Asian Law Center
Afghan Legal Educators Project
The Afghan Legal Educators Project aims to strengthen legal institutions in Afghanistan by offering education opportunities to law professors and professionals who will become legal educators in future. The project targets major university law schools in Afghanistan, currently the law and politics and the Shari’a faculties of Kabul, Balkh, Herat, Nangahar and Al-Biruni universities . We design and deliver customized study programs covering English; modern civil, criminal and commercial law; comparative customary law and comparative Shari’a. Participant study takes place in Afghanistan and at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Since 2005 more than 40 Afghan legal educators and Deans have participated in the project, including nine women. Four of the participants to date have either completed or substantially completed the Asian and Comparative LL.M. degree at the University of Washington, and another six to eight will be LL.M. candidates in 2009-10.
The project is located within the Asian Law Center at the University of Washington and is staffed by Project Director Professor Veronica Taylor, Project Manager Professor Jon Eddy, Project Finance and Logistics Manager Alice Stokke and country expert Professor Clark Lombardi.
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