Sujit Choudhry

Sujit Choudhry
Born	1970 New Delhi, India
Alma mater	McGill University (B.Sc.) University of Oxford (B.A.) University of Toronto (LL.B.) Harvard Law School (LL.M.)
Occupation	Lawyer, Educator, Author
Years active	1996-current
Awards	Rhodes Scholarship Cecelia Goetz Professorship William E. Taylor Memorial Fellowship Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship


Dean of UC Berkeley School of Law
In office 2014–2016
Preceded by	Gillian Lester (Interim Dean)
Succeeded by	Melissa Murray (Interim Dean)

Sujit Choudhry is the I. Michael Heyman Professor of Law at UC Berkeley School of Law. He is an expert in comparative constitutional law. Choudhry was the Dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law from 2014 until 2016 and the first person of Indian origin to be named dean of a top US law school. He has also been the Cecelia Goetz Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, the Scholl Chair at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto and a recipient of the Trudeau Fellowship.

Choudhry was born in New Delhi in 1970. He attended high school at the University of Toronto Schools. He studied biology at McGill University. He then obtained a B.A. in law from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and his LL.B. from the University of Toronto. He subsequently earned his LL.M. from Harvard Law School.

In 1996, Choudhry became Law Clerk to Chief Justice Antonio Lamer of the Supreme Court of Canada. He was a Graduate Fellow at the Harvard University Center for Ethics and the Professions as well as a visiting researcher at Harvard Law School for the 1998-1999 academic year.

In 1999, he joined the faculty of the University of Toronto as an Assistant Professor. He was granted tenure in 2004 and was later named Scholl Chair. Choudhry served as an Associate Dean at the University of Toronto. At the University of Toronto, he was also a professor of the Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation in the Faculty of Medicine, and the Department of Political Science in the Faculty of Arts and Science as well as a member of the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics and a Senior Fellow of Massey College.