Sujit Choudhry | Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung - WZB

Sujit Choudhry

Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung - WZB, Center for Global Constitutionalism, Guest Researcher

Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung - WZB, Center for Global Constitutionalism, Guest Researcher |

Sujit Choudhry is an internationally recognized authority on comparative constitutional law. He has been an advisor to constitution building, governance, and rule of law processes for over 20 years, including in Egypt, Jordan, Libya, Myanmar, Nepal, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tunisia, Ukraine and Yemen. He has lectured or spoken in 30 countries.

He has worked in a broad variety of contexts, including during ceasefires and conditions of political violence, and his field experience includes: technical advice to multi-party dialogues, facilitating public dialogue sessions with civil society groups and other stakeholders, leading stakeholder consultations, performing detailed advisory work with technical experts, training civil servants and bureaucrats, engaging party leaders and parliamentarians, and drafting technical reports and memoranda in the field.

Choudhry has published over 100 articles, book chapters, policy manuals, reports and working papers. His edited volumes include The Oxford Handbook of the Indian Constitution, Constitution-Making, Constitutional Design for Divided Societies, The Migration of Constitutional Ideas, Territory and Power in Constitutional Transitions and Security Sector Reform and Constitutional Transitions. He is a member of the team preparing Comparative Constitutional Law: A Global and Interdisciplinary Approach (OUP).

Choudhry founded and directs the Center for Constitutional Transitions (CT), which generates and mobilizes knowledge in support of constitution building by assembling and leading international networks of experts to produce evidence-based policy options for decision-makers and agenda-setting research, in partnership with a global network of multilateral organizations, think tanks, and NGOs. CT has worked with over 50 experts from over 25 countries.

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Papers

Citizenship and Constitutionalism

Constitutional Transitions and Territorial Cleavages

Territory and Power in Constitutional Transitions, 2019

This chapter examines how the question of territorial cleavage affected constitutional transition... more This chapter examines how the question of territorial cleavage affected constitutional transitions in Kenya by focusing on the work of the Constitution of Kenya Review Commission (CKRC) and the National Constitutional Conference (NCC). More specifically, it explores issues surrounding devolution of power and how they were resolved, along with the actors involved. The chapter first provides a background that led to the move for constitutional reform, placing emphasis on the political “mobilization”—engineered by political parties and interests—behind the debate over the issue of devolution. It then considers the process of constitutional engagement from the late 2000 to early 2004, the CKRC proposals for a new Constitution that was eventually adopted via referendum in August 2010, and the devolution discussion in the NCC. It also analyzes the outcome of the constitutional transition and the lessons that can be learned from the Kenyan experience.

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