Nicole Fritz is the Executive Director of the Southern Africa Litigation Centre. She obtained her LL.B. (cum laude) from the University of the Witwatersrand and thereafter completed an LL.M. in International Legal Studies at NYU Law School as a Hauser Global Scholar.

She has taught constitutional and international law at the University of the Witwatersrand’s Law School and worked at Fordham Law School’s Crowley Program in International Human Rights in New York. She has also served as law clerk to Justice Richard Goldstone at South Africa’s Constitutional Court. Currently, she is a research associate at the University of Pretoria’s Centre for Human Rights and a contributing editor to The Star newspaper in Johannesburg.