Dr. Sanaz Alasti, Criminal Justice Program Piper Award Application .
Dr. Sanaz Alasti, Criminal Justice ProgramPiper Award ApplicationCareer highlights include:Section A:Teaching:1. Taught 12 different courses since 2011 at Lamar University.2. Designed 7 new Courses designed for Lamar University since 2011:- ‐DeathPenalty- ‐CriminalWomen- ‐WomeninCriminalJustice(Graduatecourse)- ‐ComparativeCriminalJusticeSystems- e)- atecourse)- ‐ComparativePenology(Graduatecourse)- uatecourse)- ‐DeathPenaltyClinic3. Consistently high teaching evaluations.See the attachment: Summary of Teaching evaluations.See the attachment: A sample syllabus.
Section B:Research:1. I’ve received numerous scholarships and academic honors throughout myacademic and professional career. These honor include a Merit Scholarship awardfrom Golden Gate University and Fellowship from Harvard law school. Morerecently, in 2013 & 2014, I received a very competitive award from theAssociation for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA) and Scholarsfor Peace in the Middle East (SPME).Please check the CV: Awards received for excellence in the field.2. As an internationally researcher in comparative criminal justice systems, and therole of religion in criminal punishment, I’ve authored seminal research workwhich has appeared in various scholarly journals and books. Some of thesearticles have subsequently been cited by other researchers in the field, both in theUS and internationally, in the course of their respective research work. I’vepublished my books, book chapters, and articles in English, French and Persian.3. In addition to these citations to my published work, I’ve been interviewed invarious media discussing my views on legal issues and death penalty. Oneexample is my interview with the New Yorker about the Oscar movie winner “ASeparation” and the judicial system in the movie. Also, I have weeklyinterviewswith the Radio and TV channels located in LA regarding the death h query 8%AA%DB%8Chttp://ofoghiran.tv/?p 1736https://vimeo.com/961830674. My published books appear in at least 84 law libraries in the US and across 5continents, according to WorldCat online database.5. My book “Criminal Infringement of Copyright”, second edition (2011) has beenassigned as a required reading by faculty in Iran.
6. Presented at 23 professional conferences since fall, 2011.Check my CV: A representative sample of my publications, presentations & myinvitations as a speaker at seminars and lectures in the field.Section C:Service & ounter- tivesonbehalfofLamarUniversity.-Organized an International workshop on Comparative Criminal Justice Systemsin Onati, Spain, summer RefugeeReviewTribunal,Summer2015.-Awarded Faculty Development leave, Fall 2015.-Phi Beta Delta honor society member, from 2014 to present.-Nominated for 2013 Emerging Scholar award.-Invitee presenter, Spindletop Unitarian Church of Beaumont, A conversation onDeath Penalty, Beaumont TX, September 2013.-Invitee Lecturer, Law Library of Congress, Capital Punishment Law of Iran,Washington DC, August 2013.-Appreciation award from Law Library of Congress, summer 2013.-Board member, East Coast Colleges Social Sciences Association (ECCSSA),from spring 2013.Fellow, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME), from spring 2013.-Scholar in residence, Law Library of Congress, Summer 2013.-Invitee Lecturer, NATO School and International Institute of Higher Studies inCriminal Sciences Military Operations Seminar, Italy, November 2012.
