Azadeh N. Shahshahani

Azadeh N. Shahshahani is a prominent human rights attorney based in Atlanta.[1] She is Legal & Advocacy Director for Project South. She previously served as President of the National Lawyers Guild and Director of the National Security/Immigrants’ Rights Project for the ACLU of Georgia.

Life

Shahshahani received her JD from the University of Michigan Law School where she was Article Editor for The Michigan Journal of International Law. She also has a Master’s in Modern Middle Eastern and North African Studies from the University of Michigan.

Defending Muslims and Immigrants

Shahshahani has worked for a number of years in North Carolina and Georgia to protect the human rights of immigrants and Muslim, Middle Eastern, and South Asian communities.[2][3][4] She is the author or editor of several human rights reports, including a 2012 comprehensive report titled: “Prisons of Profits: Immigrants and Detention in Georgia.” Her work has been covered by the New York Times,Democracy Now!, BBC, the Inter Press Service, and the Atlanta Journal Constitution, among other outlets.

International work

Through the National Lawyers Guild, Shahshahani has participated in international delegations, including to post-revolutionary Tunisia and Egypt, election monitoring delegations to Venezuela and Honduras, as well as people’s tribunals focused on the Philippines and Mexico as a member of the jury.

Writings

Shahshahani writes frequently for various journals such as the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Al-Jazeera America,The Huffington Post, Truthout, and JURIST on a range of issues pertaining to immigrants' rights and national security as well as foreign policy.

Recognitions

Shahshahani is the recipient of the American Immigration Lawyers Association 2012 Advocacy Award and the University of Georgia Law School 2009 Equal Justice Foundation Public Interest Practitioner Award. She has also been recognized as one of 100 Influential Georgia Muslims.

Bibliography

Indiscriminate Power: Racial Profiling and Surveillance Since 9/11. University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Social Change, 2015 (co-authored with Carlos Torres and Tye Tavaras).

Immigration and Racial Profiling. Cultural Issues in Criminal Defense. 3rd & 4th editions, August 2010 and June 2015.

Challenging the Practice of Solitary Confinement in Immigration Detention in Georgia and Beyond. CUNY Law Review, 2014 (co-authored with Natasha El-Sergany)

Shattered Dreams: An Analysis of the Georgia Board of Regents' Admissions Ban from a Constitutional and International Human Rights Perspective. Hastings Race & Poverty Law Journal, 2013 (co-authored with Chaka Washington)

The legacy of US intervention and the Tunisian revolution: promises and challenges one year on. Interface. Volume 4 (1): 67 - 101, May 2012 (co-authored with Corinna Mullin)

Reflections on the Occasion of the Tenth Anniversary of September 11. Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts. Volume 4, Number 3, 2011

Reflections. SHIFTING BALANCE SHEETS Women's Stories of Naturalized Citizenship & Cultural Attachment. July 1, 2011

References

  1. ↑ "Fixin’ to Go Mainstream: Asian Americans are on the rise in Southern politics". Hyphen Magazine. Retrieved 2014-04-07.
  2. ↑ "AILA Presents Azadeh Shahshahani with the 2012 Advocacy Award". AILA. 2012-06-14. Retrieved 2014-01-18.
  3. ↑ "Muslim woman, Douglasville settle lawsuit over her hijab". www.ajc.com. Retrieved 2014-01-18.
  4. ↑ "Feds Pay Thousands For Wrongful Deportation". Gpb.org. 2012-10-22. Retrieved 2014-01-18.


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