Catherine (Kate) O’Regan was born in Liverpool, England but grew up in Cape Town, South Africa. She obtained a BA and an LLB at the University of Cape Town, an LLM at the University of Sydney in Australia and a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science. During the 1980s, she worked as an attorney in Johannesburg specialising in labour law and land rights law. At the end of that decade, she joined the faculty of the University of Cape Town where she taught civil procedure, evidence and labour law. In 1994, she was appointed a judge of the newly established Constitutional Court of South Africa. Her fifteen year term of office came to an end in 2009. Since then she has served as an ad hoc judge of the Namibian Supreme Court, chairperson of the United Nations Internal Justice Council (since 2008), President of the International Monetary Fund Administrative Tribunal and as a visiting professor at the University of Oxford and an honorary professor at the University of Cape Town.
Kate O’Regan is the author of Undoing Humiliation, Fostering Equal Citizenship: Human Dignity in South Africa’s Sexual Orientation Equality Jurisprudence.
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