In August 2011, he contended that the European left was using the recent mass murders in Norway “to argue for limiting free speech” on the grounds that certain speech “can lead to murder.” Mchangama strongly challenged this premise. He has written on such subjects as the oppression of women in Islam, the 2015–16 New Year's Eve sexual assaults in Germany, and the danger of laws against “ hate speech,” blasphemy, and Quran-burning. Mchangama's writings have appeared in many publications, including the Danish newspapers Dagbladet Information and Berlingske, the Norwegian periodical Minerva, and the American journals National Review and Foreign Affairs. He founded Justitia in 2014, and has been its director since then. From 2008 to 2014 he was a chief legal counsel at CEPOS. From 2007 to 2008 he was an attorney at Plesner (law firm).

He was an assistant professor in International Human Rights at the University of Copenhagen from 2005 to 2007, and an adjunct professor there from 2007 to 2012.įrom 2004 to 2007 he was a paralegal at Eversheds Sutherland. In 2004, after studying in Venice and Strasbourg, he received an additional degree from the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation. In 2003, Mchangama received a law degree from the University of Copenhagen. They have two children, Leopold and Norma. In 2016 he married his long-time partner, Sarah Hammeken. Mchangama's mother, Ulla Danstrøm, is Danish, and his father, Said Mchangama, is from Comoros. For six years he served as chief legal counsel at CEPOS. He is the founder and director of Justitia, a Copenhagen-based think tank focusing on human rights, freedom of speech, and the rule of law.

Jacob Jomo Danstrøm Mchangama (born 15 February 1978) is a Danish lawyer, human-rights advocate, global expert within free speech and social commentator.

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