Hussain Awan

Sep 30, 2024 | hlrecord.org | Hussain Awan

Earlier this month, Harvard Law students had the unique opportunity to engage with the jurisprudence of a developing country in the form of a visit from Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah, Senior Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, to Harvard.

May 13, 2024 | globalanticorruptionblog.com | Hussain Awan

The concept of “strategic corruption”—defined by the U.S. government as “when a government weaponizes corrupt practices as a tenet of its foreign policy”—has recently gained prominence as an important way to understand Russian foreign policy in the former Soviet republics, and elsewhere. The country that has faced the most sustained and systematic Russian state-sponsored strategic corruption campaign is almost certainly Ukraine.

Apr 15, 2024 | globalanticorruptionblog.com | Hussain Awan

Capping off a series of scandalous events that shook Canadian politics to its foundation, in February 2019, Jody Wilson-Raybould––the country’s then-Justice Minister and Attorney General––resigned from the cabinet and alleged that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s office had pressured her to intervene in a criminal case against the Canadian construction firm SNC-Lavalin.

Jan 31, 2024 | hlrecord.org | Hussain Awan |Saeed Ahmad

In the throes of 1L year at Harvard Law School, we often heard our peers lamenting the insularity of American legal education and its presiding academy. Forced to pore over the intricacies of some constitutional device invented by John Marshall two centuries ago, our classmates complained bitterly about the narrow focus of our curriculum on domestic law and the absence of contemporary international and comparative perspectives.