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Faraz Sanei is an Assistant Professor at 麻豆果冻传媒 Washington College of Law, where he teaches Constitutional Law, Law & Religion, and Federal Courts. Professor Sanei鈥檚 scholarship explores the dynamic normative framework surrounding religious freedom and its interaction with other fundamental rights such as equality, speech, and life (e.g., death penalty). He is also interested in the ways international law informs, and shapes, civil rights advocacy at the national and local levels.

Before joining the faculty at Washington College of Law, Professor Sanei was an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, an Acting Assistant Professor of Lawyering at the New York University School of Law, and the Telford Taylor Clinical Teaching Fellow at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Prior to entering the academy, he served as Legal Advisor to Dr. Ahmed Shaheed, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief (and, separately, the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran). From 2010 to 2015, he was a researcher with the Middle East and North Africa division at Human Rights Watch. He began his legal career as an associate with the law firm of Snell & Wilmer in Phoenix, AZ.

Professor Sanei earned his J.D. from Vanderbilt Law School, where he was the Managing Editor of the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, and his B.A. in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles.