Hussain Awan is an accomplished law student at Harvard Law School with extensive experience writing on the legal structures of democratization, constitutional law, anticorruption, international affairs, legislative-judicial relations, and civil procedure. His writings have gained considerable attention, particularly in the form of his contributions to the Harvard Law School's Global Anticorruption Blog. Hussain is a Harvard Law School Chayes Fellow and a former clerk for Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah at the Supreme Court of Pakistan.

Hussain graduated as the class valedictorian of McGill University in Montreal, where he majored in International Development and French. His research interests are centered around litigation, anticorruption, comparative constitutional law, and trade issues.

Throughout his career, Hussain has shown an unwavering commitment to understanding and tackling critical issues in domestic complex commercial litigation, international law, and good governance in the developing world.