On Thursday, January 18th, 2024, Stanford University’s Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies along with the University’s Center for South Asia cosponsored a lecture on the topic of the impact the Taliban’s takeover has had on legal education in Afghanistan. Among the lecture’s speakers were Victoria Fontan, Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs at AUAF as well as Erik Jensen who serves as the Director of the Rule of Law Program at Stanford Law School, and as an Affiliated Core Faculty at Stanford’s Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law. Erik Jensen additionally served as a longtime member of the AUAF Board of Trustees until 2023. On the lecture, Stanford University released the following blurb:
The Afghan Legal System offers some distinct features, inter alia its composition of Islamic Law and the Civil law tradition, that are known to a lesser degree to international audiences. Unfortunately, the developments in the country post-Taliban takeover have increased the already complicated legal system and have severely impacted legal education in the country. In this webinar, we aim to explore these complications and discuss the ways we can safeguard the past twenty years of achievements in legal education in Afghanistan.
This event will be moderated by Nasiruddin Nezaami, Fellow at IIE-SRF, Stanford Law School, and Research Fellow at the Information Society Law Center, University of Milan and Assistant Professor of Law at the American University of Afghanistan.
