Ms Shazia Choudhry, LLB (Hons) (Liv) Dip LP (York), Solicitor of the Supreme Court

Choudhry

Senior Lecturer

Location: Mile End
email: s.choudhry@qmul.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)20 7882 3945

Shazia Choudhry has been Senior Lecturer in Law at Queen Mary since September 2009, having previously been a Lecturer from September 2005. Prior to this she was Lecturer in law at the University of Newcastle having previously qualified as a solicitor. She has also been a Visiting Research Scholar at Emory Law School, USA and a Visiting Research Fellow at the European University Institute, Italy. The latter post was facilitated by the award of a British Academy Small Grant in December 2007.

Her research interests lie in the fields of European and UK human rights law and in particular the interface of those fields with substantive areas of family law. Particular areas of interest include: the definition of a public authority under Section 6 of the Human Rights Act (HRA) within the context of state provision for children; the impact of the HRA and the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) on forced marriage and honour based violence; violence against women as a human rights issue; the effect of rights based reasoning in the law relating to children and more recently elder abuse. She has published two books: European Human Rights and Family Law co-authored with Professor Jonathan Herring (Oxford) and Rights, Gender and Family Law co-edited with Professor Herring and Julie Wallbank (Leeds). The former is the first book of monograph standard which provides a theoretically informed and detailed analysis of the impact of the ECHR and the HRA on the substantive areas of family law. The latter is the first, since the incorporation of the HRA, to consider the link between gender and rights in a detailed and comprehensive way.

She has published both peer reviewed articles and chapters for edited collections within the fields of family and human rights and has also delivered a number of papers at conferences within the UK and overseas.  She has also participated, by invitation, in  conferences organized by members of the House of Lords and Commons on Childrens' rights and Forced Marriage 

Publications:

Books

  • European Human Rights and Family Law co-authored with J.Herring, Hart Publishing (2010)
  • Rights, Gender and Family Law (Co-Editor with J.Wallbank and J.Herring) Routledge-Cavendish (2009)

Key Publications

  • 'Domestic Violence In Light of the European Court of Human Rights Case Law' in Minori e il nuovo diritto - Garanzie, diritti, responsabilità, Elena Urso (Ed.), Kluwer-Italia, Torino (forthcoming 2012)
  • ‘Contact, Domestic Violence and the ECHR’, Current Legal Issues, (2012) Oxford University Press
  • ‘Forced Marriage, the ECHR and the HRA’ in Forced Marriage: Introducing a social justice and human rights perspective: Zed Press (2011) Eds Gill and Anitha  
  • ‘Mandatory Prosecution and Arrest as a Form of Compliance with Due Diligence Duties in Domestic Violence the Gender Implications’ in Rights, Gender and Family Law (Choudhry, Herring and Wallbank) Routledge-Cavendish (2009)
  • 'Rights, Gender and Family Law', in Rights, Gender and Family (Choudhry, Herring and Wallbank) Routledge-Cavendish (2009)
  • 'Clashing Rights and Welfare' A Return to a Rights Discourse in English Family Law' In What Is Right For Children: The Competing Paradigms of Religion and Human Rights (Eds).  This chapter is part of a major collection of works by a number of highly respected family law scholars in the US, the UK, Ireland and Canada and is edited by Professor Martha Fineman, (2009) Ashgate
  • 'Corporal Punishment and Parental Responsibility' in Responsible Parents and Parental Responsibility, (Eds) by R.Probert, J. Herring and S.Gilmore (2009) Hart
  • 'Best interests under the Mental Capacity Act 2007' What Can Healthcare Law Learn from Family Law’ (2008)  16 (3) 240-251 Journal of Health Care Analysis
  • 'Domestic Violence and the Human Rights Act 1998: A New Means of Legal Intervention' (2006) Winter, 752-784, Public Law, (with J. Herring)
  • 'Righting Domestic Violence' (2006) 2 20: 1- 25 International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family (with J. Herring).  This article has recently been reproduced in the Family, Law and Society series (Ashgate Publishing). The aim of the series “is to collect a wide range of important and influential essays in volumes drawn predominantly from English Language journals.”
  • 'Clashing rights, the Welfare of the Child and the Human Rights Act 1998' (2005) 25: 453-492 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, (with Professor Helen Fenwick)
  • 'The Adoption and Children Act 2002, the Welfare Principle and the Human Rights Act 1998 A Missed Opportunity' (2003) 15(2) 119 -138 Child and Family Law Quarterly
  • 'The Child Protection Conference and the Human Rights Act 1998' (July 2001) Family Law 531

Supervision:

Shazia Choudhry welcomes proposals for postgraduate supervision in the areas of European human rights, child and family law.

Undergraduate teaching:

  • LAW6031 Family Law