Sepehr Shahshahani

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Teaching

I have had the pleasure of teaching undergraduate, graduate, and law students. Below you can find a description of the classes I have taught.

Civil Procedure, Fordham University School of Law, Spring 2020 - present

This is the first-year law school class on civil procedure. The first part of the course is about the structure of civil litigation and the different stages in the life of a case. The second part is about jurisdiction and the role of federal courts in the American system.

Intellectual Property Law, Fordham University School of Law, Fall 2019 - present

This is a survey course on intellectual property law, covering copyrights, patents, trade secrets, and trademarks.

Mathematics for Political Science, Princeton University, Fall 2017 (preceptor)

This is the first course in the graduate formal theory sequence at Princeton's Department of Politics. It is designed as an introduction to proof-based, rigorous mathematics. Coverage includes real analysis and the theoretical foundations of differential and integral calculus. I taught this course under Christopher M. Li.

American Politics, Princeton University, Fall 2016 (preceptor)

This is Princeton's undergraduate survey course in American Politics. Coverage includes the Founding and the Constitution; parties and electoral systems; public opinion and the media; polarization; Congress; the Presidency; the bureaucracy; courts; and interest groups and social movements. I taught this course under Nolan McCarty and Sarah Staszak.

Advanced Evidence, Roger Williams University School of Law, Spring 2011 (guest lecturer)

This was a course on the admission and use of scientific evidence at trials, taught by the Honorable William E. Smith of the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island, for whom I was clerking at the time. I taught a session of the class.

Persian Language Courses, The University of Chicago, 2003-2004 (teaching assistant)

While an undergraduate at the University of Chicago, I was a teaching assistant to Saeed Ghahremani in Persian (my native language) for graduate and undergraduate students.