Stanford Law Review Elects First Muslim, Iranian-American President
Iranian American News Blog, Kodoom.com
Stanford Law students recently elected Daniel Khalessi ‘13, J.D. ‘22, as president of the Stanford Law Review (SLR), Vol. 74. Khalessi is SLR’s first Muslim, Iranian-American president.
Khalessi attended Stanford University as an undergraduate, receiving his B.A. in International Relations with Honors from the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) and a Certificate in Iranian Studies in 2013. While at Stanford, he interned for Ambassador Susan Rice at the United Nations and the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Middle East North Africa Office and studied abroad at Oxford.
On the significance of his election as the first Muslim and Iranian-American President of SLR, Khalessi says: "Like the founders of this law review, my presence here is unlikely. I am the son of Iranian immigrants. My father died when I was nine years old. And I had to come to terms with who I was as a kid growing up in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks and the tensions between my country and the country of my heritage. The notion of becoming the first Muslim and Iranian-American president in the 74-year history of the Stanford Law Review was completely foreign to me. I hope my election demonstrates some degree of progress. But I also want to make it clear that there is still so much more progress to be made as we strive to build a more tolerant and inclusive legal community and society."
Before attending law school, Khalessi co-founded Fireside, a digital town hall, and worked at Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, where he analyzed U.S. foreign policy toward China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran. He earned an M.A. from Yale’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs and an M.A. in Economics from Peking University in China as a Yenching Scholar (while featured in the book "Teaching Common Sense" by Linda Kulman and Henry Kissinger).
From the first publication in 1948, SLR’s founding principals are to educate and foster intellectual discourse among the student membership and to contribute to legal scholarship by addressing important legal and social issues. Warren Christopher, the 63rd United States Secretary of State, was SLR’s first president.
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