Hussain’s legal and academic career has included positions in Canada, the United States, Tunisia, and Pakistan. At Harvard Law School, Hussain developed a focus on litigation practice and cutting-edge legal scholarship. During this stage of his career, Hussain was active on campus, headlined by his contributions to Harvard Law School’s Global Anticorruption Blog. As a part of that project, he had the opportunity to spend several years refining his writing skills under the tutelage of Harvard Law School Professor Matthew Stephenson, writing on topics as varied as anti-corruption, democratization, and litigation-related issues.

Hussain’s tenure as a Harvard Law School Chayes Fellow allowed him to explore complex legal matters on an international scale while still in law school. In pursuing such global work, Hussain was hired to serve as a volunteer clerk to Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah at the Supreme Court of Pakistan. While developing his understanding of judicial processes and high-level legal decision-making in Pakistan, Hussain also saw the potential for an institutional collaboration between Pakistan’s apex court and the United States’ leading law schools. He remains deeply involved in large-scale and ongoing efforts to bring America’s brightest law students to a developing world judicial context, and is involved with recruiting American law students to clerk in the chambers of justices at the court.

At McGill University in Montreal, Hussain studied International Development and French, earning multiple degrees and graduating as class valedictorian.