Dr. Hedi Nasheri

Areas of Expertise: Emerging Technologies, Intelligence & National Security, International Terrorism, Cyber Crime & Security, Corporate & Industrial Espionage, Trade Secret Theft & Transnational Crimes.

Biography

Dr. Hedi Nasheri is a Professor of Criminology in the Department of Sociology & Criminology and is the Coordinator for the Cybercriminology degree at Kent State University. She is a Visiting Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Germany and is a Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Turku in Finland. Professor Nasheri’s academic and practical experiences has focused for a number of years on intelligence, global security and intellectual property crimes. She has collaborated throughout the years with members of the Intellectual Property Section of the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation on a number of domestic and international educational & research projects related to cyber and intellectual property crimes. She serves on the U.S. government NIST Generative AI Public Working Group.

More recently, Professor Nasheri served as a Senior Fellow in the Policy Division of the Business Executives for National Security (BENS) in Washington DC. Her work at BENS focused on the theft of trade secrets and its impact on U.S. national and economic security. BENS support the U.S. Government by applying best business practice solutions to its most difficult national security problems. Its government partnerships include: The Departments of State, Treasury, Homeland Security, the Secret Service, Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Central Intelligence Agency.

Professor Nasheri has been involved for a number of years as an active participant at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism in Israel and more recently as an expert participant with the United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice. Through her scholarly work, Dr. Nasheri has established a working relationship with international bodies such as Interpol and Europol and is a member of The French-American Foundation International Working Group on Cybersecurity and the Law under the patronage of Interpol and the French Ministry of the Interior. Dr. Nasheri has held a number of Fellowships & Visiting Scholar appointments at New York University School of Law's Center for Research in Crime and Justice, Columbia University's National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, the Spangenberg Center for Law, Technology & the Arts at Case Western Reserve University School of Law and the University of London's Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. She has written and lectured extensively in the areas of intellectual property crimes. Professor Nasheri is the author of five books, including Economic Espionage and Industrial Spying (Cambridge University Press), as well as numerous articles and monographs on intellectual property, technology and transnational crimes. Her research has been cited by the Blue-Ribbon Commission on Jury System Improvement, the Australian Parliament, the United Nations' International Criminal Tribunal, the United Nations' Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, the South African Law Commission, and in the United States Code Annotated. She is a recipient of several international awards and grants for her work on intellectual property & technology crimes, from the United States Department of Justice and State Department of the United States.

Recent Invited Addresses

The Institute for Accountability in the Digital Age (I4ADA) Cybercrime, Hague, the Netherlands.

Ghent University, Faculty of Law and Criminology, Cybercrime & Cyberwarfare: Entering the Grey Zone, Ghent, Belgium.

The Australian government Cyber Collaboration Center, Cybercrime in the Pandemic Digital Age and Beyond, Adelaide Australia.

UGhent and US Embassy to Belgium, the Violent Extremism and Polarization Workshop held in Brussels, Belgium.

La Società Italiana di Intelligence, Italy,  key note, Industrial Espionage and National Security, Italy.

The Fourteenth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice in Japan.

The ISRAEL HLS & CYBER, initiated by the Israel Export and International Cooperation Institute and the Foreign Trade Administration at the Ministry of Economy and Industry, in cooperation with the National Cyber Directorate at the Prime Minister’s Office, Sibat at the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Public Security and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, virtual participation.

The International Cybersecurity Forum, Lille, France.

The Institute for Counter-Terrorism, Herzliya, Israel.

The Australian Government & the Institute of Criminology, the Gold Coast, Australia, 

The TAC Forum under the patronage of Interpol and Minister of Interior of France, Lyon, France.

The Institute of Computer Science (ICS) of the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH), Greece.

The University of Crete, Rethymn, Greece.

The IEEE Joint Intelligence and Security Informatics (JISIC) Hague, the Netherlands.

The Russian and East European Institute, Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana.

The Institut De Droit Compare Faculte De Droit, Comparative Law Institute at the Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, Lyon France.

The Emir of the State of Qatar & Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Doha Forum,  Doha Qatar.

The INTERPOL and the French Ministry of Interior, TAC FORUM, Lyon France.

The Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Columbia University, New York, New York.

The Istanbul University Faculty of Law, Istanbul Law School, Istanbul Turkey.

Select Publications and Reports

Nasheri, H. State-Sponsored Economic Espionage in Cyberspace: Risks and Preparedness. In: Smith, R.G., Sarre, R., Chang, L.YC., Lau, L.YC. (eds) Cybercrime in the Pandemic Digital Age and Beyond. Palgrave Studies in Cybercrime and Cybersecurity. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.

Nasheri, H. The Dumb and the Dangerous Road Ahead, in Freedom from Fear Magazine, Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Risk Mitigation, UNICRI, the United Nations International Crime and Justice Research Institute.

Nasheri, H. Criminal justice responses to prevent and counter cybercrime in all its forms, including through the strengthening of cooperation at the national and international levels. The report was prepared for the 27th UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice meeting in Vienna.

Nasheri, H. The Impact of Intellectual Property Theft on National & Global Security in P. Reichel & R. Randa (eds.), Transnational Crime and Global Security, Praeger.

Nasheri, H, Economic Espionage and Industrial Spying, Cambridge University Press.

Nasheri, H. "The Challenge of Economic Espionage", World Politics Review.

Nasheri, H. "Intellectual Property, Organized Crime and Terrorism", International Journal of Comparative Criminology, Vol. 4, Number 1.

