Faraz Shahlaei LL.B

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Dr. Faraz Shahlaei is an adjunct professor of law at Loyola Law School Los Angeles. Holding an LLB from Iran, he also has two LLMs in public international law and dispute resolution (arbitration) and further earned a doctoral degree from Loyola Law School, specializing in human rights and its interaction with sports. His areas of research include public international law, international human rights law, alternative dispute resolution, and sports. With more than 15 years of experience in the practice of law, he has also appeared as counsel in contractual, commercial, and sports disputes, including in arbitral proceedings, and has successfully mediated different types of disputes. He has litigated human rights cases in front of the UN treaty bodies, including cases related to sports, and has acted as a third-party intervener before the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights.