Sadakat kadri biography

Sadakat Kadri (born 1964 in London) is a.
I'm an associate tenant at Doughty Street Chambers as well as a writer.
Sadakat Kadri is a London-based legal scholar, human rights lawyer, author, travel writer, and journalist.

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sadakat kadri

I’m an associate tenant at Doughty Street Chambers as well as a writer. My first book was a guide to Prague, written soon after the 1989 revolution. The version on sale nowadays is a stunted shadow of its former self, but I remain very fond of the first three editions. In 2005, I wrote The Trial: A History, from Socrates to O.J. Simpson (there are some extracts here) and my latest book is Heaven on Earth: A Journey Through Shari’a Law, which is a combination of history, travelogue and political critique.

Most of my legal work involves international human rights, and I’ve travelled fairly widely in that context. I visited Syria in March 2011, at the very beginning of what would turn into the current civil war, to meet human rights defenders and state officials on behalf of the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute. A video to launch the report I helped write, which led to Syria’s suspension from the International Bar Association, is accessible via this link. In August 2012, I travelled to Myanmar/Burma as the ra

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Sadakat Kadri

Lawyer, author, travel writer and journalist

Sadakat Kadri (born 1964 in London) is a lawyer, author, travel writer and journalist. One of his foremost roles as a barrister was to assist in the prosecution of former Malawian president Hastings Banda. As a member of the New York Bar he has worked as a volunteer with the American Civil Liberties Union. He has also specialised in freedom of information issues.^[1]

He currently lives in London and writes law-based articles for the British current affairs magazine New Statesman,^[2] and the London Review of Books.

Early life and education

Born in London in 1964 of Pakistani and Finnish parents,^[3] Kadri studied history and law at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a first, and has a master's degree from Harvard Law School.^[4]

Career

Kadri's parallel travel writing career started with a visit to Prague during the 1989 Velvet Revolution, as one of only a handful of 'non-journalists' who actually observed the reality of the changes witho

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Kadri, Sadakat 1964–

PERSONAL: Born 1964, in London, England. Education: Trinity College, Cambridge, B.A. (honors); Harvard University, L.L.M.

ADDRESSES: Home—London, England. Agent—Derek Johns, A.P. Watt Ltd., 20 John St., London WC1N 2DR, England. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: Writer and lawyer. Called to the Bar of England and Wales (Inner Temple), 1989, New York State, 1990, and Malawi, 1995. Tenant of Doughty Street Chambers, London, since 1994.

AWARDS, HONORS: Shiva Naipaul/Spectator prize, 1998, for writing about a trip to Malawi.

WRITINGS:

Prague (travel guide), Globe Pequot Press (Chester, CT), 1991, 2nd edition, 1993.

The Trial: A History, from Socrates to O.J. Simpson, Random House (New York, NY), 2005.

Contributor to journals, newspapers, textbooks, and anthologies.

SIDELIGHTS: Sadakat Kadri has assisted with, prepared, or conducted legal cases in numerous countries, including Brunei, Malawi, Fiji, the United States, and the United Kingdom. His book The Trial: A History, from Socrates to O.J. Simpson draws on this experience,