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Attorney at Law. |
Conducts mediations in English and Persian. Subject Specialties:
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Summary of qualifications
Practicing Attorney, Professor of Law
Education
J.S.D. Yale Law School, 1963
- LL. M. Yale Law School, 1960
- M.C.L. Columbia Law School, 1959
- LL. B. Tehran University School of Law, 1957
Professional experience
Member of the New York Bar as of 1987; Member of the Iranian Bar Association as of 1967
Additional professional activities
Legal counsel and practicing attorney in various fields including commercial and civil law.
Lecturer in law and visiting professor at Columbia and Brooklyn Law Schools.
Visiting Scholar at Yale Law School, 2003-2004.
Vice-Chancellor of the National University of Iran.
Dean and professor of law, National University Law School.
Professor of law; Dean of Students and Vice-Dean of the Tehran University School of Law.
Languages
Persian; English; French; Italian; German.
References
Supplied upon request.
Awards received
“Medal of Culture” for being the top student at the Tehran University School of Law, 1957.
“Smit-Mundt Fulbright” grant to study at Columbia Law School, 1958.
4-year “Award for Excellence” scholarship granted by the Iranian government to study at Yale Law School, 1959-1963.
Repeated research grants from the “Max-Planck-Institut” of Germany.
French government research grant spent at Faculte de Droit, Universite de Paris.
Publications
Books:
Sociology of Values, third enlarged edition, 1999.
Crime and Culture in America: A Comparative Perspective, Greenwood Press, New York, Westport, CT, and London, 1986.
Business Transactions with China, Japan and South Korea, co-edited with Professor Hans Smit of Columbia Law School, Matthew Bender, 1983.
Reading on Population for Law Students, co-edited with Professor Luke T. Lee, then of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, published in English, French and Spanish, UNESCO, Paris, 1977.
Iranian Laws Affecting Population Growth, collected, classified and annotated in English and Persian, under the auspices of the United Nations Fund for Population Activities and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, 1972.
Criminal Law, in two volumes, a textbook for Iranian law students, National University Publications, 1974, Seventh Printing, Ganje-Danesh Publications, 1997.
New, revised ed. Tarhe-No Publications, 2004.
Criminal Psychology, National University Publications, 1973; Second printing, Ganje-Danesh Publications, 1994.
Law and Society: On the Relationship between Law and Socio-psychological Factors, (Volume I), National University Publications, Second Edition, 1976. New enlarged ed. (Volus. I and II) Tarhe-No Publications, 2003.
Law and Personality: Research on Iranian Social Psychology, Tehran University Publications, 1965.
Discrimination Against Women and its Social Impacts, No 7 of the Publications of the Iranian Women’s Organization, Reprinted in Mahnaz Afkhami’s edition of Iranian Laws Affecting Women, Washington D.C. 1994.
Victims’ Rights under the Iranian Law, in G. Keiser/H. Kury/ H.J. Albrech’s edition of Victims and Criminal Justice, in four volumes, Max-Planck-Institut’s Publication (Freiburg i. Br. Germany, 1991, Vol.2 pp. 857-875).
In Praise of Organized Crime, Rutgers Law Journal, Vol. 16, Numbers 3 & 4, Spring and Summer of 1985, pp. 853-867.
Criminology in Iran, in International Handbook of Contemporary Developments in Criminology, edited by Elmer Johnson, Greenwood Press, New York, Westport, CT and London, 1983.
Law as an Instrument of Social Change, paper presented to and published in the Proceedings of the Symposium of Law and Population in the Middle East and North Africa, Cairo, 7-10 December 1976.
Law and Population Growth in Iran, Law and Population Monograph Series, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Number 21, 1974.
Frustration and Crime, National University Law Journal, Number 1, 1971.
Social Interaction and Criminal Behavior, National University Law Journal, No.2, 1972.
Guilt Feelings and Criminal Behavior, “Law-Today,” Nos. 7; 8; 9-10, 1963.
Criminal Responsibility, “Law-Today,” Nos. 8; 9-10, 1963.
Psychology of Confessions, Iranian Bar Association Law Journal, No. 81, 1968.
Personal Factors Affecting Judges’ Decisions, Iranian Bar Association Law Journal, Nos. 109; 110-111, 1968. Etc.