Hedi Nasheri

Hedi Nasheri is a Professor and the Program Coordinator of Criminology and Justice Studies in the Department of Sociology at Kent State University and a Visiting Professor at the University of Turku Law School in Finland. Professor Nasheri has been appointed as a Senior Research Fellow at New York University School of Law’s Center for Research in Crime and Justice. She was appointed as a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University’s National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse. Professor Nasheri has been appointed as a Fellow at Spangenberg Center for Law, Technology & the Arts at Case Western Reserve University School of Law. She has been appointed as a Visiting Fellow at Business Executives for National Security in Washington D.C. She has written and lectured extensively in the areas of law and transnational crimes and has given a number of invited keynote lectures nationally and internationally on a wide range of policy and intellectual property related topics. She was awarded a Fellowship at the University of London’s Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in United Kingdom and is a recipient of several international awards and grants, including a grant from the United States Department of Justice for studying issues related to intellectual property violations and a grant from the State Department of the United States for studying issues related to technology and intellectual property crimes in Eastern and Central Europe. Professor Nasheri is the author of five books, including Economic Espionage and Industrial Spying (Cambridge University Press), Crime and Justice in the Age of Court TV and Betrayal of Due Process, as well as numerous articles and monographs. Her research has been cited by the Blue Ribbon Commission on Jury System Improvement, the Australian Parliament, the United Nations’ International Criminal Tribunal, the United Nations’ Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, the South African Law Commission, and the United States Code, Annotated. Professor Nasheri serves on the Scientific Committee of Technology Against Crime Forum and serves on the International Working Group on the Cyber Security and the Law, under the patronage of the Interpol and the French Minister of the Interior She served as an editor and serves on the editorial board of several of international journals. She served as the Chair of the International Section of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.