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Nafay Choudhury is an Assistant Professor at the London School of Economics (LSE) specializing in Socio-Legal Studies. His research intersects various fields including legal pluralism, economic development, private law, and the rule of law. His ongoing work involves examining the fragmented forms of normative order that exist in tandem with state structures, particularly in fragile contexts. Nafay is currently working on a book manuscript that is under contract with Cambridge University Press, focusing on non-state legal ordering through an ethnographic study of money exchangers in Afghanistan. He co-edited a volume titled 'Frontier Ethnographies: Deconstructing Research Experiences in Afghanistan and Pakistan', to be published by Berghahn in 2024. Nafay has conducted extensive fieldwork in various countries including Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Japan, and Malaysia. Before joining LSE, he was a British Academy Research Fellow at the LSE Law School and has held multiple research fellowships at prestigious institutions like the University of Oxford, University of Toronto, and Harvard Law School. He completed his PhD in Law at King’s College London and has received several awards for his writing, including the Socio-Legal Studies Association Article Prize.
Department of Economics