-Advisory Board of Persian Freedom Institute, from summer 2012 to present.Chair of the following panels: Capital Punishment: International Perspectives, Annual Meeting of the AmericanSociety of Criminology, Washington DC, November 2015. Co-Chair with Jim Mann, Contemporary Issues of Criminal Justice SystemsWorkshop, Onati International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Onati, Spain,May 2015. Chair, Contemporary Challenges of the Middle Eastern Criminal Justice Systems& Military Operations, Onati International Institute for the Sociology of Law,Onati, Spain, May 2015.Chair, Perceptions and Errors in Capital Punishment, Academy of CriminalJustice Sciences Conference, Orlando, FL, March 2015.Chair, Economics, Interventions, and Law, Annual ASMEA Conference,Washington D.C., October 2014.Chair, The Role of Democracy in Drafting a New Constitution in the Middle East,ECCSSA Annual Conference, Herndon VA, April 2014.Chair, Cross Cultural Comparisons on Capital Punishment, Academy of CriminalJustice Sciences Conference, Philadelphia, PA, February 2014.Chair, US Foreign Policy & International Terrorism Panel, By Institute of WorldPolitics & Lamar University, Beaumont, TX, November 2012.Chair, Serious Juvenile Offenders, Life Imprisonment, and the Death Penalty,Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Chicago IL,November 2012. SERVICE TO THE DEPARTMENT:-Advised freshman students, 2012.-Organized a panel on International Terrorism for criminal justice department, November2012.-Advised junior students, from 2012 to present.-Member: Criminal Justice Faculty Search Committee 2013.Chair: Criminal Justice Methods Faculty Search Committee 2014.-Member: Criminal Justice General Faculty Search Committee 2014.
Students Organization:-Director, Center for Death Penalty Studies at Lamar University, from spring 2013.Center for Death Penalty Studies at Lamar University:The center for Death Penalty Studies at Lamar is striving to achieve the following aims:1. provide information about the application of the death penalty in the U.S. andInternationally;2. assist in developing an informed position on capital punishment;3. produce a better understanding of capital punishment laws in Texas and MiddleEastern countries;The Center for Death Penalty Studies provides internship and research opportunitiesfor Lamar students.Please check the center webpage and facebook visor of Persian Cultural Association of Lamar University, from fall 2012 topresent.SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY/Discipline:-Nominated for University for piper Award, 2015.-Offered Spain study abroad program, summer 2015.-Nominated for University for piper Award, 2014.-Nominated for Distinguished Lecture Series, 2014.-Nomination of Samereh Alinejad for the Nobel Peace Prize, official nominationletter has been sent to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, Fall 2014.-Coordinating the following Pre-Homecoming event, fall 2014:Lamar students met with representatives of Center for Death Penalty Studies to supportforgiveness in death penalty, fall 2014.
-Supervised Lamar students to make the following video (Forgiveness in DeathPenalty):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v oeNWUvtcbXkSelected On-campus Presentation:-Invited speaker by Ken & Nancy Evan, Cardinal Conversation, President’s house,February 5, 2014.- Invited speaker for Phycology Department, Life or Death: A Conversation onCapital Punishment, January 31, 2014.- Invited speaker for STARS program, Life or Death: A Conversation on CapitalPunishment, Academic Enhancement Workshop: Spotlight on Faculty Research, April18, 2013.-Attendee, Faculty Workshop of Center for Distance Education, "Quality Matters",Summer 2012.-Attendee, Faculty Workshop of Center for Distance Education, “Student Engagement”,Summer 2012.-Attendee, Faculty Workshop of Center for Distance Education, “Creating VideoContent” Fall 2012.- Attendee, Faculty Workshop of Center for Distance Education, Blackboard Training”Fall 2012.
Section D:Student Relationships Advising Freshman students, Criminal Justice program, 2012. Advising Junior students, Criminal Justice program, from 2012 to present. Advising Graduate Students:Thesis committee member, Ghaliah HanafiThesis committee member, Dustin P. McAlpineThesis committee member, Joseph Wells, work in progressThesis committee member, Diego Snyder-Zuasnabar, work in progressInvolvement of graduate students in research, creative, and scholarly activities:- Mentor to Masoumeh Hassanpour (graduate student), Penal Proportionality and theYoung Offender, Paper presented at the International Society of Criminology Meeting,Vienna Austria, June 2005.- Mentor to Mina Seddihfar (graduate students), Alternatives to Imprisonment:Rehabilitation and other Programs, summer 2007. This research was featured in theJustice Department Journal, and in the Student Spotlight section on the TehranUniversity Alumni newsletter. The paper was published as an article in the PrisonsOrganization Journal.- Mentor to Masoumeh Hassanpour (graduate student), The Effectiveness of RestorativeJustice Practices, research project at Criminology Institute, Tehran University, summer2007.-Mentor to Hallie Gates (graduate student), Geographical Disparities in the Application,Retention and Abolition of the Federal Death Penalty with International Perspective, fall2012.- McNair mentor to Cynthia Offordile. 2013.-Mentor to Dustin McAlpine (graduate student), Factors Leading to FamilyReunification: IN CPS Cases, Lamar University, Spring 2014.-Mentor to Ghaliah Hanafi (graduate student), Death Penalty in the United States andSaudi Arabia, Fall 2014.-Mentor to Amunique Love (graduate student), Individual Study.-Encouraging and helping all my graduate students to submit their proposal to theAmerican Society of Criminology Conference, Spring 2014.
