I have three interrelated areas of research interest. First, I conceptualize laws as institutions and draw on new institutional theory to explore the problem of lawmaking and enforcing laws in the context of developing countries.
Haroun Rahimi
Haroun Rahimi obtained his BA in Law from Herat University, and his LLM in Global Business Law and his PhD from the University of Washington. Rahimi is an Assistant Professor of Law at the American University of Afghanistan and a Visiting Professor of Law at Bocconi University School of Law. Rahimi's research focuses on economic laws, institutional reform, Islamic finance, divergent conceptions of rule of law in Muslim and modern thoughts, and religious authority. Rahimi's research has appeared in reputable local and international journals. He has also collaborated as an independent consultant with several research firms and policy think tanks conducting policy research on institutional development and good governance in the South Asia context. At the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Rahimi has worked on Islamic finance as a poverty alleviation strategy, the legal history of Afghanistan, and the ways that legal transplantation is legitimized in Muslim countries. Rahimi was a visiting scholar at the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) in Rome. More recently, Haroun Rahimi has become Global Academy Scholar at MESA.
