Jamal Karim Badree is a legal consultant, researcher, and builder of systems that ask the law to do more. Based in London and working across borders, he moves at the intersection of legal architecture, political imagination, and moral responsibility. His work is rooted in a simple conviction: that justice, to be worthy of its name, must be felt in people’s lives, not just written.
Jamal holds a Master’s in International Commercial Law and is currently pursuing a PhD on the global politics of asset recovery. His research explores how law, often silent in the face of theft at scale, can be reclaimed as a tool of restoration for states whose wealth has been plundered and whose people have been left behind. This inquiry has shaped SovTrr, a sovereign-led platform for ethical asset recovery and reparations, and continues to inform his broader vision for legal innovation that centres accountability, dignity, and sovereign agency.
Alongside his research, Jamal is the founder of multiple ventures designed to reimagine how justice is accessed and enacted. These include ActSure, a compliance platform responding to the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act in the UK, and OoN, a digital onboarding tool reshaping access to legal aid. His practice spans public law, human rights, and governance reform.
Across his work, Jamal asks not only what law is, but what it might become when shaped by those who have been most harmed by its absence. He brings to this task a deep belief: that law, when reclaimed with care and courage, can still be a vessel for memory, for restitution, and for the futures we dare to imagine.