Co-authoring of papers/presentations with graduate students (if presented at anassociation meeting or submitted for publication:Publication:Mohammadreza Goudarzi and Sanaz Alasti, Juvenile Delinquency, Justice DepartmentJournal, Tehran, Iran, fall 2005.Presentation:Masoumeh Hassanpour and Sanaz Alasti, Penal Proportionality and the Young Offender,International Society of Criminology Meeting, Vienna Austria, June 2005.Hallie Gates and Sanaz Alasti, Geographical Disparities in the Application, Retentionand Abolition of the Federal Death Penalty with International Perspective, Academy ofCriminal Justice Sciences, Dallas, TX, March 2013.Justin Templain (advisor), Death Penalty in Texas and Finland, paper presented at theAcademy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Philadelphia, PA, Feb. 2014.A Sample of my students’ -home-with-research/
Section E:Letters of recommendation by colleagues and experts in the field areattached:1. Jim Mann, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Lamar University2. David Greenberg, Professor of Sociology, NYU.3. Mohammad Ashouri, Professor of Criminal Law & Criminology at TehranUniversity.4. John Trumpbour, Research Director, Labor and Worklife Program,Harvard Law School.
Curriculum vitae - current as of September 2015Dr. Sanaz Alasti“I call upon you to remember that cruel punishments have aninevitable tendency to produce cruelty in the people” Sir Samuel RomillyDr. Sanaz Alasti, AssistantProfessor of Criminal Justice&Director of the Center for DeathPenalty StudiesLamar University:Texas State University SystemP.O. Box 10026, Beaumont,Texas 77710(409) 880-8549,sanaz.alasti@lamar.eduEducationHarvard University School of Law, Cambridge, MAPost-Doctoral, July 2011Golden Gate University School of Law, San Francisco, CADoctor of Judicial Science, S.J.D. (Ph.D. equivalent), May 2008With emphasis on Comparative Criminal Justice SystemsHonors:Merit Scholarship RecipientGPA:4.00Tehran University School of Law, Tehran, IranMaster of Law (LL.M), with honors, Criminal Law & Criminology, July 2003Class Rank:Top 1%GPA:3.80Activities: Successful Participation in Judgment Examination & Bar ExamAllame Tabatabaee University School of Law, Tehran, IranBachelor of Law, LL.B (J.D. equivalent), summa cum laude, July 2001Class Rank:Top 1%
GPA:3.92Sanaz AlastiPage 2Teaching & Academic ExperienceLamar University, Criminal Justice DepartmentAssistant ProfessorDirector, Center for Death Penalty StudiesCourses taught:-Intro to Criminal Justice-Legal Research & Writing-Crime & Criminals-Death Penalty-Criminal Women-Comparative Criminal Justice Systems-Theoretical Foundations (Graduate course)-Juvenile Justice in International Perspective (Graduate course)-Comparative Penology (Graduate course)-Current Legal Scholarship on Capital Punishment (Graduate course)-Women in Criminal Justice (Graduate course)-Comparative Criminal Justice Systems (Graduate course)Beaumont, TXAugust 2011- PresentSeptember 2013- PresentHarvard University, School of LawVisiting FellowProject: Capital Punishment: Comparative PerspectiveCambridge, MAFebruary 2011- July 2011Golden Gate University, School of LawPost-Doctoral ScholarProject: The Abolition of Death Penalty in International LawSan Francisco, CAOctober 2009- July 2011Heald College, Criminal Justice DepartmentAdjunct FacultyCourses taught:-Legal Research-Legal Writing-Criminology-Introduction to Criminal Justice System-Introduction to Corrections-Organized Crime, Gangs & TerrorismHarvard Law SchoolLecture:What is Wrong with Capital Punishment?San Francisco, CAJuly 2009- July 2010Cambridge, MAApril 2011Golden Gate University, School of LawSan Francisco, CAFulbright SymposiumApril 2010Presentation:The Impact of International Law on Abolition of Death Penalty in a Time of Change: The WideningDivide between the United States and IranCourse designed:-Death Penalty: This course is intended to introduce a comparative study of the death penalty inabolitionist versus retentionist countries. It is designed primarily for use in US law schools, withemphasis on US law, but should prove instructive in other locations.
