[2] Raised in a family that was opposed to apartheid, he later said that his social consciousness was shaped by the recognition of "a moral responsibility to make a contribution to undoing its legacy".
[1] After his graduation, he spent 2000 at the Constitutional Court of South Africa, where he was a law clerk to Deputy Judge President Pius Langa.
[1] Through 2007 and 2008, he continued as a part-time lecturer at Wits while working as a senior researcher at the University of Johannesburg's South African Institute for Advanced Constitutional, Public, Human Rights and International Law (SAIFAC).
[5] In 2022 he was shortlisted for possible appointment as the African representative to the United Nations Working Group on Business and Human Rights.
[6] In October 2023, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that Bilchitz had been appointed to serve as an acting judge of the Constitutional Court between 1 February and 31 March 2024.
[9] Meanwhile, Bilchitz became one of five candidates shortlisted for possible permanent appointment to the Constitutional Court, the others being Matthew Chaskalson, Alan Dodson, Tati Makgoka, and Ashton Schippers.
[15] A practicing Jew,[3] Bilchitz is a member of the Beit Emanuel Progressive Synagogue, where he was vice-chairperson from 2013 to 2014, and he was the chairperson of the steering group of Limmud International from 2014 to 2016.
[17] His husband is British–Israeli legal academic Ruvi Ziegler, whom he met at the World Congress of Constitutional Law in Seoul, Korea; they married on 16 February 2020.