Professor Meyersfeld was nominated by Professor Johnathon Klaaren. She is currently the Director of the Centre for Applied Legal Studies . CALS is a civil society organisation based at the School of Law at the University of the Witwatersrand. CALS is also a law clinic, registered with the Law Society of the Northern Provinces. As such, CALS connects the worlds of both academia and social justice. CALS’ vision is a socially, economically and politically just society where repositories of power, including the state and the private sector, uphold human rights. CALS practices human rights law and social justice work with a specific focus on five intersecting programmatic areas, namely Basic Services, Business and Human Rights, Environmental Justice, Gender, and the Rule of Law. It does so in a way which makes creative use of the tools of research, advocacy and litigation, adopts an intersectional and gendered understanding of human rights violations, incorporates other disciplines (such as film and social work) and is conscious of the transformation agenda in South Africa.

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Currently she manages 20 staff members, has international experience having been a Parliamentary advisor to the UK House of Lords(2007 - 2009) and vast academic experience with a Doctorate in Law. She is internationally respected. 

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