2022 Inaugural Graciela Olivárez Latinas in the Legal Academy ("GO LILA") Workshop
Emily Behzadi
Professor Emily Behzadi is an Associate professor of Law at California Western School of Law. She teaches Property, Art & Cultural Heritage Law, Copyright, and Latinos & the Law. Professor Behzadi’s research and teaching interests are in the fields of art and cultural heritage law. With a background in art history, Professor Behzadi’s research focuses on the interdisciplinary connection between the law and the arts within a national and international framework. She particularly concentrates on issues and disputes arising in Latin America, as they relate to U.S. law and policy. Her scholarship centers on the intersection of cultural heritage law, human rights, and social justice. Most notably, her published works explore the use of cultural heritage as not only a medium of expression, but a medium of marginalization. Throughout her scholarship, Professor Behzadi has examined how acts of plunder, destruction, and even sometimes the erection of objects of cultural heritage serves as a tool of oppression and even persecution. Professor Behzadi has published in journals at Stanford, University of Pennsylvania, Georgetown, and Rutgers, among others. Professor Behzadi is the Chair of the Cultural Heritage Section of the American Society of International Law, the Vice Chair of the International Division of the ABA’s Forum on the Entertainment and Sports Industries, and Chair Elect of the AALS Art Law Section. Professor Behzadi has served on numerous panels for such organizations as the American Bar Association and Association of American Law Schools. Professor Behzadi was recognized as one of the ABA’s “40 Top Young Lawyers” and one of the Orlando Business Journal’s 40 under 40. Most recently, Professor Behzadi was awarded “Professor of Year” at California Western School of Law.
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