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June 29, 2010

Training lawyers in a war-torn land

CDDRL, FSI Stanford in the news: Stanford Report on June 28, 2010

Students and faculty in Stanford Law School's Afghanistan Legal Education Project (ALEP) are hard at work seeking to train lawyers, provide badly needed language textbooks, and help ensure a functioning court system. CDDRL's Erik Jensen, co-director of the Law School's Rule of Law Program and an adviser to the dedicated ALEP students, discusses some of the on-the-ground challenges of training effective lawyers in Afghanistan.