Professor Margaret Satterthwaite joins PRISM as a regular contributor

I would like to welcome Professor Margaret Satterthwaite to the PRISM family of respected contributors.

Dr. Satterthwaite co-directs the International Human Rights Clinic and is one of the Faculty Directors of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (CHRGJ) at New York University School of Law.  Her research and advocacy focuses on the human rights impacts of terrorism and counter-terrorism, and on economic and social rights.

Professor Satterthwaite has worked for a variety of human rights organizations, including Amnesty International, Human Rights First, and the Commission de Verité et de Justice (Haitian Truth and Justice Commission) and has authored or co-authored more than ten human rights reports.

She has engaged in human rights work in countries such as Haiti, Nigeria, Northern Ireland, the United States, and Yemen.  She serves on the Advisory Panel of Experts to the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Protecting Human Rights While Countering Terrorism (Prof. Martin Scheinin) and the National Security Task Force of the New York City Bar Association.