Sujit Choudhry

Sujit Choudhry has a broad public law practice on questions of constitutional law, administrative law, public international law and international human rights law, in Canada and globally. He frequently appears as counsel in the Canadian courts, including in judicial reviews, appeals, and arbitrations. For over 20 years, Choudhry has been an advisor to constitutional reform, democracy support and peace processes, including in Cyprus, Egypt, Ethiopia, Jordan, Libya, Myanmar, Nepal, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tunisia, Ukraine, Yemen and Zimbabwe. He has been professionally active in India, as well as in China, Singapore, the Hong Kong SAR, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. He has lectured or spoken in 36 countries.

His expertise is particularly useful for investor-state arbitrations, as well arbitrations involving parastatals/state owned enterprises, infrastructure, licensing, corruption, natural resources, and a public law dimension.  As a Canadian national, he brings a unique combination of global legal experience in South Asia, the Asia Pacific, the Middle East and North Africa, and Africa, and a deep commitment to diversity in arbitration.

Choudhry holds law degrees from Toronto, Harvard and Oxford (as a Rhodes Scholar). He served as Law Clerk to former Chief Justice Antonio Lamer of the Supreme Court of Canada before being called to the Bar of Ontario in 2001. He is also a non-practicing member of Grays Inn.  He holds the Q.Arb designation from the ADR Institute of Canada.

For nearly two decades, he was a full-time constitutional law scholar at the University of Toronto, New York University, and served as Dean at Berkeley Law. He has published over 100 articles, book chapters, working papers, and reports.

Choudhry received the Trailblazer Awards of the South Asian Bar Associations of Southern California and Northern California in 2015, and was named Practitioner of the Year by the South Asian Bar Association of Toronto in 2011. He was awarded a Trudeau Fellowship in 2010.