Chris McConnachie
DPhil Law
Chris is a DPhil student, writing on the topic ‘What is Unfair Discrimination? A theory of the South African Constitutional Court’s unfair discrimination jurisprudence’. He is supervised by Dr Tarunabh Khaitan. Chris came to Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship (South Africa-at-large, 2010) and has completed the BCL and MPhil, with distinctions in both degrees. He received his BA and LLB degrees from Rhodes University, South Africa, before clerking for Justice Jafta at the South African Constitutional Court.
Chris is the Chairperson of Oxford Pro Bono Publico, co-administrator of the Oxford Human Rights Hub, and an editor of the Oxford Human Rights Hub Blog.
Publications
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Chris McConnachie, '"With such changes as may be required by the context": the legal consequences of marriage through the lens of section 13 of the Civil Union Act' (2010) 127 South African Law Journal 424.
Cameron McConnachie and Chris McConnachie, 'Concretising the Right to a Basic Education' (2012) 129 South African Law Journal 554.
Interests
Research: Human Rights; Equality and Discrimination Law; Philosophy of Law
