ALEP, a student-driven project, is comprised of second and third year students at Stanford Law School. The faculty advisors are Erik Jensen (co-director of Stanford Law School’s rule of law program) and Stanford Law School Dean Larry Kramer. Professors Haroon Mutasem and Malalai Wassil teach courses designed by ALEP in collaboration with AUAF. The postdoctoral fellow supports academic programs at AUAF and represents ALEP in Afghanistan. ALEP enjoys strong support from Stanford Law School, AUAF, generous donors, and project alumni.
AUAF Professors
Mohammad Haroon Mutasem joined AUAF in 2008 as Senior Lecturer for Legal Studies. He concurrently serves as Assistant Professor and Vice-Dean of the Kabul University Faculty of Law and Political Science. Professor Mutasem is an advisor to the Afghan Women's Network (AWN) and President of the Afghanistan Jessup International Moot Court Club. He formerly worked as a Judicial Training Materials Specialist for USAID-sponsored Afghanistan Rule of Law where he prepared training materials for existing judges and recent graduates preparing to become judges. From 2004 to 2005, he served on the Curriculum Development Committee of the Kabul University Law Faculty. Professor Mutasem received his law degree from Kabul University in 2004 and his LLM from the University of Washington School of Law in 2007. He was born and raised in Kabul, Afghanistan and is fluent in English.
Mohammad Haroon Mutasem joined AUAF in 2008 as Senior Lecturer for Legal Studies. He concurrently serves as Assistant Professor and Vice-Dean of the Kabul University Faculty of Law and Political Science. Professor Mutasem is an advisor to the Afghan Women's Network (AWN) and President of the Afghanistan Jessup International Moot Court Club. He formerly worked as a Judicial Training Materials Specialist for USAID-sponsored Afghanistan Rule of Law where he prepared training materials for existing judges and recent graduates preparing to become judges. From 2004 to 2005, he served on the Curriculum Development Committee of the Kabul University Law Faculty. Professor Mutasem received his law degree from Kabul University in 2004 and his LLM from the University of Washington School of Law in 2007. He was born and raised in Kabul, Afghanistan and is fluent in English.
Malalai Wassil will teach teach Commercial Law during the 2009-10 academic year at AUAF. Professor Wassil holds a JD from New York Law School and a BA from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. She fled Afghanistan in 1983 with her family and moved to the United States. She has published articles related to Afghanistan in the Hartford Courant and the Christian Science Monitor. In 2003, Professor Wassil co-founded the "Rebuilding Afghanistan Foundation," which serves as a non-for-profit organization in New York City raising awareness and funding for education related projects in Afghanistan. Since her return to Afghanistan in 2005, she has served as a commercial lawyer and advisor on legal and regulatory matters for both private and government institutions. She is also a board member for Harakat, an entity promoting better business environment in Afghanistan.
Faculty Advisors
Erik G. Jensen is co-director of the Rule of Law Program at Stanford Law School; a Senior Research Scholar at Stanford’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law; and Senior Advisor for Governance and Law at The Asia Foundation. Over the last 25 years, he has taught and practiced in the field of law and development in 30 countries, including all of the countries of South Asia. He has been a Fulbright scholar, an advisor to the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, and a representative of The Asia Foundation. His publications include Beyond Common Knowledge: Empirical Approaches to the Rule of Law (Stanford University Press: 2003) and Law and Economy in India (forthcoming, Oxford University Press: 2010).
Erik G. Jensen is co-director of the Rule of Law Program at Stanford Law School; a Senior Research Scholar at Stanford’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law; and Senior Advisor for Governance and Law at The Asia Foundation. Over the last 25 years, he has taught and practiced in the field of law and development in 30 countries, including all of the countries of South Asia. He has been a Fulbright scholar, an advisor to the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, and a representative of The Asia Foundation. His publications include Beyond Common Knowledge: Empirical Approaches to the Rule of Law (Stanford University Press: 2003) and Law and Economy in India (forthcoming, Oxford University Press: 2010).
Larry Kramer joined Stanford Law School in 2004 as Richard E. Lang Professor and Dean. As the school’s 12th dean, he has spearheaded significant educational reforms, including dramatically expanding joint degree programs as part of a multi-disciplinary approach to legal studies, enlarging the clinical education program to promote reflective lawyering, revamping programs to foster a public service ethos, and building the international law program to support a growing emphasis on globalization in legal practice. Early in his career, Dean Kramer clerked for Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge Henry J. Friendly of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Hamid M. Khan joins ALEP from private practice in Denver, where he also taught Islamic Law as an adjunct professor at the Univ. of Colorado Law School. Hamid previously served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Colorado (Civil Division) and as a judicial clerk to the Hon. Terrence L. O'Brien of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Hamid also served as a visiting professor at the Univ. of Wyoming, teaching courses on Islam and the First Amendment and has worked in the U.S. House and U.S. Senate, the Pentagon and the British House of Commons. A Truman Scholar, Hamid received his J.D. from the Univ. of Michigan Law School and graduated summa cum laude from the Univ. of Wyoming.
