Justin Winchester

Biography

Justin holds a BCom degree (with distinctions in Economics and Law) and an LLB (for which he awarded the Juta Law Prize and Judge Schock Prize for graduating top of his class) both from the University of Cape Town (UCT). During his studies, Justin was an active student leader and represented UCT in debating internationally. He has worked extensively as a teaching and research assistant in various legal fields, and is a decorated writer having won the Solly Kessler Memorial Prize for the best essay on a topic of constitutional law (2021), the National Yunus Mohamed Public Interest Award (2022), and has been published in the South African Journal on Human Rights (2022). South African by birth, Lebanese by heritage, and queer by luck, Justin is empowered by his families – biological and chosen – to create the just and loving world they have taught him to envision. Fascinated by the public-private divide and the intersection of economics and law, he intends to achieve this vision through studies at Oxford focusing on the role that private persons can play in the achievement of economic justice and substantive equality in South Africa.