Teaching

I am just as passionate about teaching as I am about writing and take immense pride when I get it right! 

My main teaching interests are in law and ethics of AI, jurisprudence, and legal interpretation.

In Fall 2024, I am  teaching Intro to Legal Philosophy at UCLA Law School. In Fall 2025, I will be teaching a graduate seminar on the law and ethics of AI there. 

At UC Berkeley, I served as a graduate assistant instructor in seven philosophy courses, two legal studies courses, and one social theory course. I also taught legal writing to law students and served as a principal instructor for courses in classical guitar performance five times. A list of these courses is below. In these capacities, I had the pleasure of mentoring a diverse group of students, many of whom went on to prestigious law schools and graduate programs, including Yale Law, Oxford Internet Institute, and Stanford Philosophy, to name just a few.

At Berkeley, I also established two long-term graduate student reading groups at the law school. The first, which I led for six consecutive semesters, is on law and philosophy and draws students from Philosophy, Law, Political Science, and Public Policy. The second, which I led for its inaugural term is on Chinese philosophy and draws students from Philosophy, Classics, and East Asian Languages.

In a previous life, as a teen and before coming to the United States, I taught computer science at a private college in Tehran.

Fall 2021            Legal Research and Writing (graduate)               Romy Rahmanian

Spring 2021        U.S. Constitutional History (upper division)          Robert Brown

Fall 2020            Theories of Justice (upper division)                     Christopher Kutz

Spring 2019        Nature of Mind (lower division)                            John Campbell 

Fall 2018             Moral Philosophy (lower division)                         Hans Sluga 

Summer 2018     Introduction to Logic (lower division)                   Dan Khokhar 

Spring 2018        Philosophy of Mind (lower division)                      John Campbell  

Spring 2017        Philosophy of Mind (upper division)                      John Searle 

Fall 2016             Philosophy of Society (upper division)                  John Searle 

Spring 2016        Theories of Punishment (upper division)               Richard Perry

Spring 2011         Social Theory (upper division)                               Rakesh Bhandari

Spring 2014       Classical Guitar Performance (intermediate)

Spring 2014       Classical Guitar Performance (beginning)

Spring 2011        Classical Guitar Performance (intermediate)

Spring 2011        Classical Guitar Performance (beginning)

Fall 2010            Classical Guitar Performance (beginning)

Some course names above link to complete unredacted student evaluations for that course. 

Please contact me for more course evaluations and sample syllabi.