Adnan Perwez

Legal Fellow

Adnan Perwez is a Legal Fellow, co-sponsored by Berkeley Law, at Democracy Forward. 

Adnan graduated from Berkeley Law in 2024. During law school, he was an Articles & Essays Editor for the California Law Review, worked at the Policy Advocacy Clinic doing juvenile bail reform work in Mississippi, and was part of the Police Review Project and the Palestine Advocacy Legal Assistance Project. He also was part of the Ninth Circuit Practicum, where he argued and won a unanimous verdict on an appellate immigration case in front of a Ninth Circuit panel.  

Adnan spent his 1L summer externing for the Chambers of the Hon. Chief Judge Miranda M. Du in the District of Nevada, and his 2L summer working for the ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology (SPT) Project, where he did First Amendment work. 

Before law school, Adnan was a community organizer with the American Muslim community, where he helped strategize and build coalitions against Obama-era domestic surveillance programs like CVE, as well as Trump-era policies like the Muslim Ban. He received his Masters in Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School in 2021, and his B.A. with high honors in Political Science, History, and Religious Studies from U.C. Davis in 2019. He is originally from the Bay Area.