Stanford Law School students will help design a law degree program for Afghanistan under a $7.2 million grant from the U.S. State Department.

The federal grant was directed to the school’s Afghanistan Legal Education Project, a student-led initiative launched in 2007 to promote legal training in that central Asian country. The project has already produced a number of law textbooks for Afghan students and helped to start a certificate in legal studies program at the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul.