Tufyal Choudhury

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Tufyal Choudhury
Nationality British
Ethnicity Bengali
Education BA Law with Bengali Studies, LLM Law
Alma mater School of Oriental and African Studies
University of Cambridge
Occupation Lecturer
Employer Durham University
Religion Islam

Tufyal Choudhury is an English lecturer in international human rights law at Durham University.

Early life

In 1996, Choudhury graduated from School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London with a degree with a BA in Law with Bengali Studies. In 1998, he graduated from the University of Cambridge with an LLM. In 1997, he was called to the Bar as a member of Inner Temple.[1]

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 at Durham Law School. He is also a Research Associate at the University of Oxford Centre 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.[1]

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,[2] an adviser to the Discrimination Law Project for Justice, and to the human rights organisation JUSTICE,[3] 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.[4][5] He is a joint author of Democracy under Blair: A Democratic Audit of the United Kingdom.[6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Tufyal Choudhury". Maslaha. Retrieved 1 July 2013. 
  2. ↑ Satter, Raphael (12 June 2007). "Proposed British law would spell end of restricted membership for women at exclusive clubs". Associated Press. Retrieved 24 January 2010. 
  3. ↑ "Durham Law School staff list: Mr Tufyal Choudhury, LLM, Barrister". Associated Press. Retrieved 24 January 2010. 
  4. ↑ Vasagar, Jeevan (4 November 2002). "Schools "should teach Arabic"". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 January 2010. 
  5. ↑ Sapsted, David (29 December 2009). "Europe ‘increasingly anti-Muslim’ says survey". Abu Dhabi: The National. Retrieved 24 January 2010. 
  6. ↑ "Call for Government action to tackle the needs of British Muslims". Durham University. 24 November 2004. Retrieved 24 January 2010. 

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