Lawyer • Scholar • Mentor

Hussain Awan

Hussain's expertise spans the worlds of litigation, legal scholarship, community building, leadership, and mentorship.

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Featured Scholarship Selected work

“Reversing a Sunset: The Legality of Retroactively Enforcing Limitations Periods Extensions”

Journal of National Security Law and Policy 2025

A law review article in the United States' leading national security journal.

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About

A short overview of Hussain's practice, scholarship, and mentorship.

Lawyer

Hussain Awan is a recent graduate of Harvard Law School. He has written extensively on legislative retroactivity, litigation, the legal structure of democratization, religious legal systems, and anticorruption. He is a contributor to Harvard Law School's Global Anticorruption Blog, a Harvard Law School Chayes Fellow, and a former volunteer clerk to Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah at the Supreme Court of Pakistan. Awan attended McGill University in Montreal, where he studied International Development and French and graduated as class valedictorian

  • Litigation / motions practice / oral argument
  • Complex research, briefing, and strategy
  • Professional, precise, deadline-driven

Scholar

His published law review articles include work on comparative constitutional law, litigation strategies, and economic statecraft policy.

  • Doctrinal + practical analysis
  • Clear claims with careful sourcing
  • Bridging theory and practice

Mentor

Hussain mentors many pre-law students in the law school admissions process, law students navigating the rigors of 1L, and recent professional pursuing BigLaw and public sector careers.

  • Writing + interview coaching
  • Career strategy and accountability
  • Highly candid feedback

Scholarship

Selected publications.

Contact

For speaking, mentorship, collaboration, or legal writing inquiries.

Email hawan@alumni.harvard.edu

Location New York, NY (or Remote)

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