Jayne Huckerby

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Jayne Huckerby (@jaynehuckerby ) is Clinical Professor of Law and the Director of the International Human Rights Clinic at Duke University School of 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 equality and constitution-making, national security, human trafficking, transitional justice, 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, human rights, and counter-terrorism and P/CVE. She recently was an advisor to, and witness for, the North Carolina Commission of Inquiry on Torture and has also served as a human rights consultant with UN Women on gender equality and constitutional reform; women in conflict prevention, conflict, and post-conflict contexts; and gender and human rights indicators in national security policies.

She is editor with Margaret L. Satterthwaite, of Gender, National Security, and Counter-Terrorism: Human Rights Perspectives (2013) and recent publications include Feminism and International Law in the Post 9/11 Era, 39 Fordham Int’l L.J. 533 (2016) and Tightening with Purse Strings: What Countering Terrorism Financing Costs Gender Equality and Security (2017) (with Women Peacemakers Program).