2025
Domestic Implementation of International Human Rights
Arizona State University
Tempe, USA·January 2025
Guest Lecture
Teaching& Lectures
I aim to cultivate classrooms where vulnerability is not a weakness but the starting point for rigorous inquiry.
7 lectures 4 institutions 3 countries since 2019
Institutions
Domestic Implementation of International Human Rights
Arizona State University
Tempe, USA·September 2025
Guest Lecture
2024
Subjects of International Law
University of Ottawa
Ottawa, Canada·November 2024
Mini Lecture
Understanding and Addressing Vulnerability in Migration and Immigration Practice: The Role of Paralegals
Phoenix College
Phoenix, USA·October 2024
Guest Lecture
2022
Litigating Immunity: Diplomatic Immunity and Domestic Courts
Phoenix College
Phoenix, USA·April 2022
Guest Lecture
2020
International Criminal Law in National Legal Systems: Nigeria
Allameh Tabataba'i University
Tehran, Iran·August 2020
Guest Lecture
2019
Subjects of US Laws and Laws of Diplomatic Immunity
Phoenix College
Phoenix, USA·July 2019
Guest Lecture
How I teach
Learning as becoming
Beyond the transmission of doctrine, legal education is the formation of professional judgment, ethical responsibility, and analytical agility.
I cultivate adaptive expertise: students who apply foundational principles flexibly across new and evolving contexts.
Productive uncertainty
I vividly recall moments of intellectual vulnerability, hesitating to articulate my thoughts, uncertain whether my interpretations were correct.
So I build classrooms where not knowing yet is the beginning of the work rather than a failure of it. Uncertainty, said out loud, is where the thinking actually starts.
Situated learning
Students understand law most deeply when they grapple with it in context. I integrate collaborative problem-solving, case simulations, statutory interpretation exercises, and reflective dialogue to connect theory with practice.
In the room
Active and group learning
Small-group exercises and applied hypotheticals let students test their reasoning in real time. Guest speakers are integrated deliberately, so students see how legal principles behave once they leave the page.
A comparative frame
Law is never only local. Situating a framework against other jurisdictions reveals the assumptions buried inside any single one of them, which is a lens most courses never hand a student.
Context before doctrine
Each lecture opens on a real case or a current event, so the abstraction arrives already attached to something at stake. The principle before the rule.
Storytelling as entry
Narrative comes before doctrine, so the human consequence is visible before the rule that governs it. When students understand whose life a principle touches, they engage with it differently.
Reflective practice
Structured pauses run through the lecture. Students are asked to interrogate their assumptions and to name what they are still unsure of. Here, uncertainty is treated as data, not as failure.