Wadie E. Said
Assistant Professor of Law
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Contact Information
Room 312
USC School of Law
701 Main Street
Columbia, South Carolina 29208
v 803-777-0471
said@law.sc.edu
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Profile
Wadie Said is a graduate of Princeton University and the Columbia University School of Law, where he served as an articles editor of the Columbia Human Rights Law Review.
Prior to joining the faculty at the University of South Carolina, he was a visiting professor in the Law and Society Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an assistant federal public defender in the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the Middle District of Florida, where he represented one of the defendants in U.S. v. Al-Arian, a complex terrorism conspiracy case. Upon graduation from law school, he served as law clerk to Chief Judge Charles P. Sifton of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, and as a litigation associate in the New York office of Debevoise and Plimpton, where he helped coordinate the firm's pro bono political asylum program.
Professor Said has written several studies of Palestinian refugee rights, as well as on the topic of political asylum and torture. He is a member of the board of directors of the Fulbright Association, and speaks Arabic fluently. He teaches courses in criminal law, criminal procedure, and a seminar on international human rights law.
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