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Sujit Choudhry holds the Scholl Chair and is Associate Dean (First Year Program). He is cross-appointed to the Department of Political Science, the School of Public Policy and Governance, and the Department of Health Management, Policy and Evaluation. He is a Senior Fellow of Massey College, and a Member of the University of Toronto Centre for Ethics and Joint Centre for Bioethics. Professor Choudhry holds law degrees from Oxford, Toronto, and Harvard, was a Rhodes Scholar, held the William E. Taylor Memorial Fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), and a Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship from Harvard. He served as law clerk to Chief Justice Antonio Lamer of the Supreme Court of Canada, and was a Graduate Fellow at the Harvard University Center for Ethics and the Professions. In Fall 2008, he was a Global Visiting Professor of Law at the NYU School of Law.
Professor Choudhry's principal research and teaching interests are Constitutional Law and Theory, and Health Law and Policy. His articles have appeared in a variety of journals, including the International Journal of Constitutional Law, the Journal of Political Philosophy, the New England Journal of Medicine, Health Affairs, Social Science and Medicine, and the Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence. Professor Choudhry is currently working on a book, Rethinking Comparative Constitutional Law, is the editor of Constitutional Design for Divided Societies: Integration or Accommodation (Oxford University Press), The Migration of Constitutional Ideas (Cambridge University Press) and Dilemmas of Solidarity: Rethinking Redistribution in the Canadian Federation (University of Toronto Press), sits on the Board of Editors of the International Journal of Constitutional Law, and is a member of the Editorial Board of the Constitutional Court Review. Professor Choudhry's op-eds have appeared in the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, the Montreal Gazette, the Ottawa Citizen, and the Calgary Herald.
Professor Choudhry provides constitutional advice to a broad range of public sector and private sector organizations, and is extensively involved in public policy development. He was a consultant to the United Nations Development Program, the World Bank Institute at the World Bank, the Royal Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada (the Romanow Commission), the National Advisory Committee on SARS and Public Health (the Naylor Committee), and the Ontario Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform. He has worked with the Forum of Federations in Sri Lanka, the Canadian Bar Association in Nepal, and was an intern at the Legal Resources Centre in South Africa and the World Health Organization in Geneva. Professor Choudhry served on the Academic Advisory Committee to the Province of Ontario's Democratic Renewal Secretariat, and was a member of the Governing Toronto Advisory Panel which proposed major reforms to the structure of municipal government in Toronto. He was counsel for Human Rights Watch and the International Human Rights Clinic at the University of Toronto in Charkaoui, and was counsel for the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association in Khadr. He currently sits on the Board of Directors of Legal Aid Ontario, and was Chair of the Advisory Board of the South Asian Legal Clinic of Ontario.
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