UNIVERSITY of WASHINGTON
Ana Mari Cauce
Professor of Psychology
PRESIDENT

May 30,2018

To Supreme State Security Prosecution,
Walid K. Salem is an advanced graduate student in the Department of Political Science at the
University of Washington in Seattle. He has been a student of the University of Washington since
2012. In 2015, he earned a Master of Arts degree in political science and subsequently began
pursuing a PhD in political science. Specializing in the fields of comparative politics and public
law, he completed his qualifying exams in December 2015, and defended his dissertation
prospectus in June of 2017. He has been on graduate on-leave status from the University of
Washington since Summer Quarter 2017 working on his dissertation, co-chaired by two award
winning mentors, which has the working title "Judicial Independence and Embeddedness in
Hybrid Regimes." The empirical research is grounded in interviews with judges and lawyers,
media coverage, and archival resources.

Sincerely,

Ana Mari Cauce
President
Professor of Psychology

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