Before his current tenure at HHS, Khan served in various roles, including at the Federal Judicial Center, the United States Judiciary’s research and education agency, as deputy director of the Rule of Law Collaborative. He also was a nonresident senior fellow with the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies and senior rule of law program officer at the United States Institute of Peace. He has taught at the University of South Carolina, George Washington University School of Law, the University of Colorado Law School, the University of Wyoming, and Ohio Northern University. In addition, he was a postdoctoral fellow with Stanford University Law School’s Afghanistan Legal Education Project.
Khan’s substantive work in international legal development has delved into issues of Islamic law and its intersection with customary, constitutional, gender, and post-conflict justice. As a result, he has consulted on justice sector and development issues with a wide variety of international organizations, nongovernmental organizations, corporations, and the US government. His advisees include the director of national intelligence, the US Department of Defense, the US Department of State, the US Agency for International Development, the federal judiciary, the United Nations, NATO, and the US-Islamic World Forum at the Brookings Institution.
Among his other credentials, Khan served as counsel of record for five detainees held at the US Navy facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and was an assistant US attorney for the District of Colorado. He also worked in both houses of Congress, the British House of Commons, and the US Commission on Civil Rights.
