Wadie Said
Professor of Law
Dean's Faculty Fellow
401 UCB
2450 Kittredge Loop Drive
Wolf Law Building
Boulder, CO 80309
Office: 424
Phone: (303) 492-1526
E-mail: Wadie.Said@colorado.edu
Wadie Said is a professor of law at the University of Colorado School of Law. He 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 Colorado, he was the Miles and Ann Loadholt Chair in Law at the University of South Carolina. He has also been a senior visiting fellow at Georgetown University-Qatar, a visiting professor at UC Davis Law, and a visiting professor in the Law and Society Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara, as well as 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's scholarship analyzes the challenges inherent in adjudicating issues that touch on foreign policy, national security, and criminal law more broadly. His most recent work has appeared in the Wisconsin Law Review, the UCLA Law Review, and the South Carolina Law Review, among others. He is the author of Crimes of Terror (Oxford University Press 2015, paperback 2018), a comprehensive study of the modern terrorism prosecution, covering such topics as coercive interrogation, the use of informants, and the ban on providing material support to designated foreign terrorist organizations. He teaches courses in criminal law, criminal procedure, immigration law, and seminars in international human rights, counterterrorism, and advanced criminal justice.
Courses:
| Fall 2025 | Seminar: Advanced Criminal Justice | LAWS 8315-801 |
| Spring 2025 | Criminal Law | LAWS 5503-801 |
| Spring 2025 | Criminal Procedure: Adjudicative Process | LAWS 7045-801 |
| Fall 2024 | Seminar: Advanced Criminal Justice | LAWS 8315-801 |
| Spring 2024 | Criminal Law | LAWS 5503-804 |
| Spring 2024 | Criminal Procedure: Adjudicative Process | LAWS 7045-801 |
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With our roots in Colorado and a global outlook, we are ...
a supportive and diverse educational and scholarly community in a place that inspires vigorous pursuit of ideas, critical analysis, contemplation, and civic engagement to advance knowledge about the law in an open, just society.
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To be an outstanding public law school that: provides students with a state-of-the-art legal education and prepares them to serve wisely and with professionalism; advances the development of knowledge through scholarship, testing of new ideas, and challenges to the status quo; and serves as a vehicle and catalyst for meaningful public service, all of which deliver high value to our students and have positive impacts?both locally and globally?on the legal profession and society.