Jacqueline Gallinetti is a senior lecturer in the Law Faculty at UWC since January 2009.  Prior to that she was the senior researcher and project co-ordinator of the Children's Rights Project  from  February 2001 to December 2008. She was editor of the Project's quarterly newsletter, Article 40, and the co-ordinator of the Child Justice Alliance, a civil society initiative established to support the Child Justice Bill.

Previously, she practiced as an attorney at the UCT Legal Aid Clinic and for the Legal Aid Board. She was principal attorney at the South Peninsula Legal Aid Clinic from 1999 -2001. She specialised in criminal law, family law and representing children in the Children's Courts. She was admitted as an attorney of the High Court in 1995. She has a BA LLB and a LLM in International Law from the University of Cape Town. She was awarded her doctorate in March 2008. Her thesis topic is entitled, "An assessment of the significance of the International Labour Organisation's Convention 182 in South Africa with specific reference to the Instrumental Use of Children in the Commission of Offences as a Worst Form of Child Labour"