Education:

• PhD candidate in Human Rights and Peace Studies, Mahidol University, Thailand (on-going)
• MSt in International Human Rights Law, University of Oxford, England (British Chevening Scholarship)
• LL.B. Laws Honours, University College of London, England (Malaysian Scholarship)

Career:

• Current: Head of Chambers (Civil), AmerBON Advocates, Kuala Lumpur.
• 2022: Editor and co-author of Business and Human Rights in Southeast Asia: A Practitioner’s GuideKit for SMEs on Human Rights Compliance regarding the Environment and Labour.
• 2021-present: Co-founder and Director, Collective of Applied Law & Legal Realism (CALR)
• 2019-2024: Chair, Malaysia National Working Group for an ASEAN Human Rights Mechanism (MNWGAHRM)
• 2019-present: Member, International Advisory Board, Asia-Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (APR2P)
• 2011-present: Co-founder and Director, Malaysian Centre for Constitutionalism & Human Rights (MCCHR)
• 2019-2020: Member, Special Committee to Study Alternative Sentences to the Mandatory Death Penalty – appointed by the Government of Malaysia
• 2019-2020: Lecturer (Business and Human Rights & International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights), International Human Rights Law (LLM), University of Malaya
• 2016-2018: Representative of Malaysia to the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR)
• 2016-2017: Chairperson, Innovation and Future of Law Committee, Bar Council
• 2014-2016: Head of Chambers, BON Advocates, Kuala Lumpur
• 2011-2014: Tutor, International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (LLB), University of Malaya
• 2010: Co-author of Halsbury’s Laws of Malaysia on “Citizenship, Immigration, National Security & the Police” (Volume 27)
• 2009-2011: Founder and Chairperson, Constitutional Law Committee, Bar Council
• 2008-present (as required): Advised state and federal Malaysian government leaders on constitutional law and human rights reforms.
• 2007-2009: Chairperson, Human Rights Committee, Bar Council
• 2006-2008: Secretariat member, Suara Rakyat Malaysia (SUARAM)
• 2006-2008: Chairperson, National Young Lawyers’ Committee, Bar Council
• 2006: Co-founder of blawg (legal blog), www.loyarburok.com
• 2005-2008: Legal Counsel, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
• 2004-2014: Member, National Human Rights Society (HAKAM)
• 2012-2014: Partner, Chooi & Company, Advocates & Solicitors, Kuala Lumpur
• 2002-2012: Senior Associate, Chooi & Company, Advocates & Solicitors, Kuala Lumpur
• 1998-2002: Associate, Chooi & Company, Advocates & Solicitors, Kuala Lumpur
• 1998: Advocate and Solicitor, the High Court of Malaya (Admitted to the Bar of Malaya in June 1998)
• 1997: Utter Barrister, the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn (Admitted to the Bar of England & Wales in September 1997)