Jackie Dugard

Sen. Jackie Dugard (BA, MPhil, PhD, LLB, LLM) is a Senior Lecturer at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights (ISHR), where she is the outgoing Director of Graduate Studies for the Human Rights Studies MA (HRSMA) program. Prior to joining Columbia in July 2022, she was an Associate Professor of Law at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in South Africa (2014-2022), where she is now a Visiting Professor of Law. With a background in law and social sciences, Jackie has published widely on social- and climate-justice. She is a Global Fellow at the Centre on Law & Social Transformation (University of Bergen, Norway), and an editor of the South African Journal on Human Rights.
Jackie has significant leadership experience - she was a co-founder and the first Executive Director of the non-governmental organization, Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (SERI), and the founding first Director of the Gender Equity Office (GEO) at Wits. As a human rights academic and practitioner, she is committed to governance accountability and improving the working conditions of non-tenure track faculty, as evident in her involvement in the organizing committee for the Contingent Faculty of Columbia University (CFCU-UAW)  unionization process currently underway for non-tenure track colleagues.