human Rights Clinical Legal Education Conference

Boston University School of Law

Documentary, Human Rights, and Questions of Evidence

NYU SCHOOL OF LAW

panel presentation at  Signs of Crisis:Religious Conflict, Human Rights, and the New Documentary Film in Southern Asia,

Extraordinary Rendition, Washington, D.C

American Bar Association, the Center for National Security Law, and the Center on Law, Ethics, and National Security

17th Annual Review of the Field of National Security Law

Extraordinary Rendition 101

Georgetown University School of Law

National Teach-In to Stop Extraordinary Rendition

Extraordinary Rendition and the U.N. Convention Against Torture

United Nations Association

Extraordinary Rendition: Issues of Law and Policy

University of Virginia School of Law and the Judge Advocate General Legal Center and School

Extraordinary Renditions, Disappearances and Proxy Prisons: Navigating the Post-Rasul Moment, International Human Rights Program

From Rendition to Justice to Rendition to Torture: Evidence and Intelligence in the  War on Terror, The Human Rights of Anti-Terrorism colloquium

University of Ottawa Faculty of Law

Inter-State Complicity in Human Rights Violations

International Law Weekend

Just Back from the Human Rights Council, American Society of International Law Annual Meeting

Rendered Meaningless: Extraordinary Rendition and the Rule of Law, George Washington Law Review 75th Anniversary Symposium

GWU Law School

The New Face of Armed Conflict: Enemy Combatants After Hamdan v. Rumsfeld

Rendered Meaningless: Extraordinary Rendition and the Rule of Law, Junior International Law Scholars Conference

Rendition and Secret Detention under National and International Law, Berlin, Germany

presentation at  A European Approach to Rendition,

Rendition and Secret Detention: An Overview of the State of Current Research, The Hague, Netherlands

Clingendael, Netherlands Institute of International Relations

Rendition, Disappearance, and Human Dignity, Faith and Freedom Convocation

Washington, D.C.

Secret Detention in the  War on Terror', Amnesty International Speaker s Panel, St.Bartholomew s Church, New York

The CIA Rendition Program in the Context of Human Rights Violations in the  War on Terror, experts meeting, Warsaw, Poland

European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights

presentation at experts meeting on rendition

The Evolution and Future of Human Rights in the Legal Academy, Harvard Human Rights Journal 20th Anniversary Conference

The Program: Extraordinary Rendition and Enforced Disappearances in the  War on Terror,

National Guantánamo Teach-In, Seton Hall School of Law

The Right of Indigenous Peoples to Meaningful Consent in Extractive Industry Projects,, Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting

The Trust in Indicators: Trying to Measure Human Rights, Association of American Law Schools Annual Conference

 New Voices in Human Rights panel

The U.S. Program of Extraordinary Rendition and Secret Detention, experts meeting, Auswärtiges Amt, Berlin, Germany

meeting on Promoting and Protecting Human Rights While Countering Terrorism

The UN and Counterterrorism: Two Provocations

Counterterrorism and Human Rights Discussion Panel

Torture by Proxy

From Torture to Trial: Guantánamo and Beyond,

Torture by Proxy: The Legality of Extraordinary Rendition

Fordham University School of Law

What Protections Exist Against Return to Torture or Ill-Treatment?, Expert Consultation on Diplomatic Assurances

Jacob Blaustein Institute