Sarah Shirazyan is a Lecturer in Law at Stanford Law School and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. Her work focuses on AI governance, technology law and policy, and free speech.

She has spent more than a decade building technology policy across the tech industry and international organizations. Dr. Shirazyan served as Director of AI Product Policy at Meta, where she led the team responsible for global policies governing the company’s AI products. Earlier, she built and led the team responsible for bringing outside expertise into the company’s content policy development. Her work addressed some of the technology industry’s most consequential questions about online expression and information governance, including state-controlled media, algorithmic distribution, news integrity, misinformation and harmful manipulation, generative AI content, and the fediverse.

Before her work in the technology sector, Shirazyan worked as a human rights lawyer at the European Court of Human Rights and as a data protection consultant at the Council of Europe. She also worked on nuclear security at the United Nations and investigated transnational drug cartel cases at INTERPOL. From 2017-2020, she founded and led the INTERPOL-Stanford Law Policy Lab. The lab advised INTERPOL’s leadership on governance and technology-industry partnerships to combat transnational online crime.

Shirazyan holds a Doctor of Juridical Sciences from Stanford Law School. She received the Gerald J. Lieberman Award for outstanding research and teaching. Her dissertation analyzed the effectiveness of the U.N. Security Council’s response to WMD terrorism. She was also a MacArthur Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation. Her work has appeared in the Journal of National Security Law and Policy, Lawfare, Just Security, the Stanford Journal of Online Trust and Safety, and Arms Control Today.