Mohamed Arafa

Professor of Law, Prince Sultan University

Mohamed ‘Arafa is an Assistant Professor of Law at the Prince Sultan University College of Law and a Visiting Adjunct Professor of Law & the Clarke Initiative Visiting Scholar at Cornell Law School. He holds a tenure-track professorship appointment at Alexandria University Faculty of Law in Egypt (on leave). In 2023, he joined the Rutgers Center for Security, Race, and Rights at Rutgers University Law School, as an affiliate faculty. In 2022, he was a Visitor-in-Law & the ELEOS Justice Visiting Scholar at Monash University Faculty of Law in Australia. From 2012-2020, he was a Visiting Adjunct Professor of Law at Indiana University McKinney School of Law. In 2021, he was a Visiting Professor of Law at the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (Lebanon). Between 2016-2018, he was a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Brasília Faculty of Law (Brazil). He received his LL.B. from Alexandria University (2006), his LL.M. from the University of Connecticut School of Law (2008), and his SJD (Doctorate) from Indiana University (2013). His teaching/scholarship focuses on criminal law, white collar crimes, human rights law, Islamic law, comparative Middle Eastern law, and transitional justice. His scholarship has appeared/forthcoming in Oxford, Cambridge, Cornell International Law Journal, Seattle Law Review, Indiana Law Review among others.