Maryam Jamshidi is a non-resident fellow at the Quincy Institute and an associate professor of law at the University of Colorado Law School. Prior to joining Colorado Law, Maryam was an assistant and associate professor of law at the University of Florida, Levin College of Law. Jamshidi’s research focuses on the relationship between the private sphere — including private law, private parties, and private interests — and national security, demonstrating the private world’s central importance to this area of policy and law.

As a corollary to this research, Jamshidi’s work also explores the political economy of national security, including how national security laws and policies reflect and shape certain political and socio-economic interests. Jamshidi’s scholarship has appeared in the Cornell Law Review, the Harvard National Security Journal, the Washington University Law Review, the American Journal of International Law Unbound, the Journal of Genocide Research, and Hastings Law Journal, among others. She has also written essays and op–eds for The Washington Post, Boston Review, Just Security, Opinio Juris, and the Law and Political Economy Blog. Jamshidi is a member of the Board of Directors for UNRWA USA and a member of the Middle East Studies Association’s Committee for Academic Freedom—North America, as well as its Task Force on Civil and Human Rights. Jamshidi is a graduate of Brown University, the London School of Economics, and the University of Pennsylvania Law School.