Shami Chakrabarti Shami Chakrabarti Sharmishta Chakrabarti, Baroness Chakrabarti, (born 16 June 1969), commonly known as Shami Chakrabarti, is a British Labour Party politician and member of the House of Lords. She is a barrister, and was the director of Liberty, an advocacy group which promotes civil liberties and human rights, from 2003 to 2016. Chakrabarti was born in the London Borough of Harrow, and studied Law at the London School of Economics. After graduating, she was called to the Bar and then worked as an in-house legal counsel for the Home Office. When she was the director of Liberty, she campaigned against
Shami Chakrabarti Baroness Chakrabarti, of Kennington in the London Borough of Lambeth. She was appointed in October 2016 to the Shadow Cabinet of Jeremy Corbyn as Shadow Attorney General for England and Wales. Chakrabarti has been a member of at least two groups which exist to promote Anglo-American political and military co-operation. She is an alumna of the British-American Project, and has been a governor of the Ditchley Foundation. Chakrabati was married to Martyn Hopper, a litigation lawyer, from 1995 until they divorced in 2014. She opposes grammar schools on the grounds of social divisiveness and because she says they enforce segregation.