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Bahar Mirhosseni

Director of Legal Advocacy
Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide

Bahar Mirhosseni is a criminal defense and human rights attorney and the Director of Legal Advocacy at the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide. She is also a Lecturer at UC Irvine School of Law with the Immigrant & Racial Justice Solidarity Clinic. Previously, she taught in UCLA’s Pretrial Justice Clinic in partnership with the Los Angeles County Public Defender’s Office and directed global public defense programs at the International Legal Foundation.

Bahar has more than 19 years of experience in indigent defense and human rights advocacy in New York, California, and internationally. Her work has included public defense, criminal-immigration advocacy, post-conviction representation, and collaboration with organizations such as the American Bar Association, Southern Africa Litigation Centre, and the National Association for Public Defense. She currently serves as Chair of the Gender Working Group of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty. Bahar earned her B.A. with Honors from the University of California, Berkeley, and her J.D. from the City University of New York School of Law as a Haywood Burns Fellow in Civil and Human Rights.