Reuters reports that the Harvard Law Review has named a Los Angeles-born Egyptian-American to what it believes is its first Muslim president in the Review’s 134-year history. Hassaan Shahawy says he hopes his election shows “legal academia’s growing recognition of the importance of diversity, and perhaps its growing respect for other legal traditions.”
Among the legal and political luminaries who have worked at the Harvard Law Review include President Barack Obama, named the journal’s first Black president in 1990, plus three serving members of the U.S. Supreme Court as well as the late Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia.
“Coming from a community routinely demonized in American public discourse, I hope this represents some progress, even if small and symbolic,” comments Mr. Shahawy.