Hamid M. Khan joins ALEP from private practice in Denver, where he also taught Islamic Law as an adjunct professor at the Univ. of Colorado Law School. Hamid previously served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Colorado (Civil Division) and as a judicial clerk to the Hon. Terrence L. O'Brien of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Hamid also served as a visiting professor at the Univ. of Wyoming, teaching courses on Islam and the First Amendment and has worked in the U.S. House and U.S. Senate, the Pentagon and the British House of Commons. A Truman Scholar, Hamid received his J.D. from the Univ. of Michigan Law School and graduated summa cum laude from the Univ. of Wyoming.
Team Leader
Morgan Galland is a second-year student at SLS, where she serves as a member editor of the Stanford Law Review. Before law school, Morgan worked for IUCN - The International Union for Conservation of Nature in the Lao PDR Country Office as a Princeton-in-Asia Fellow. She graduated from Princeton University in 2006 with an AB in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and certificates in Latin American Studies and Environmental Studies.
Morgan Galland is a second-year student at SLS, where she serves as a member editor of the Stanford Law Review. Before law school, Morgan worked for IUCN - The International Union for Conservation of Nature in the Lao PDR Country Office as a Princeton-in-Asia Fellow. She graduated from Princeton University in 2006 with an AB in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and certificates in Latin American Studies and Environmental Studies.
Team Members
Michael Sulmeyer is a second-year law student at SLS, where he is co-chair of the National Security Law Society and a military policy consultant for Oxford Analytica's Daily Brief. Before law school, Michael worked in the Defense Department as Special Assistant to the Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. He is also a non-resident Fellow with the Next America program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. A Marshall Scholar, Michael earned a Masters in War Studies from King's College London. He is completing a doctorate from Oxford University.
Michael Sulmeyer is a second-year law student at SLS, where he is co-chair of the National Security Law Society and a military policy consultant for Oxford Analytica's Daily Brief. Before law school, Michael worked in the Defense Department as Special Assistant to the Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. He is also a non-resident Fellow with the Next America program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. A Marshall Scholar, Michael earned a Masters in War Studies from King's College London. He is completing a doctorate from Oxford University.
Stephenie Gosnell is a second-year student at SLS, where she is the president of the International Law Society and submissions chair for the Stanford Journal of International Law. Prior to law school, Stephenie served as an officer in the Marine Corps for seven years, deploying around the globe. She graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 2001 with a BS in Political Science, and from Georgetown University with an MA in National Security Studies.
ALEP Alumni
Una Au will graduate from SLS in 2010. Upon graduation, she will join the New York office of Davis Polk & Wardell. Una graduated magna cum laude from Yale University with a BA in History and International Studies.
Una Au will graduate from SLS in 2010. Upon graduation, she will join the New York office of Davis Polk & Wardell. Una graduated magna cum laude from Yale University with a BA in History and International Studies.
Alexander Benard, a founding member of ALEP, graduated from SLS in 2008. In 2005, he graduated from Claremont McKenna College with a BA in International Relations and Economics. After law school, Alex worked as an associate in the New York office of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP.
Jason Berg, a founding member of ALEP, is currently an investment banker with Barclays Capital in New York. Jason is a 1998 distinguished graduate of the United States Naval Academy. He also received Master of Science degrees in International Relations and Russian Studies from the London School of Economics, where he was a Marshall Scholar.
Ben Joseloff, a founding member of ALEP, graduated from Stanford Law School in 2008. Ben clerked for United States District Judge Janet C. Hall of the District of Connecticut and received his undergraduate degree summa cum laude with honors in Classics from New York University.
Raaj Narayan will graduate from SLS in 2010. Upon graduation, he will join the New York office of Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz. He received his BA in Political Science from Yale University.
Max Rettig will graduate from SLS in 2010. Upon graduation, he will join the U.S. Department of State in the Office of the Legal Adviser. He graduated summa cum laude with distinction from Amherst College in 2005.
Scott Schaeffer will graduate from SLS in 2010. Upon graduation, he will join the Washington DC office of O'Melveney & Myers. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Notre Dame with a BA in Political Science.
Anne Stephens, a founding member of ALEP, graduated from SLS in 2009. A 2005 graduate of the University of Virginia, Anne currently works as a law clerk for the Hon. Roger Gregory on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals and will clerk for the Hon. Rebecca Beach Smith in the Eastern District of Virginia in 2010-2011.
Eli Sugarman, a founding member of ALEP, graduated from SLS in 2009. A 2002 summa cum laude graduate of Middlebury College, Eli is a Senior Associate at Khalilzad Associates in Washington DC.
