Sujit Choudhry


Sujit Choudhry is a lawyer, legal scholar, and expert in comparative constitutional law.

Scholarship

Choudry 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.
In November 2017, he participated in a United Nations expert meeting in Geneva on mass atrocity and transitional justice.
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. He is the Director of the Center for Constitutional Transitions.

Academic service

Choudhry was the first person of Indian origin to be named dean of a top US law school, and the first I. Michael Heyman Professor of Law at Berkeley's School of Law. He was also a recipient of the Trudeau Fellowship and the South Asian Bar Associations of Southern California and Northern California each awarded him the "Trailblazer Award".

2016 complaint

In March 2016, Choudhry and the Regents of the University of California were served with a civil complaint for sexual harassment, which led him to sue the university for an unconstitutional violation of his due process rights and racial discrimination for its handling of the case. Under settlement agreements, the civil complaint against Choudhry was dismissed and all proceedings were dropped.

Selected publications

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