Tehran University, Criminology InstituteLecture: Death Penalty in the USTehran, IranSeptember 2007Sanaz AlastiPage 3Teaching & Research InterestsDeath Penalty, Corrections, Penology, Comparative Criminal Justice Systems, Criminology,Victimology, Legal Research, Criminological Theories, Criminal Justice & Human Rights.Awards & Grants Research Grant, Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA, 2014).Scholar in Residence, Law Library of Congress, summer 2013.Fellowship award, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME), 2013Fellowship, Harvard University School of Law, 2010.Teaching Appreciation Award, Criminal Justice Department, Heald College, San Francisco, 2010.Merit Scholarship, Golden Gate University School of Law, 2004.Graduate Student Award, Criminology Department, Tehran University, 2003.Top Student Award, Allame Tabatabaee University School of Law, 2001.Professional ExperienceLaw Library of CongressWashington DCLegal SpecialistJune 2013, August 2013Conducting legal research on legislation of foreign countries. This includes writing research reports onvarious legal topics for the United States Congress, executive agencies and the judicial branch.Habeas Corpus Resource CenterSan Francisco, CALawyerOctober 2009- January 2010Analyzing the relationship between sentencing outcomes and racial characteristics in homicide casescharged and sentenced in Tulare County, CA.Death Penalty FocusSan Francisco, CAResearcherJanuary 2009-April 2009Worked on “Teaching Abolition Project” a project proposing death penalty curriculum to stimulatebroader exploration and discussion of capital punishment topics in law schools.ACLU of Northern California, Policy DepartmentSan Francisco, CADeath Penalty InternJanuary 2008- January 2009Developed projects aimed at bringing community and media attention to flaws in the California deathpenalty system. Current efforts focus on highlighting the reversal reasons of death sentences inCalifornia.Golden Gate University, School of LawResearch AssistantSan Francisco, CAJanuary 2008- May 2008
Worked on the Comparative Criminal Justice Reader Project supervised by Professor Susan Rutberg,decided on topics and syllabus of criminal justice from civil law countries to common law in theUnited States.Sanaz AlastiPage 4Golden Gate University, School of LawSan Francisco, CAResearch AssistantSeptember 2006- May 2007Assisted in the projects supervised by Professor Sompong Sucharitkul in the center of AdvancedInternational and Comparative Legal Studies. Conducted research in the field of human rights andcomparative criminal justice systems.Iran Judiciary, Legal DepartmentTehran, IranResearcherMay 2005- August 2005Conducted research and complied a brochure regarding new human rights achievements of Irancriminal justice system, in the fields of legislative, judicial and executive criminal policy.Iran Judiciary, Mirdamad Judicial ComplexTehran, IranJudicial InternshipJanuary 2000-July 2001Observed trials and procedures and provided case summaries after sentencing, reported to the judge.Prepared legal memoranda in the areas of criminal, criminal procedure, and property law, as well asworked closely with clerks to provide effective and efficient services to clients.Languages & Professional AffiliationsFluent in English, Farsi, Arabic (Criminal Law Texts), knowledge of ItalianAmerican Society of CriminologyInternational