Brickhill Jason
Jason Brickhill
About
Date of call
2010
Qualifications
LLB magna cum laude (UCT), MSt with distinction (Oxon), DPhil (Oxon)
Jason has a varied practice with emphasis on constitutional law, administrative and regulatory law, international human rights law and labour law. He appears regularly in the superior courts, particularly the Constitutional Court.
Jason has an LLB from the University of Cape Town in 2003, graduating magna cum laude and as top student. He obtained his postgraduate degrees from the University of Oxford: an MSt in international human rights law (with distinction) in 2009; and a DPhil in Law in 2022, as a Clarendon scholar. His DPhil examined the impact of strategic litigation in South Africa. It was awarded the Subedi Prize for the best doctoral dissertation in law at Oxford.
Before joining the Bar, Jason served as law clerk to Justice Kate O’Regan at the Constitutional Court and worked as an attorney at Bowmans and the Legal Resources Centre (LRC). He later served as in-house counsel and headed the litigation teams at the LRC and the Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (SERI).
Jason is a visiting faculty member at the University of Oxford, where he teaches economic, social and cultural rights and supervises dissertations at master’s level, as an Academic Affiliate of the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights and visiting fellow at Trinity College. He is also affiliated to the University of Cape Town and the University of the Witwatersrand. He publishes widely in the fields of constitutional law and human rights. He is editor-in-chief of South African Constitutional Law (Juta, 2023) and a co-author of Constitutional Litigation (Juta, 2013).