Dr Tanzil Chowdhury, BA (Hons), MPhil, PhD (University of Manchester)Senior Lecturer in Public LawEmail: Tanzil.Chowdhury@qmul.ac.ukTelephone: +44 (0)20 7882 7232Room Number: Mile EndProfileTeachingResearchPublicationsPublic EngagementProfileTanzil Chowdhury is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Public Law at Queen Mary University of London and the Co-Director for the Centre of Law and Society in a Global Context. His research focusses on public law and constitutional reform, drawing on marxist and materialist social theory. He was previously a Research Fellow at Birmingham Law School, where he assisted on a report examining key provisions of Gibraltar’s 2006 Constitution for the Territory’s Parliamentary Select Committee on Constitutional Reform, and was the President’s Doctoral Scholar at the University of Manchester. He was also a Research Associate at the University of Essex and has held visiting positions at The New School (New York), New York Law School (New York), Hong Kong University (Hong Kong), Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University (Paris), Yeshiva University (New York City), and the Université Catholique de Lille (Paris). Tanzil was recently an inaugural Fellow for FOBZU, and will spent the next few years building institutional links with the Institute of Law at Birzeit University in Palestine. Before beginning his job at Queen Mary, Tanzil was a development worker that helped to set up the Greater Manchester Law Centre and was a co-founder of the Northern Police Monitoring Project.Undergraduate Teaching LAW4001 Public Law LAW6021 Jurisprudence and Legal Theory Queen Mary-Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University Jurisprudence and Legal theory Tanzil has also taught EU Law, Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights, and Constitutional Reform.ResearchHaving previously written on war powers, constitutionalism in the British Overseas Territories, and a monograph titled ‘Time, Temporality and Legal Judgment’, Tanzil’s latest research projects explore constitutionalism and constitutional reform through marxist and neo-marxist approaches. He has just finished a paper interrogating the dispossession of the Chagos Archipelago as an example of 'executive robbery'; and is currently working on a project that examines constitutional reform as mediation of social antagonism. Tanzil has also contributed to public discussion and written several pieces on a range of issues primarily around issues of race and policing. He has a chapter in an edited collection titled ‘Abolishing the Police’.PublicationsBooks T. Chowdhury & J. Woodcock (eds.), Legal Workers Inquiry: Worker Writing from across the sector in Britain (forthcoming, Notes from Below) T. Chowdhury, Time, Temporality and Legal Judgment (Routledge 2020) Journal Articles T. Chowdhury, ‘’Executive Robbery’: UK Public Law, ‘Race’ and Regimes of Dispossession in the Chagos Archipelago’ Journal of Law and Society 51,1 (2024) 57-81 B. Shiner & T. Chowdhury, ‘Ministry of Defence Impunity: The Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Act 2021’ Public Law (2022) 289-310 H. Yusuf & T. Chowdhury, ‘The Persistence of Colonial Constitutionalism in British Overseas Territories’ Global Constitutionalism 8, 1 (2019): 157-190. H. Yusuf & T. Chowdhury, ‘The UN Committee of 24’s Dogmatic Philosophy of Recognition: Toward a Sui Generis Approach to Decolonization’ Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 26, 2 (2019) 437-460. T. Chowdhury, ‘Taming the UK’s War Prerogative: The Rationale for Reform’ Legal Studies 38, 3 (2018) 500-513. T. Chowdhury, ‘Watching the Cops: The Genesis of the Northern Police Monitoring Project’ Journal of Power, Justice and Resistance 1, 2 (2017) 308-315. T. Chowdhury, ‘Time Frames and Legal Indeterminacy’ Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence 30,1 (2017) 57-76. T. Chowdhury, ‘Temporality and Criminal Law Adjudication's Multiple Pasts’ Liverpool Law Review 38, 2 (2017) 187-206. Chapters in books T. Chowdhury, ‘From the Colony to the Metropole: Race, Policing and the Colonial Boomerang’ in Koshka Duff (ed), Abolishing the Police (Dog Press 2021). T. Chowdhury, ‘Policing the ‘Black Party’- Racialized Drugs Policing at Festivals in the UK’ in Kojo Koram (ed), The War on Drugs and the Global Colour Line (Pluto Press 2019). Book Reviews ‘Berihun Adugna Gebeye, ‘A Theory of African Constitutionalism’ Jurisprudence (2022) Nomi Clare Lazar, ‘Out of Joint: Power, Crisis, and the Rhetoric of Time’, Law and Literature (2021) Brian Christopher Jones, ‘Constitutional Idolatry and Democracy’, Public Law (2021) Other Articles and Video Articles: The Guardian (Unfair criminalisation of Moss Side residents and University strikes offer a lesson in principles, pay and pensions), The Independent, Open Democracy, Verso, Pluto Press (The Iraq War: Fifteen Years On and What is there to Decolonise?), Critical Legal Thinking, The Law of Nations Blog, UKCLA Blog, Legal Form. Quoted: Al Jazeera, The Guardian Appearances: BBC Radio 5 Live, The Journal.ie, Kids of Colour, International State Crime Initiative Consultations/Commissions/Submissions (w/ Bethany Shiner) Response to the Joint Committee of Human Rights call for evidence on the Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill Commissioned by the Stuart Hall Foundation to write for the Black Cultural Activism Map (2018) (w/H. Yusuf) ‘The Case for Constitutional Reform in Gibraltar: Peace, Order and Good Government Powers, External Affairs & Entrustment Agreements’, (Research Fellow assisting on report commissioned by the Gibraltar Parliamentary Select Committee on Constitutional Review) Consultant for JUSTICE, ‘Innovations in personally-delivered advice: surveying the landscape’ (2018) Consultant for Deyika Nzeribe manifesto on Police and Policing, Green Party candidate for Greater Manchester Mayoral Campaign (2017) Public EngagementTanzil was a co-founder of the Northern Police Monitoring Project and helped set up the Greater Manchester Law Centre. He currently sits on the Board of Advisors for the Independent Workers of Great Britain (IWGB) and is an committee member of the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust’s Rights and Justice team, overseeing their education program. He formerly sat on the National Executive Committee of the Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers. Tanzil previously worked in the Pro Bono Offices of Singapore’s Subordinate courts, and has spent much time on twinning and teaching projects in the Occupied Palestine Territories. He maintains a commitment to community-oriented and grass roots projects.Related newsThe School of Law at Queen Mary announces partnership with the Institute of Law at Birzeit University in Palestine 10 June 2024 Update on Legal Education at Birzeit University 11 December 2023 School of Law Academics join delegation of British Academics to visit and establish links with Birzeit University in Palestine 12 July 2023 Professor Amos and Dr Chowdhury provide written evidence into the Overseas Operations Bill 24 September 2020 Response to the Joint Committee of Human Rights call for evidence on the Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill 15 September 2020 Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context welcomes new Co-Director Dr Tanzil Chowdhury 12 February 2020