Cameron-Wong McDermott

Cameron is as a Lecturer in Social Change and Clinical Legal Education. He holds undergraduate and professional qualifications from the University of Glasgow and qualified as a solicitor in 2016. From 2016 to 2020, he served as a legal officer at the European Court of Human Rights, and has previously worked in legal and policy roles at the Equality and Human Rights Commission and the Children and Young People’s Commissioner Scotland. He works within the Glasgow Open Justice Centre, where he leads on the development and management of partnerships and clinic-based projects at the School of Law. His clinical practice sits at the intersection of law, social justice, and community empowerment. He is a director of the Community Legal Education Programme, which aims to enhance the legal literacy and capability of vulnerable and marginalised groups. Cameron is particularly interested in understanding and exploring how movement lawyering, whereby lawyers support marginalised communities to build power and work towards achieving systemic change, relying on a diverse range of legal and political tools, can be applied in Scotland.