Chris McConnachie

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 a former chairperson of Oxford Pro Bono Publico. He previously served as co-administrator of the Oxford Human Rights Hub and was one of the founding editors of the Oxford Human Rights Hub Blog.