Reza Eslami-Somea

Prof. Reza Eslami-Somea is Associate Professor and Director of the Human Rights Department, Faculty of Law at Shahid Beheshti University. He is also a lawyer and legal consultant, and a Visiting Professor at the UN University for Peace, Costa Rica. He previously worked as an UN Consultant in Kabul, Afghanistan, specializing in human rights treaty and a Post-Doctoral Fellow at McGill University. His research and teaching include international human rights law, democratic citizenship education, public freedoms, rights of women and minorities, and Sharia law. Professor Eslami-Somea received his LL.M. from McGill University and his LL.D. from Université de Montréal & McGill University.