Stanford’s National Public Interest Law Award

Each fall Stanford Law School’s Levin Center for Public Service and Public Interest Law honors an attorney whose work has a national impact. 

This year’s awardee is Yasmeen Hassan, who is the Global Executive Director of Equality Now, a human rights organization focused on legal equality for women and girls. Equality Now has offices in New York, London, Nairobi and Beirut and presences in Washington, DC, Tbilisi, Delhi, and Beijing. Ms. Hassan was with the United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women (2003-2008) where she worked on ensuring gender equality in laws of countries emerging from conflict and on the Secretary General’s study of violence against women. She practiced corporate law at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York and California (1995-2003), and she clerked on the DC Court of Appeals (1994-1995).

For those interested in nominating someone for next year’s award, here are the guidelines.  Nominations are due by March 1st of each year.