Sadakat Kadri

Sadakat Kadri spent a decade as a full-time practitioner at Doughty Street, specialising in criminal, constitutional and international law. He wrote a column on human rights issues for the New Statesman between 2006 and 2007, and he has contributed to several other books, magazines and broadsheets over the years. He became an associate tenant in order to concentrate on writing, after the publication of his The Trial: A History from Socrates to O.J. Simpson (HarperCollins UK and Random House US). His most recent book is Heaven on Earth: A Journey Through Sharia Law (Random House UK and Farrar Strauss & Giroux US).

Sadakat has considerable experience as a Crown Court advocate and he has represented appellants at all levels of the UK judicial system, including several death row prisoners before the Privy Council. On the international plane, he has advised governments and citizens on matters ranging from telecommunications regulation to the constitutionality of a coup d'état, and he has participated in appeals in Brunei, Malawi and Fiji. He is familiar with US constitutional law, having studied at Harvard and qualified for the New York Bar, and he has worked at the American Civil Liberties Union and advised US clients on questions of obscenity and online defamation.

He has also observed court proceedings in the Middle East on behalf of the Geneva-based International Parliamentary Union, and he visited Syria in March 2011 as part of a fact-finding mission of the International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute. IBAHRI's report on the independence of the Syrian bar and judiciary and their impact on the work of human rights defenders in Syria was launched at Doughty Street on 28th July 2011. Please click here to view the report and launch.

Year of Call

1989

Education

BA (Hons) First Class, LLM (Harv), Member of the New York Bar

Email Address

s.kadri@doughtystreet.co.uk