Saeb Kasm

Dr Saeb Kasm (صائب كسم) holds a PhD in Law and Criminology from Queen Mary, University of London where he was a researcher at the International State Crime Initiative.

Saeb currently teaches a broad range of criminology courses at Arden University (School of Criminal Justice) and formerly taught at Birkbeck, University of London School of Law (Department of Criminology).

His research explores the challenges and possibilities of digital technology as a medium for fighting corruption, resisting state crime, upholding human rights, promoting the rule of law and cultivating transparency and accountability.

Saeb recently co-edited a Special Issue of the State Crime Journal on 'State Crime and Digital Resistance' (with Dr Anne Alexander - Cambridge Digital Humanities). The Special Issue brings together leading academics, practitioners and activists to reflect more critically on issues at the intersection of criminology, sociology, media, technology and civic resistance against state crime, political corruption and corporate hegemony.

He served as an anti-corruption consultant for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in Vienna, Austria and contributed to a global database (Tools and Resources for Anti-Corruption Knowledge, TRACK) to better prevent and fight corruption, with a particular focus on the MENA region.

Saeb holds law degrees from the University of Vienna Law School (LL.M. – Public International Law) in Vienna, Austria and Case Western Law School (J.D. – Juris Doctorate) in Cleveland, Ohio. Saeb earned a degree in Government (B.A. – Bachelor of Arts) with distinction from Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California.

Saeb has also had extensive training in international human rights, conflict resolution, multilateral governance, diplomacy and negotiation at Oxford University and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland.

Research Interests

Critical CriminologySocio-legal studiesHuman RightsInternational LawState CrimesGenocide StudiesSurveillance StudiesDigital SociologyDigital HumanitiesOpen Source InitiativesBig Data EthicsCriminology/sociology of DevianceCritical TheoryCritical PedagogyCritical Legal TheoryMarxist Legal TheorySocial MovementCollective ActionAuthoritarianismInternational RelationsConflict and Conflict ResolutionDiscourse AnalysisIntersectionalityEpistemology

Affiliations

Arden University, Criminal Justice, Faculty Member Birkbeck College, University of London, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Faculty Member