Hazim Alwazir

Election Year: 2023

Election Constituency: Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Palestine

Scholar Status: Scholar in Residence

Rhodes Identifier: Palestine & Exeter 2023

Hazim Alwazir

Biography

Hazim is a Rhodes Scholar and an international lawyer from Palestine, and was the first Rhodes Scholar from the Middle East to study law at Oxford.

Before the Rhodes Scholarship, Hazim graduated on the Dean’s List of the UC Berkeley School of Law, where he obtained an LLM in Law and Technology, after becoming one of the youngest people to pass the New York Bar Exam, at the age of 21.

On the Rhodes Scholarship, Hazim completed an MSc in Law and Finance from Oxford University with Merit and an academic prize, and is now pursuing Bar Vocational Studies at City University of London.