Society of CriminologySouthern Criminal Justice AssociationLaw & Society AssociationPhi Beta Delta Honor SocietyAssociation for the Study of the Middle East and AfricaCourse & Curriculum DesignedCapital Punishment Curriculum for Law SchoolsWorld Coalition, available at www.worldcoalition.orgChatillon, FranceJune 2009The Death Penalty: Undergraduate CourseCriminal Justice Program, Lamar UniversityBeaumont, TXFall 2011Comparative Penology: Graduate CourseCriminal Justice Program: Lamar UniversityBeaumont, TXFall 2011Juvenile Justice in International Perspective: Graduate CourseCriminal Justice Program: Lamar UniversityBeaumont, TXSpring 2012Women in Criminal Justice: Graduate CourseBeaumont, TX
Criminal Justice Program: Lamar UniversitySummer 2014Comparative Criminal Justice Systems: Undergraduate/Graduate Onati & Madrid, SpainStudy Abroad Program: Onati International Institute for the Sociology of law & Lamar UniversitySanaz AlastiPage 5PublicationsBooks Author, History of Corporal Punishment: A Comparative Historical Perspective, work inprogress [In English]. Author, The Death Penalty in the Middle East, work in progress, Submitted to HarvardUniversity Press [In English]. Co-editor with Jim Mann, Contemporary Issues in the Criminal Justice Systems, HartPublishing, Oxford, UK, Submitted to Hart Publishing. Author, Cruel and Unusual Punishment: Comparative Perspective in InternationalConventions, the United States and Iran, Vandeplas Publication, Florida, US, March 2009[In English]. Author, Criminal Law & Criminology Dictionary, Mizan Publication, Tehran, Iran, winter2009 [English to Farsi]. Author, Pioneer Criminologists, Mizan Publication, Tehran, Iran, winter 2009 [In Farsi]. Translator, Crime & Punishment: A History of the Criminal Justice system, Mitchel Roth(Translation), Vol. 1, Mizan Publication, Tehran, Iran, summer 2006 [In Farsi]. Translator, Crime & Punishment: A History of the Criminal Justice system, Mitchel Roth(Translation), Vol. 2, Mizan Publication, Tehran, Iran, fall 2007 [In Farsi]. Co-Translator, Oxford History of Prison: The Practice of Punishment in Western Society,Norval Morris, David J. Rothman (Translation, Collective Work) Mizan Publication, Tehran,Iran, winter 2005 [In Farsi]. Author, Criminal Infringement of Copyright, Mizan Publication, Tehran, Iran, winter 2004(Second edition, 2011) [In Farsi].Book Chapter Author, Juvenile Death Penalty in Islamic Countries: The Road to Abolition is pavedwith paradox, Edited by Peter Hodgkinson in Capital Punishment Collections: NewPerspectives, Ashgate Press, London, UK, Fall 2013 [In English].-Co-Author with Eric Bronson, Comparative Study of Death Penalty in the United States andIran, published in Right to Life and Death Penalty in Iran, Compilation of papers presentedat the UCLA Death Penalty Conference, 2014. [In English]Co-Author with Eric Bronson, Women and the Death Penalty in Iran, Edited by RaphaelChenuil-Hazan, published in On the Death Penalty in Iran, published by SwedishInternational Development, March 2015. [In English]Author, Death Penalty in the Middle Eastern Countries, Edited by Sanaz Alasti & JimMann in Contemporary Issues in the Criminal Justice Systems, Hart Publishing, underreview. [In English]Encyclopedia Contribution Co- Author with Eric Bronson, Crime and Punishment in Iran, The Wiley Encyclopedia ofCrime & Punishment, Available in fall 2015 [In English].
