Hamid M. Khan is currently a Rule of Law advisor for the U.S. Institute for Peace in their Kabul office where he works on implementing the Institute’s projects regarding interpretation of the Afghan constitution, the informal system of justice and transitional justice issues under Islamic law.  Previously, Khan served as Postdoctoral Fellow for Stanford Law School’s Afghanistan Legal Education Project where he directed legal education efforts at the American University of Afghanistan, and later, served as an international observer for the 2010 Afghan parliamentary elections in Helmand Province.  Khan, an adjunct professor of Islamic law at the University of Colorado Law School, is a former visiting professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Wyoming and former member of the ABA Committee on Islamic finance.  He has lectured on Islamic legal matters around the world including before the UN Department of Peace Keeping Operations (DPKO), the Italian Institute for Higher Criminal Sciences (ISISC), Stanford and Northwestern Law Schools, the Lahore University of Management Sciences of Pakistan and served as an advisor to the U.S. Embassy in Kabul and to NATO/ISAF on issues of Islamic law, counterinsurgency, women's empowerment under Islamic theology.  During his time in private legal practice, Khan, in part, served as counsel of record for five detainees held at Guantanamo Bay and in efforts to defend the rights of the mentally ill in Colorado. Khan, a former Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Colorado served  as a law clerk to the Honorable Terrence L. O’Brien, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. During law school, Khan served as both Articles Editor and Symposium Editor for The Michigan Journal of International Law and in the U.S. Secretary of Defense's Legal Honors Program at the Pentagon. Prior to law school, Khan, a 1997 Truman Scholar, worked for the U.S. House Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure, the office Senator Alan K. Simpson, the office of MP David Alton in the British House of Commons, and the office of Representative Barbara Cubin.  Khan received his B.S. in Political Science from the University of Wyoming and his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School.