Haroun Rahimi
American University of AfghanistanHaroun Rahimi is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Law Department at the American University of Afghanistan and affiliated with the University of Washington School of Law. He's a research fellow at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. Rahimi’s research focuses onbreligious education, rule of law, Islamic finance, and institutional reform. His book examinesveconomic institution reform in Afghanistan, with his research published in reputable journals. Rahimi consults independently for research firms and policy think tanks on institutional development and governance in South Asia. He's been a visiting professor at Università Bocconi and contributed to research on Islamic finance, Afghan legal history, and legal transplantation at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies. Rahimi was a visiting scholar at UNIDROIT in Rome and a Global Academy Scholar with the Middle East Studies’ Association. He earned his B.A. in Law from Herat University and his LLM and Ph.D. from the University of Washington.
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