Zamir joined the faculty at Temple University Beasley School of Law in 2022. His teaching career began in 2019 as an adjunct professor in the Black and Latino Studies Department at Baruch College, where he would teach for five semesters. He taught as an adjunct in CUNY Law’s first-year lawyering program for full-time students in the 2020-2021 academic year. He then served as the interim director of the program the following academic year, creating the simulation, writing the syllabi, and designing the curriculum for over 150 full-time students. He created a practitioner course through the National Association for Public Defense (NAPD) called “Warrior Motion Practice,” teaching a methodical approach to creative motion writing as a means of addressing social wrongs. He taught the course several times in 2021 and 2022 for the NAPD, and he has taught it on occasion at various organizations since then. In just his fourth year at Temple Law, Zamir won the coveted George P. Williams III Memorial Award for Outstanding Professor of the Year from the graduating class of 2026, a testament to his excellence in teaching.
Zamir’s research lies in the areas of constitutional law, criminal law, racism and American history, and his emerging scholarship interrogates the ways in which the Constitution promotes racism and anti-Blackness. He published an online book, Warriors in Law: Black Attorney Profiles in New York City Public Defense, which provides a comprehensive portrait of New York City’s criminal law scene from the lens of fifty-four Black attorneys. A prolific writer, he has written over fifteen articles and essays during his four years at Temple that have either been published or accepted for publication. His academic articles and essays have been published or are forthcoming in the UCLA Law Review, Boston University Law Review, Iowa Law Review, Cardozo Law Review, Harvard Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Law Review, and Columbia Law Review Forum, among other placements. He has presented his work at several notable conferences, including the Harvard/Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum, the Michigan Junior Scholars Conference, the Columbia, Georgetown, USC, UCLA, Penn & Stanford Law and Humanities Junior Scholars Workshop, and at various John Langston Conferences. One of his articles was reprinted in the 38th volume of the Civil Rights Litigation and Attorney Fees Annual Handbook, published by the National Lawyers Guild (NLG). Another article was cited by the Honorable Carlton W. Reeves of the Southern District of Mississippi.
Prior to and during his academic career, Zamir spent six-and-a-half years at the Legal Aid Society in New York City. First he served as a staff attorney in the Bronx Criminal Trial Practice for four years, representing hundreds of clients on both felony and misdemeanor matters and winning most of his trials. In 2019, he joined the Community Justice Unit, where he provided wrap-around legal services to participants in non-profit organizations that do Cure Violence work. In 2017, he was a founding member of the Black Attorneys of Legal Aid caucus (BALA), an amalgamation of over 100 Black Legal Aid lawyers that advocates for racial justice both within and without the Legal Aid Society. He served in BALA leadership for nearly five years.
In 2024, Zamir was appointed to serve as a subject matter expert for the NextGen Bar Exam, a role in which he has both crafted and reviewed counseling and drafting sets that will be used on actual exams. In 2026, he was reappointed to an additional five-year term.