Nationality British Occupation Lecturer, writer Name Tufyal Choudhury | Ethnicity Bangladeshi Religion Islam | |
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Education Bachelor of Laws with Bengali Studies, Master of Laws Employer Durham University, University of Oxford Alma mater SOAS, University of London, University of Cambridge |
DNL #12: TERROR FEEDS. Panel with Tufyal Choudhury, Sindyan Qasem, Michèle Hassen and John Goetz
Tufyal Choudhury is a British lawyer and lecturer in international human rights law at Durham University of Bangladeshi descent.
Contents
- DNL 12 TERROR FEEDS Panel with Tufyal Choudhury Sindyan Qasem Michle Hassen and John Goetz
- Early life
- Career
- References
Early life
In 1996, Choudhury graduated from SOAS, University of London with a degree in Bachelor of Laws with Bengali Studies. The following year, he graduated from the University of Cambridge with an Master of Laws. In 1997, he joined to the Bar as a member of Inner Temple.
Career
From 1998 and 2000, Choudhury was a research associate at the Cambridge University Centre for Public Law. In 2000, he joined Durham Law School, where he teaches international human rights law. He is also a Research Associate at the University of Oxford on Migration, Policy and Society, a senior policy advisor to the Open Society Institute's At Home in Europe Project and a member of the EU Network of Experts on Violent Radicalisation.
Choudhury’s research interests focus on equality law and in particular on racial and religious discrimination. He is a director of the Discrimination Law Association, an adviser to the Discrimination Law Project for Justice, and to the human rights organisation JUSTICE, and consultant on a variety of associated projects. His research into conditions for Muslims in the United Kingdom has been cited at a national level. He is a joint author of Democracy under Blair: A Democratic Audit of the United Kingdom.