Zahr K. Said is Charles I. Stone Professor of Law at the ºìÌÒÊÓƵ. Said holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Harvard University, a J.D. from Columbia (where she was a Kent Scholar and served as Articles Editor for the Columbia Journal of Law and the Arts) and a B.A. in comparative literature from U.C. Berkeley. She taught at the University of Virginia School of Law for three years as a Visiting Professor of Law, and was a Visiting Professor at Stanford Law School in 2018. Said's research applies humanistic methods, theories, and texts to problems in legal doctrine and policy. Her work has appeared in the Indiana Law Journal, Lewis and Clark Law Review, the Iowa Law Review, Cardozo Law Review, North Carolina Law Review, Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, Stanford Technology Law Review, and Columbia Journal of Law and the Arts, as well as in edited volumes on intellectual property and law and the humanities published by Elgar, Frontier Publishing, Cornell University Press, and Oxford University Press. Current works in progress examine jury instructions in copyright law; translation theory and issues of language, genre, and audience reception in copyright law; and the diversification of legal education, focusing on tort law. In addition, Said is the author of , a free, interactive, open-source casebook centering tort law on issues of race, gender, class and ability, published by CALI’s e-Langdell series and now in its second edition. She teaches copyright, tort law, and a seminar on defamation and disinformation. She is an affiliate of the Center for an Informed Public at the University of Washington.
