College of Law Alumni Lecture and Undergraduate Awards Evening
Key information
- Date
- Time
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6:00 pm to 9:00 pm
- Venue
- SOAS Gallery Lecture Theatre and Cloisters, Paul Webley Wing
- Event type
- Lecture & Alumni reception
About this event
Join alumni, students and colleagues for an evening of insight, celebration and networking at the College of Law Alumni Lecture and Undergraduate Awards Evening on Thursday 3 December 2026.
The event will be introduced by Professor Eddie Bruce-Jones, Dean of the College of Law, and will feature a keynote lecture by distinguished SOAS alumnus The Hon. Mr Justice Choudhury.
The evening will celebrate the academic and wider achievements of second- and third-year law undergraduates and recent graduates through the Undergraduate Awards presentation. Students nominated for awards will be contacted in advance.
We look forward to welcoming you to this special celebration of achievement and the SOAS law community.
Registration
This event is free to attend, but registration is required. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.
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About the speakers
The Hon. Mr Justice Choudhury was called to the Bar (Inner Temple) in 1992 and was appointed King’s Counsel (KC) in 2015.
His practice at the Bar mainly comprised Employment, Public and Information law, and he appeared in some of the leading cases in each of his fields. He was appointed a Recorder (part time criminal judge) of the Crown Court in 2009, a Deputy High Court Judge in 2016 and a High Court Judge, assigned to the King’s Bench Division, in 2017. He is the first person of Bangladeshi heritage to be appointed a High Court Judge.
Sir Akhlaq Choudhury was the President of the Employment Appeal Tribunal between 2019 and 2022. He is currently a Presiding Judge on the Midlands Circuit.
Professor Eddie Bruce-Jones joined SOAS in 2023, and is the Dean of the College of Law. Prior to SOAS, he spent 13 years as an academic at Birkbeck, University of London, where he most recently served as Executive Dean of the School of Law.
