04/07/2026
We are pleased to present Part Two of our dialogue series, “In Conversation: Understanding Iran Today.” Join us on April 28 at 12 pm PST via Zoom webinar (link in bio) for a continued discussion featuring a distinguished panel of experts.
Azadeh Shahshahani, Legal and Advocacy Director with Project South, advances a practice of movement lawyering, focused on confronting state repression and dismantling systems of surveillance, incarceration, and deportation. Azadeh is a past president of the National Lawyers Guild. She currently serves on the Advisory Council of the American Association of Jurists. Azadeh 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.
Neda Bolourchi is a historian at Rutgers University, a nonresident senior fellow at the Institute for Global Affairs at Eurasia Group, and the Executive Director of PAAIA. A former human rights attorney with extensive field experience in Iran, Syria, and across the Middle East and legal consultant, she has advised the U.S. Department of Defense, the State Department, diplomatic missions, senior government officials and multinational corporations on geopolitical risk, sanctions and regional security dynamics.
Tom Dannenbaum’s scholarship draws on a combination of practical and theoretical tools to explore topics in international law relating to armed conflict, accountability, human rights, and nuclear security. Dannenbaum joined Stanford in 2025 as Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and the Frank Stanton Professor of Nuclear Security at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation, part of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, where he is also a senior fellow. He holds a courtesy appointment in Stanford’s Department of Political Science.
