Maryam Jamshidi

Associate Professor of Law

Phone:
352-273-0756

Expertise

Foreign Relations Law • Human Rights • Humanitarian Law • National Security Law • Public International Law • Tort Law •

About

Professor Jamshidi teaches and writes in the areas of national security, public international law, the law of foreign relations, and tort law. In particular, her scholarship focuses on the relationship between the private sphere and national security law as well as the law of foreign relations. In exploring these dynamics, Professor Jamshidi’s work draws on political and critical theory, as well as sociology. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Washington University Law Review, the Southern California Law Review, the University of Chicago Law Review, the University of Colorado Law Review, and Hastings Law Journal. She also regularly publishes in popular media outlets.

Prior to joining the Levin College of Law, Professor Jamshidi served as an Assistant Professor of Lawyering at the NYU Law School. She also worked as an associate in several leading Washington D.C. law firms, including White & Case, where she worked primarily on issues relating to national security and foreign relations law. Professor Jamshidi clerked for the Honorable Judge Gladys Kessler of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

Education

University of Pennsylvania Law School, JD
London School of Economics, MSc in Political Theory with merit
Brown University, AB in Political Science with honors

Courses

International Law
National Security Law Seminar

Publications

Academic:

The Political Economy of Foreign Sovereign Immunity, Hastings L.J. (forthcoming). [SSRN]
The Discriminatory Executive & the Rule of Law, 92 U. Col. L. Rev. 77 (2020). [SSRN]
The Federal Government Probably Can’t Order Statewide Quarantines, U. Chicago L. Rev. Online (April 20, 2020). [Link]
The Climate Change Crisis Is a Human Security, Not a National Security, Issue, 93. S. Cal. L. Rev. Postscript 36 (2019). [SSRN]
How the War on Terror is Transforming Private U.S. Law, 96 Wash. U. L. Rev. 559 (2018). [SSRN]
The International Criminal Court and the Arab Spring: Overcoming Bias, Increasing Engagement,in Human Rights, Human Security, and State Security: The Intersection (Saul Takahashi ed.) (Praeger 2014).
The Future of the Arab Spring: Civic Entrepreneurship in Politics, Art, and Technology Startups (Butterworth-Heinemann 2013).
Human Development & Public Engagement: Making Transitional Justice Work for the Arab Spring, 9 Georgetown University Journal of Democracy & Society2 (2012).

Mainstream Press:

How Law Can Make War Inhumane and Banal, Volkerrrechtsblog, June 23, 2021. [Link]
Embracing Diversity and Critical Perspectives in National Security Law, Just Security, October 30, 2020 (with Emily Berman). [Link]
What a Few Cakes Say About the US Drone Program, Just Security, September 16, 2020. [Link]
Bringing Abolition to National Security, Just Security, August 27, 2020. [Link]
The War on Terror’s Reeducation Camps, Jacobin, Jan. 12, 2019
How Transitional Justice Can Affect Yemen’s Future, The Washington Post, Dec. 20, 2018
The National Security Rationale, NPR – All Things Considered, July 6, 2018
The Travel Ban: Part of a Broad National Security Exceptionalism in U.S. Law, Just Security, July 3, 2018 [Link]
The Supreme Court’s Decision to Hear Travel Ban Cases Does Not Bode Well for Civil Liberties, Just Security, July 6, 2017 [Link]