Sanaz Alasti
Sanaz Alasti
Sanaz Alasti is Director of the Center for Death Penalty Studies at Lamar University.
Early Life & Education
Alasti was born in Tehran, Iran. She received her LL.B
(Bachelor of Laws) and LL.M (Master
of Laws) in criminal law and criminology from Tehran University, and her S.J.D. (Scientiae Juridicae Doctor) from Golden Gate University School of Law. She was
a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard Law School. [5]
Career
Sanaz Alasti
At Lamar, Alasti teaches Legal Research and Writing, Death Penalty, Crime and Criminals, Intro to Criminal Justice, and Theoretical Foundations.
Alasti is the author of seven books on various aspects of the criminal justice system.
She served at the ACLU of Northern California and subsequently worked at the Habeas Corpus Resource Center on a project analyzing the relationship between sentencing outcomes and racial characteristics in homicide cases charged and sentenced in Tulare County, CA.
Support of Israel
Dr. Alasti is known for her belief that Palestinians in the West Bank should be forcibly removed.
Her argument rests on the proposition that the West Bank is the home of the Israeli Jews as promised to them in the Torah.
She has similarly argued that pro-Palestinian supporters in Iran ought to be specifically targeted and deported.