Professor Maryam Ahranjani teaches, writes, and speaks in the areas of constitutional rights, criminal law and procedure, and education law. Fluent in Spanish and Persian, Professor Ahranjani's domestic and international professional experience includes working for a boutique education law firm in Washington, DC, the National Association of College and University Attorneys, U.S. Department of Education, U.S. Department of State, U.S. Agency for International Development, ABA Rule of Law Initiative, and law schools in Latin America and Spain. Previously a professor of law at the University of New Mexico School of Law, she joined the Boyd Law faculty in 2025.

The author of numerous book chapters, law review articles, and other articles, Professor Ahranjani is an award-winning leader, teacher, and scholar. In 2023, she received the Deborah L. Rhode Award from the Association of American Law Schools for being a trailblazer in legal education. She is an elected American Bar Foundation Fellow and was named an Albuquerque Woman of Influence. The American Bar Association recognized her with the Raeder-Taslitz Award for excellence in teaching criminal law in 2020. For her “commitment to excellent teaching, community engagement and innovative pedagogy,” Professor Ahranjani earned the University of New Mexico's campus-wide Early Career Teacher of the Year. In 2019, Professor Ahranjani received the Steven S. Goldberg Award for Distinguished Scholarship from the Education Law Association.

Professor Ahranjani thoroughly enjoys community leadership and professional service, including, for example, participating in amicus briefs, working with school districts on equity and inclusion, and speaking with the media about issues of public significance. Professor Ahranjani has served in numerous leadership roles in the Association of American Law Schools, the American Bar Association, and the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project, a program that recruits, trains, and supervises law students who teach public high school students about their constitutional rights and responsibilities.