Mustafa Aryan is the Harney Program Coordinator at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto.
Mustafa is also the Director of the Security, Gender, and Development Institute, which operates as an international volunteer network of experts producing research and events focused on a gendered analysis of international security and development topics. Mustafa is a Salzburg Global Seminar Fellow and a member of the Executive Committee at the Canadian International Council—Toronto Branch. He often speaks and writes op-eds in English and Persian, several of which have been published in well-known international media outlets. Mustafa holds a master's degree in International Security from the University of Reading in the UK.
Publications
Journal and Book Chapters
Identities in Flux: From Legal Personality to Digital Identity, chapter in collection edited by Prof. Kathryn Henne (pending full review as requested by MIT Press)
2021. The American Border Wall: A History of Legal Division, Law, Culture and the Humanities
2019. The Penholder System and the Rule of Law in the Security Council Decision-Making: Setback or Improvement? 33 Leiden Journal of International Law 139
2019. Elected Member Influence in the United Nations Security Council (with Jeremy Farrall, Christopher Michaelsen, Jochen Prantl, and Jeni Whalan) 33 Leiden Journal of International Law 101
2016. The UN Security Council as Regulator and Subject of the Rule of Law: Conflict or Confluence of Interest? (with Jeremy Farrall) in Hilary Charlesworth and Jeremy Farrall (eds.), Strengthening the Rule of Law through the UN Security Council (Routledge)
2013. The Normative Status of the Responsibility to Protect after Libya 5 Global Responsibility to Protect 317
Other Publications
2020. Borders, Bodies and See-All Technologies: Pushing the Limits of Bio-Surveillance (with Ayelet Shachar) Green European Journal
2015. Emancipating Rituals: Women’s Empowerment through Customary Justice, working paper
2014. Drifting Sovereignty, Regarding Rights Website
2013. This Saturday Australians will Finally Elect a President (with Jeremy Farrall ) The Conversation
2013. Security Council Sanctions: Can Australia Make a Difference? (with Christopher Michaelsen) The Conversation
2013. The Decline of Consent in International Law, The Interpreter