Nasredeen Abdulbari

Nasredeen Abdulbari (@nasabdulbari) is Sudan’s former Minister of Justice. In that capacity, he served as the principal legal advisor to the Government of Sudan and led and directed Sudan’s transformational legal and justice reforms. He also participated in and contributed to the overall political reform and state restructuring efforts and processes in Sudan.

Previously, Abdulbari was a lecturer in the International and Comparative Law Department, University of Khartoum, where he taught public international law, conflict of laws, and introduction to the English legal system courses. He also worked, on a Satter Fellowship from Harvard Law School, as a staff attorney and Head of the Protection, Peacebuilding, and Psychosocial Unit of the Sudan Social Development Organization (SUDO). In East Africa, he was a senior researcher at the Rift Valley Institute and consultant for the Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa based in Nairobi, Kenya.

Abdulbari holds an LL.B. (Hons) and LL.M. from the University of Khartoum, where he won nine academic distinction awards; an LL.M. from Harvard Law School, where he was a Stoffel Scholar and a Landon H. Gammon Fellow; and a Doctor of Juridical Science (S.J.D.) from the Georgetown University Law Center.

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