Criminal Procedure in
Afghanistan
University of
Washington School of Law
Asian Law Center
Legal Education Support
Program-Afghanistan
By: Ghazi Hashimi
December 6, 2013
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Assistant
Professor Ghazi Hashimi, who currently teaches law at Kabul University, was
born in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan in 1980. Since 2008, he has taught criminalistics,
general criminal law, international criminal law, trial advocacy in criminal
cases, and criminology.In 2013, he got his Master’s in Law (LLM) from
University of Washington School of Law. Since 2006 he has collaborated with the
National Center for Policy Research on several projects. Additionally, he has
translated theMax Planck Manual on Fair Trial Standards from Dari into
Pashto and General Criminal Law, written by Dr. Hafizullah Danish, from
Pashto into Dari. Currently, in addition
to teaching at the law school, he has written this workbook and collaborates as
researcher on a project titled “Unemployment Effects on Security” withNational
Center for Policy Research (NCPR). He believes that legal education is an
effective tool for fostering development and strengthening rule of law in Afghanistan.
