Ali Shirvani is currently an associate professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies of Xi'an International Studies University and a non-resident fellow at the Center for China and Globalization (CCG), P. R. China. Ali studied law at the University of Isfahan and graduated in international law from Xiamen University. He was a research fellow at the Institute of Middle Eastern Studies, Northwest University, Xi’an. His research areas are the conjunctions of international law and constitutional law, where he focused on common standards and comparative norms of constitutions from a transnational perspective. He suggests using legal informatics of constitutional texts to automate, compute, and mechanize legal analysis in his works.
He works on classification methods and, consequently, evaluating constitutions through the prism of international law and human rights values. He is also the founder and editor of the blog constitutional law in Persian producing updated pieces of constitutional latest constitutional matters worldwide as a feed for researchers of the Persian language field. He has written several essays in related areas and translated articles published as a book, Private Law beyond Nation State (Studies on the globalization and Europeanization of private law) with Alireza Arvahi, a selection of essays Jürgen Basedow.