Farhang Heydari

Senior Advisor

   farhang.heydari@nyu.edu

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From 2019-22, Farhang served as the Policing Project’s inaugural Executive Director. During that three-year tenure, the Policing Project doubled in staff, tripled in budget, and opened several new project areas. As Legal Director, he then oversaw the Project’s litigation work as well as its efforts regarding policing technologies.

Farhang has long worked on criminal justice reform. In addition to his work at the Policing Project, Farhang is an Assistant Professor of Law at Vanderbilt Law School. Before working at the Policing Project, he worked at the civil rights law firm Neufeld, Scheck and Brustin, LLP, where he focused on representing individuals who have been victims of official misconduct.

Farhang is a graduate of Harvard University and Columbia Law School, where he served as the editor-in-chief of the Columbia Law Review. After law school, Farhang clerked for Judge Diana Gribbon Motz of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals and Judge Kimba Wood of the Southern District of New York.