Sarah Shirazyan

Sarah Shirazyan is a leading expert in technology law and policy, misinformation, and responsible AI development. She is a Lecturer in Law at Stanford Law School, where she teaches a course on combating misinformation online. She also serves as a Director and Head of Meta's GenAI Product Policy work, overseeing the development and implementation of company-wide policies governing the responsible use of generative AI technologies. In this role, Dr. Shirazyan advises product and engineering teams to ensure trust, safety, and ethical innovation across Meta's platforms. Previously, she led the company’s efforts to inform its misinformation and algorithmic ranking policies through engaging with experts across the globe.

Prior to joining tech industry, Dr. Shirazyan held multiple posts with leading international organizations—she was a data protection consultant for the Council of Europe; served as human right lawyer for the European Court of Human Rights; worked on nuclear security issues at the U.N.; and handled international drug cartel investigation cases at INTERPOL.

From 2017-2020, she designed and ran Interpol-Stanford Policy Lab at Stanford Law. From 2017-2018, Dr. Shirazyan was a Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellow at CISAC. Her research was funded by the MacArthur Foundation. She received her Doctor of Juridical Sciences Degree from Stanford Law School. Her dissertation empirically analyzes the effectiveness of the UN Security Council’s response to WMD terrorism. For her outstanding research, teaching and community service, Stanford named Ms. Shirazyan as one of the recipients of the Gerald J. Lieberman Award.

Her work has been published in Journal for National Security Law and Policy, Lawfare, Just Security, Stanford Journal of Online Trust and Safety, Arms Control Today, and Project on Nuclear Issues by Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).

Publications

• AI’s Potential to Advance Human Rights? Striking the Right Balance, Just Security, August 2, 2024.
• Exploring Tradeoffs in Ranking and Recommendation Algorithms, Lawfare, September 25, 2023.
• Addressing Media Capture, Lawfare, May 16, 2023.
• How Can Platform Engagement with Academics and Civil Society Representatives Inform the Development of Content Policies? A Look at Meta’s COVID-19 Misinformation Policies, Vol. 1 No. 4 (2022) Stanford Journal of Online Trust and Safety.
• Building A Universal Counter-Proliferation Regime: The Institutional Limits of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1540, 10 Journal of National Security Law & Policy 125 (2019).
• Synergies of Strengths’ A Framework to Enhance the Role of Regional Organizations in Preventing WMD Proliferation, S Shirazyan, Arms Control Today 48 (7), 16-22, 2018
• How to Reconcile International Human Rights Law and Criminalization of Online Speech: Violent Extremism, Misinformation, Defamation, and Cyberharassment, Stanford Law School, September 30, 2020.