Sujit Choudhry is a lawyer, legal scholar, and expert in comparative constitutional law.
22 Facts About Sujit Choudhry
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Sujit Choudhry went to the University of Toronto Schools for high school.
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Sujit Choudhry was a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford, and had a Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship from Harvard University and the William E Taylor Memorial Fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
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Sujit Choudhry joined the faculty of the University of Toronto in 1999 and received tenure in 2004.
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Sujit Choudhry left the University of Toronto in 2011 when he was hired by New York University.
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At NYU, Sujit Choudhry was the Cecelia Goetz Professor of Law and the faculty director of the Center for Constitutional Transitions in 2012.
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In June 2014, Choudhry became Dean of Law at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, where he was named the I Michael Heyman Professor of Law.
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Sujit Choudhry thereafter went on an indefinite leave of absence from his position as dean, but continued to remain a member of faculty.
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The university terminated the disciplinary process, and Sujit Choudhry was permitted to remain a member of the faculty "in good standing", until he "voluntarily" resigned the following year.
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Sujit Choudhry sued Berkeley, alleging racial discrimination, but dropped the complaint following the settlement.
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In 2005, Sujit Choudhry helped to draft a letter to the Canadian Parliament arguing that a proposal to outlaw same-sex marriage was unconstitutional.
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In 2021, Sujit Choudhry represented Canadian author Joel Bakan in a lawsuit against Twitter, claiming Twitter's refusal to publish a paid tweet promoting Bakan's documentary The Corporation violated Bakan's free speech rights; Sujit Choudhry sued the Canadian government for failing to issue regulations that protect constitutional freedom of speech on technology platforms.
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In 2021, Sujit Choudhry represented seven families in a citizenship case challenging the constitutionality of a 2009 change in the Canadian Citizenship Act.
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Sujit Choudhry argued that the law unconstitutionally cut off birthright citizenship to children born abroad to Canadian parents who were born outside Canada, effectively making the children stateless persons.
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Sujit Choudhry participated in the Public Order Emergency Commission hearing of Trudeau's actions in October 2022.
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Sujit Choudhry cross-examined the Prime Minister about his decision to invoke the Emergencies Act.
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Sujit Choudhry questioned Trudeau on whether he properly disclosed information about deliberations leading to the decision.
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Sujit Choudhry is an author of the books The Migration of Constitutional Ideas, Dilemmas of Solidarity, Constitutional Design for Divided Societies, Oxford Handbook of the Indian Constitution, Constitution-Making, Territory and Power in Constitutional Transitions and Security Sector Reform in Constitutional Transitions.
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Sujit Choudhry co-authored a report titled "Semi-Presidentialism and Inclusive Governance in Ukraine" with Thomas Sedelius and Julia Kyrychenko which was presented in April 2018 before Ukrainian constitutional experts in Kyiv.
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Sujit Choudhry is the Director of the Center for Constitutional Transitions.
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Sujit Choudhry was a recipient of the Trudeau Fellowship and the South Asian Bar Associations of Southern California and Northern California each awarded him the "Trailblazer Award".
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Sujit Choudhry is the Director of the Center for Constitutional Transitions.