Co- Author with Eric Bronson, Corrections in Iran, The Wiley Encyclopedia of Corrections,Available in spring 2016 [In English].Sanaz AlastiPage 6Law Reviews & Journals Author, Chronological and Geographical Differences in Execution Methods, Work inprogress [In English].Author, What is Wrong with Corporal Punishment: Official and Unofficial attitudesTowards the Abolition of Corporal Punishment, Work in progress [In English].Author, The Return of Shaming: Comparative Study of Shaming Punishments in Texasand Tehran, Work in progress [In English].Co-author, Contemporary Middle Eastern Harshness in the Application of DeathPenalty: Why Israel Is the Only Abolitionist?, Onati Socio-Legal Series, Vol. 6, Availablein Spring 2016, under review [In English].Author, Co-Author with Eric Bronson, Sex Bias in Capital Cases, Special Review on DeathPenalty, ECPM Journal, October 2014 [In French].Author, Death by Stoning: An Overview and History of Death Penalty by Stoning,Iranshahr Criminal Law Journal Series, Vol. 40, Los Angeles, November, 2012 [In Persian].Co-Author, Rethinking Youth Justice: Interpreting the Convention on the Rights ofChild, Justice Department Journal, Vol. 39, Tehran, Iran, spring 2012 [In Persian].Co-Author, Violation of Human rights in Juvenile Justice Systems, Justice DepartmentJournal, Tehran, Iran, spring 2012[In Persian].Author, Comparative Study of Stoning in the Religious of Islam and Judaism, JusticePolicy Journal, March 2007 [In English].Author, Comparative Study of Cruel and Unusual Punishment for Consensual AsHomosexual Acts, Annual Survey of International and Comparative Law, Golden GateUniversity, Volume 12, 2006 [In English].Author, Prevention of Women Victimization, Proceeding Journal, Tehran, Iran, fall 2006 [InFarsi].Co-Author, Juvenile Delinquency, Justice Department Journal, Tehran, Iran, fall 2005 [InFarsi].Author, Criminal Law in Shakespearean Works, Attorneyship Journal, Tehran, Iran, fall2004 [In Farsi].Author, Prison Population in the United States, Prisons Organization Journal, Tehran, Iran,fall 2004 [In Farsi].Author, Criminal Procedure in Ancient Era, Prisons Organization Journal, Tehran, Iran,winter 2003 [In Farsi].Reports & Congressional Reports provided for the Law Library of Congress Report provided for the Library of Congress on “Iran’s Upcoming Presidential Election”,published by In Custodia Legis, July 2013. Report provided for the Library of Congress on “Global Legal Collection Highlights”,published by In Custodia Legis, September 2013.
Law Library of Congress report, Law on Use of Water in Agriculture, August 2013.Sanaz AlastiPage 7Selected Presentations and Workshops Capital Punishment in Authoritarian Regimes, Annual Meeting of the American Society ofCriminology, Washington DC, November 2015.New Face of Terrorism, Southern Criminal Justice Association Conference, Charleston, SC,September 2015.Death Penalty in the Middle Eastern Countries, Contemporary Issues of Criminal JusticeSystems Workshop, International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Onati, Spain, May 2015.Women and the Death Penalty: Comparative Perspective, Academy of Criminal JusticeSciences Conference, Orlando, FL, March 2015.The Future of Death Penalty, Phi Beta Delta Colloquium, Lamar University LandesAuditorium, Beaumont, TX, March 2015.Decriminalization of Sodomy, Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, SanFrancisco, CA, November 2014.Study of Inhuman Punishments for Consensual Homosexual Acts in the Middle East andWest, Annual ASMEA Conference, Washington D.C., October 2014.Policing Terrorism, SWACJ Conference, South Padre Island, TX, October 2014.Capital Punishment and Super Due Process, UCLA Death Penalty Conference, Los Angeles,CA, May 2014.A Dialogue among Scholars: Social, Legal and Ethical Issues about Capital Punishment andComputer Hacking, Cardinal Conversation event by Ken & Nancy Evan, President’s house,Lamar University, February, 2014.Democracy and Punishment, ASMEA Conference, Arlington, VA, November 2013.Chronological and Geographical Differences in Execution Methods, American Society ofCriminology Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, November 2013.A conversation on Death Penalty, Spindletop Unitarian Church of Beaumont, BeaumontTX, September 2013.Relationship between Political Events and the Death Penalty, Southern Criminal JusticeAssociation Conference, Virginia Beach VA, September 2013.Capital Punishment Law of Iran, Law Library of Congress, Washington DC, August 2013.Harshness in the Law of Punishment: Widening divide between Texas & Tehran, Academy ofCriminal Justice Sciences Conference, Dallas, TX, March 2013.Juvenile Death Penalty in Islamic Countries, Policy studies Organization Conference,Washington Dc, February 2013.Crime and Punishment in Sharia Law, International Institute of Higher Studies in CriminalSciences Seminar, Italy Siracusa, November 2012.Juvenile Death Penalty, Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, ChicagoIL, November 2012.Contemporary Middle Eastern Harshness in the Application of Death Penalty: Why Israel Isthe Only Abolitionist? Fifth Annual ASMEA Conference, Washington D.C., October 2012.Rebuilding Criminal Justice Systems, ECCSSA Annual Conference, Herndon, Virginia,March 2012.The Death Penalty Cross-Nationally, Annual Meeting of the American Society ofCriminology, Washington D.C., November 2011.Workshop on Crime and Criminal Justice Reform in Global Context, Harvard KennedySchool, Cambridge, MA, Spring 2011.What is Wrong with Capital Punishment? Harvard Law School Lecture Series, Cambridge,MA, April 2011.
