Nazanin Azizmohammadi, Ph.D.

Nazanin Azizmohammadi, Ph.D.

Legal scholar specializing in constitutional and public law, women's rights and health, gender-based violence, and access to justice.

Nazanin Azizmohammadi

Fatemeh Azizmohammadi, professionally known as Nazanin Azizmohammadi

Fatemeh Azizmohammadi, professionally known as Nazanin Azizmohammadi, is an Iranian legal scholar and researcher based in Washington, D.C.

My work begins with a public-law concern: how legal institutions distribute power, protection, and vulnerability, particularly in women’s lives. I am an Iranian legal scholar specialising in constitutional and public law, women’s rights and health, gender-based and sexual violence, and access to justice. Iran is my primary jurisdiction, and I draw on comparative perspectives from the United States and other legal systems to examine the distance between formal legal guarantees and their operation in practice.

I hold a Ph.D. in Public Law and an LL.M. in Gender, International & Comparative Law. My background combines academic research, university teaching, and legal and policy research on women’s rights, constitutional law, and public health. My prior work included research on harm reduction, safe housing, and women in vulnerable situations. My research draws on doctrinal analysis, judicial decisions, interviews, and comparative or statistical evidence when these methods help explain institutional patterns.

I currently serve as a Senior Research Affiliate at Virginia Tech’s Dataism Lab and a Legal Consultant with Equality Now. I previously served as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Public Law at the University of Science and Culture (2018–2023). My current work examines evidentiary standards in sexual-violence cases and the relationship between domestic constitutional structures and international human-rights norms.

EqLex

LAW • EQUALITY • A MORE EQUAL WORLD

EqLex is an independent research and public-education initiative examining law, gender equality, and women's agency in Iran and in comparative perspective.

Research areas

  • Gender equality and women’s rights
  • Gender-based and sexual violence
  • Public and constitutional law
  • Women’s health and public-health law
  • Access to justice
  • Comparative and data-informed legal research

Education

  • Ph.D. in Public Law, Shahid Beheshti University, 2018
  • LL.M. in Gender, International & Comparative Law, American University, Washington College of Law, 2022
  • LL.M. in Public Law, Shahid Beheshti University, 2012
  • LL.B., Shahid Beheshti University, 2010
My work begins with a public-law concern: how legal institutions distribute power, protection, and vulnerability, particularly in women's lives.

— Nazanin Azizmohammadi