Maryam Jamshidi

Maryam Jamshidi is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Colorado Law School. She teaches and writes in the areas of national security law, 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, 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 Cornell Law Review, the Washington University Law Review, the Harvard National Security Journal, amongst others. She also regularly publishes in popular media outlets.

Prior to joining Colorado Law, Professor Jamshidi was an Assistant and Associate Professor of Law at the University of Florida, Levin College of Law (2019-2023) and an Acting Assistant Professor of Lawyering at NYU Law School (2016-2019). Professor Jamshidi was a visiting professor at UC Davis Law School (Fall 2022) and is currently a faculty affiliate at the Center for Security, Race, and Rights at Rutgers University. Prior to entering academia, Professor Jamshidi was an associate at several leading law firms in Washington D.C. and served as a clerk to the Honorable Judge Gladys Kessler of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

Professor Jamshidi holds a JD from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, a MSc in Political Theory from the London School of Economics, and an AB degree from Brown University.

Areas of Specialty

International Law; National Security; Torts; Law of Foreign Relations; Law and Political Economy

Education

JD, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
MSc, London School of Economics
AB, Brown University