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Farzad Fallah

PhD Candidate and Teaching Assistant
Teaching Assistant in the LL.M. in International Law Program at the Geneva Graduate Institute
Spoken languages
Kurdish, Farsi, English, French, Arabic

PHD
 

PhD title: Islamic Imperialism: A Study in the Intellectual History of Islamic Law during the Formative and Golden Period (Circa 700-1000 AD)

Expected completion date: January 2027

PhD supervisor: Fuad Zarbiyev
 

PROFILE
 

Farzad Fallah is a PhD Candidate and Teaching Assistant at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), in Geneva, Switzerland. For his PhD dissertation, Farzad is writing an intellectual history account of Muslim jurists’ imperial writings in the early and golden periods of Islamic Law.
 

Selected publications and Works
 

  • Farzad Fallah, It Is Not Just International Law; It Is Also a Cat: Living in Interregnum, Völkerrechtsblog,01.08.2025, doi: 10.17176/20250801-143031-0.
     

Areas of expertise
 

  • International Law

  • Legal Theory

  • Legal History

  • Islamic Law