The Impact of International Law on Abolition of Death Penalty in a Time of Change: TheWidening Divide between the United States and Iran, Fulbright Symposium, San FranciscoCA, April 2010.Death Penalty in the United States, Tehran University, Criminology Institute, Tehran, Iran,September 2007.Sanaz AlastiPage 8Chair of Panels Capital Punishment: International Perspectives, Annual Meeting of the American Society ofCriminology, Washington DC, November 2015. Co-Chair with Jim Mann, Contemporary Issues of Criminal Justice Systems Workshop, OnatiInternational Institute for the Sociology of Law, Onati, Spain, May 2015. Chair, Contemporary Challenges of the Middle Eastern Criminal Justice Systems & MilitaryOperations, Onati International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Onati, Spain, May 2015.Chair, Perceptions and Errors in Capital Punishment, Academy of Criminal Justice SciencesConference, Orlando, FL, March 2015.Chair, Economics, Interventions, and Law, Annual ASMEA Conference, Washington D.C.,October 2014.Chair, The Role of Democracy in Drafting a New Constitution in the Middle East, ECCSSAAnnual Conference, Herndon VA, April 2014.Chair, Cross Cultural Comparisons on Capital Punishment, Academy of Criminal JusticeSciences Conference, Philadelphia, PA, February 2014.Chair, US Foreign Policy & International Terrorism Panel, By Institute of World Politics &Lamar University, Beaumont, TX, November 2012.Chair, Serious Juvenile Offenders, Life Imprisonment, and the Death Penalty, AnnualMeeting of the American Society of Criminology, Chicago IL, November 2012. Media Interviews, Organizing Workshops/Seminars & Consultancy Academic Organizer of Contemporary Issues of Criminal Justice Systems workshop, OnatiInternational Institute for the Sociology of Law, Onati, Spain, May 2015. Consultant with Australian Government in regard to Refugee Review Tribunal, Summer2015. New Yorker, Interview in the New Yorker about the Oscar winner movie “A Separation”,and the judicial system in the movie, February 2012. Invitee Faculty, NATO School and International Institute of Higher Studies in CriminalSciences Military Operations Seminar, Italy, November 2012. Library of Congress, An Interview with Sanaz Alasti, Scholar in Residence in Custodia Legis,August 2013.
Weekly interviews with Radio and TV channels located in LA regarding death penalty.
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{Faculty, Dept, College}SummaryofStudents’Evaluation:2014Course NameCourse #DeathPenalty554.85555CRIJ4313- ‐Summer2014CRIJ4300- ‐014.8 4.9 4.9 4.9 4.9 4.9 PenologyQ1Q5Q64.44 4.44 4.56CRIJ5340- ‐Spring2014Q104.44Q114.44Q304.89Q314.89Q1- ‐Learningobjectivesexplained.Q5- ‐Assignmentsaidedlearning.Q6- ‐Instructoravailable.Q10- ‐Overall,theinstructorisagoodteacher.Q11- ‐Learnedalotoverall.Q30- ‐Gradesreturnedtimely.Q31- ‐Clearcourserequirementinsyllabus.Quotes from students:“Very intelligent, informed, and passionate about the subject matters. Has a strong desire to involvestudents in conversations to help students comprehend material.”“Dr. Alasti is excellent at gathering sources and presenting it in a clear manner so everyone canunder
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