Jayne Huckerby

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Jayne Huckerby (@jaynehuckerby.bsky.social) is clinical professor of law and the inaugural director of the International Human Rights Clinic at Duke University School of Law and in Fall 2024 a visiting instructor at Sciences Po Law. She was previously Research Director and Adjunct Professor of Clinical Law at the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU School of Law. Huckerby focuses on fact-finding, research, and advocacy in the areas of gender and human rights, gender and national security, trafficking in persons, gender and children’s rights in armed conflict, and human rights in U.S. foreign policy. She frequently serves as a human rights law expert to international and regional governmental organizations and NGOs, particularly on gender and national security, the nexus between trafficking and terrorism, and women’s rights in conflict and post-conflict settings.

She has written and co-authored numerous articles, book chapters, and human rights reports and she is editor with Margaret L. Satterthwaite, of Gender, National Security, and Counter-Terrorism: Human Rights Perspectives and with Dr. Farnush Ghadery of the Research Handbook on Gender Issues and Human Rights (forthcoming). She is admitted to the New York Bar.

Areas of Expertise: Human Rights Law, National Security Law, International Law, Gender and International Women’s Rights, Trafficking in Persons, Armed Conflict.