UW to aid Afghan legal rebirth (Seattle Times)

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UW to aid Afghan legal rebirth

By Lornet Turnbull

Seattle Times staff reporter

The University of Washington's law school has won a $2 million State Department grant to help war-ravaged Afghanistan rebuild its legal profession.

The school's Asian Law Center, which has vast experience working with Islamic countries, beat out six other law schools to operate the three-year program.

In a country where the rule of law has essentially vanished, this kind of help is desperately needed, U.S. government and Afghan legal experts agree.

Under the program, the UW will bring as many as 20 Afghan scholars and master's-degree candidates to the Seattle campus to study and research aspects of international and American law.

The faculty members — most of whom will be linked to Kabul University — will return home after a year to help train the Asian country's next generation of legal minds.

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