Dr Hassaan Shahawy Elected President of Harvard Law Review

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Congratulations to Dr Hassaan Shahawy (2016, Islamic Studies and History) who was recently elected President of the Harvard Law Review, becoming the first Muslim President in the Review’s history.

Dr Shahawy, who came to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, is currently a second year Law student at Harvard Law School, and served as a general editor for the Law Review during the latter half of 2020. After successfully running for President of the Review in early 2021, Dr Shahawy’s tenure as President began on January 30th.

Reflecting on his time in Oxford and his ambitions as the head of the Harvard Law Review, Dr Shahawy commented: “I remain deeply impacted by the time I spent in Oxford studying Islamic law, as well as the traditional study of Islamic law that I was doing at the same time. When I returned to the US to begin law school, I missed the truly international intellectual discourse that I experienced at Oxford and felt that American legal debates could do more to include and learn from international voices and other legal traditions.

I’m so humbled to have been elected for this wonderful position, and hope it’s part of a broader trend of American legal academia appreciating the importance of diversity, as well as the value of engaging with international and historical legal traditions.”