Name Seyed Noori | ||
"Shariah and State Law"
Seyed Masoud Noori (in Persian: سید مسعود نوری) (born March 24, 1962 - Tehran) is a lawyer, university lecturer, Islamic issues researcher, and journalist. His works often provide updated readings of Islam. He especially focuses on the relationship between Sharia and the international human rights law system. In addition to a PhD in Private Law, he has more than 20 years of experience in studying, teaching, and researching Islam- mainly the Shi’a school- at Qom seminary.
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His professional experiences include working with United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) as well as International Bar Association (IBA). From March 2014 he has joined the Center for the study of Islam & the Middle East (CSIME) as Research Director.
In 2013 Noori was a senior scholar in residence at Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (CHR&GJ), New York University School of Law. In 2012 he taught as a visiting professor at Emory Law School. In 2011 he was a visiting scholar at the Irish center for human rights (National University of Ireland, Galway). Before all these Noori was faculty member of Department of Law, Mofid University (Qom, Iran), a member of the academic council of the Center for Human Rights Studies (CHRS) and a member of Council Law Clinic at that university. He has served as deputy director and director of research and education for the CHRS. In April 2007 he and his colleagues in CHRS founded the first academic legal clinic in Iran, and then the first "Special Human Rights Law Library" as well as the first academic journal of Human Rights in the century. He also has taught various legal and Islamic issues in other Iranian universities, including the Shahid Chamran and Ahl al-Bayt University.
He also has activities as a journalist. In addition to publishing numerous articles in Iranian newspapers such as kayhan (1985-1988) (کیهان) Hamshahri (همشهری) Shargh (شرق) he has severed a member of editorial board of “Social Science Monthly Review” and as director of law books and resources section (Feb 2000- May 2007).