Nasheri, H. "Intellectual Property, Organized Crime and Terrorism", Reprinted in J. Albanese, ed. Transnational Crime (de Sitter).

Nasheri, H. "The Breadth and Dynamics of Illegal Internet Drug Sales: The Emergence of an Ill-Defined Marketplace and the Case of the United States," Monatsschrift fur Kriminologie and Strafrechtsreform, Vol. 90 Issue 2/3.

Nasheri, H. "The Intersection of Technology Crimes and Cyberspace in Europe: The Case of Hungary ", Information & Communications Technology Law, Vol. 12, No. 1.

Nasheri, H. & O'Hearn T.J. "The Worldwide Search for Techno-thieves: International Competition v. International Co-operation", International Review of Law, Computers & Technology, Vol. 13, No. 3.

Nasheri, H. & O'Hearn, T.J. "Crime and Technology: New Rules for a New World" Information & Communications Technology Law, Vol. 7, No. 2.

Nasheri, H. & O'Hearn T.J. "Hightech Crimes and The American Economic Machine", International Review of Law, Computers & Technology, Vol. 13, No. 2, (November).

MacOdrum, D, Nasheri, H. & O'Hearn T.J. "Spies in Suits: New Crimes of the Information Age from the United States and Canada Perspectives", Information & Communications Technology Law, Vol. 10, No. 2.

Nasheri, H. & Rudolph, R.J. "An Active Jury: Should Courts Encourage Jurors to Participate in the Questioning Process", The American Journal of Trial Advocacy, Vol. 16, No. 1.

Nasheri, H. & O'Hearn, T.J. "Crime and Technology: New Rules for a New World", Reprint, Criminal Law Bulletin, Vol. 134, No. 6.

Nasheri, H. & O'Hearn T.J. "The Worldwide Search for Techno-thieves: International Competition v. International Co-operation", in Cyberspace Crime, Reprinted, D.S. Wall, ed. London, Ashgate.

Nasheri, H. & DeMarco, V. "True Confessions? A Critique of Arizona v. Fulminante", American Journal of Criminal Law, Vol. 21, No. 2.

Nasheri, H. "Policing Shanghai 1927-1937", International Criminal Justice Review, Vol. 6.

Nasheri, H. "The Exclusionary Rule: Differing Trends in Canada and United States", Criminal Justice Review, Vol. 21, No. 2.

Nasheri, H. & Rudolph, D. "Equal Protection Under the Law: Improving Access to Civil Justice", The American Journal of Trial Advocacy, Vol. 20, No 2.

Nasheri, H. "A Spirit Of Meanness: Courts, Prisons and Prisoners", Cumberland Law Review, Vol. 27, No 3.

Nasheri, H. "Prenuptial Agreements in the United States: A Need For Closer Control?", International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, 12. Oxford University Press.

Nasheri, H. & O'Hearn, T.J. "Crime and Technology: New Rules for a New World", Reprint, Criminal Law Bulletin, Vol. 134, No. 6.

Nasheri, H. "The Rights Revolution: Lawyers, Activists, and Supreme Courts in Comparative Perspective", International Criminal Justice Review, Vol. 10.

MacOdrum, D, Nasheri, H. & O'Hearn T.J. "Spies in Suits: New Crimes of the Information Age from the United States and Canada Perspectives", Information & Communications Technology Law, Vol. 10, No. 2.

Nasheri, H. & O'Hearn T.J. "The Worldwide Search for Techno-thieves: International Competition v. International Co-operation", in Cyberspace Crime, Reprinted, D.S. Wall, ed. London, Ashgate.

Nasheri, H. "Digital Crime", Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment, Vol. 2, Berkshire Publishing Group.

Nasheri, H. & Kratcoski, P. Jr. A Guide to a Successful Legal Internship, Anderson Publishing Co., Cincinnati , Ohio.

Nasheri, H. Criminal Law Volume of Encyclopedia of Criminology & Criminal Justice,by Wiley-Blackwell.

Nasheri, H. Crime and Justice in the Age of Court TV, New York, LFB Scholarly Publishing.

Nasheri, H., Kratcoski, P. Jr. Internships in the Legal Profession: A Beginners' Roadmap to Success, Erudition Books, Massachusetts.

Nasheri, H. Betrayal of Due Process: A Comparative Assessment of Plea Bargaining in the United States and Canada, University Press of America, New York, Oxford.

Nasheri, H. "The Intersection of Technology Crimes and Cyberspace in Europe: The Case of Hungary ", Information & Communications Technology Law, Vol. 12, No. 1.

Nasheri, H. "Global risks of economic espionage, industrial spying and international trade secrets",in McCusker , R. (ed.), Transnational Crime: A global perspective,  Henry Stewart Talks Ltd, London.

Nasheri, H. "Addressing the Global Scope of Intellectual Property Crimes and Policy Initiatives", Trends in Organized Crime, Vol. 8 No. 4.

Nasheri, H. "Addressing Global Scope of Intellectual Property Law" (U.S Department of Justice, Document Number 208384, NCJ 208384

Nasheri, H. "Intellectual Property, Organized Crime and Terrorism", International Journal of Comparative Criminology, Vol. 4, Number 1.

Nasheri, H. "Intellectual Property, Organized Crime and Terrorism", Reprinted in J. Albanese, ed. Transnational Crime (de Sitter).