Notes on Contributors

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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

Afnan Akram is a third-year law student at SMU Dedman School of

Law in Dallas, Texas. She is dedicated to advocating for civil rights and

anti-discrimination and will be graduating with her J.D. in May 2019.

She completed her Bachelor of General Studies with concentrations

in English, Health Studies, and Criminal Justice from Texas Woman’s

University in 2016. While in law school, Ms. Akram has worked with

multiple non-prot organizations. She spent a year as a law clerk for

the Council on American-Islamic Relations, where she worked on

current issues regarding racial and religious discrimination. She also

spent a summer working as a Summer Law Institute Coordinator at

Columbia Law School for Legal Outreach, where she mentored rising

high school students from marginalized communities, taught them the

basics of criminal law, and coached them for a mock trial at the end of

the program.

Andrew Balthazor is a J.D. candidate at Florida International University

College of Law and is expecting to graduate in May 2019. Andrew

has a computer science Bachelor of Science from West Point and is

a former U.S. Army infantryman, military intelligence ocer, and

Iraq war veteran. Aer leaving the military, Andrew lived and worked

in Trinidad and Tobago and Key West before beginning law school.

Andrew became interested in immigration issues when attorneys

insisted that his Trinidadian wife had to live two years in Trinidad

before becoming a U.S. permanent resident. Andrew proved them

wrong and this experience inspired him to pursue a legal career. He has

since interned with two federal judges: Judge Martinez of the Southern

District of Florida and Judge Jordan of the U.S. Court of Appeals

11th Circuit. As a summer litigation associate at Holland & Knight’s

Miami oce Andrew was part of a novel team that investigated the

international the of virtual currencies.

Fazal K. Lalamwal is a graduate of the University of Washington School

of Law, Seattle (2017) and Afghanistan’s Nangarhar University School

of Law and Political Science (2008). Since 2011, he teaches courses,

inter alia, Fundamental Law, General Constitutional Law, Comparative

Constitutional Law, and Principles and Methods of Law, at Kandahar