Jackie Dugard is a Senior Lecturer in the discipline of Human Rights and Director of Graduate Studies at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights. She joined ISHR in the Fall of 2022. With a background in law and social sciences - BA (Hons) & LLB (Wits); MPhil & PhD (Cambridge); and LLM (Essex) - Jackie focuses on power and exclusion. She has published widely on socio-economic rights (especially the rights to housing, land, and water), property law, access to justice, the role of law and courts in social change, protest and social movements, and gender-based violence.
