Mehdi J. Hakimi

Mehdi J. Hakimi is a lawyer, scholar, and Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal. He previously served as the John Peters Humphrey Fellow at Harvard Law School and as Lecturer in Law and Executive Director of the Rule of Law Program at Stanford Law School, where he led international initiatives in the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa. Earlier, he chaired the Law Department at the American University of Afghanistan, where he founded the Business Law Clinic and Moot Court Program. He has advised international organizations, governments, and law firms on Afghanistan and comparative legal systems, and his expertise has been cited in court decisions, EU publications, and U.S. congressional reports. His scholarship has appeared in leading journals at Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Columbia, and others. A licensed attorney, Hakimi has worked with global lawfirms and is fluent in Persian/Farsi/Dari, English, Arabic, and French.