Mehdi Hakimi

Mehdi Hakimi is a PhD student at Stanford University, specializing in Transnational, International, and Global History. His research focuses on legal history and human rights. Mehdi previously served as the executive director of the Rule of Law Program at Stanford Law School. In this capacity, he developed and led Stanford’s international rule of law projects in the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa. He was also the John Peters Humphrey Fellow at Harvard Law School and chair of the law department at the American University of Afghanistan. His scholarship has appeared in the Harvard Human Rights Journal, Stanford Journal of International Law, Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, and Michigan Journal of International Law, among others. He served as editor-in-chief of the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal and as articles editor for the Harvard International Law Journal. Mehdi is a graduate of Harvard Law School and the University of Oxford.