Sadeq Bigdeli is a Barrister & Solicitor in Ontario, Canada. His firm is active in the area of immigration and corporate/commercial and trade law. He has a track record of success in applying for judicial review at the federal court, often achieving favorable settlements with the IRCC. His extensive experience spans across handling complex inadmissibility cases, refugee claims, and deportation matters, ensuring comprehensive support for his clients.
Sadeq has held full-time academic positions in New Zealand (Senior Lecturer 2010-2017) and Iran (SBU National Law School 2016-2020). He has also taught in various universities from the Middle East to Switzerland, Canada, and the US. His main fields of expertise and scholarship include international trade and business law, immigration law, administrative law, and legal
philosophy. He was a visiting scholar Fellow at Osgoode Hall Law School’s Jack and Mae Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security in 2022.
Dr. Bigdeli holds an MA and a Ph.D. in law from the University of Bern, and an LLM (’09) from Harvard Law School. He has co-edited two volumes with Cambridge University Press (2009) and Edward Elgar (2017) and published numerous articles and book chapters in the last decade. He was a postdoctoral research fellow at Georgetown Law School in 2011 and a lecturer at Harvard Institute for Global Law & Policy in Doha in 2014.