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Professor Mohamed Badar

Professor

Department: Northumbria Law School

ProfMohamed Elewa Badar holds the Chair in Comparative and International Criminal Law & Islamic Law at Northumbria Law School, Newcastle, UK.

Professor Badar previously held a position as a Senior Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies at Brunel Law School, London (2007-2013). He has also taught and acted as a convenor of International Law & Islamic Law module at Durham Law School (2011-2013).

Prof Badar served as Senior Prosecutor and Judge in Egypt from 1997-2006. He was a member (investigator) of the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry to investigate and report on allegations of human rights violations during the civil unrest in Bahrain in February/March 2011. He has participated in the judicial reform in Afghanistan.

In May 2021, he participated in training Iraqi judges and prosecutors on substantive international criminal law as part of a UNITAD project to strengthen. In December 2021, he was appointed to act as the Legal Consultant of Mr Al Hassan's Defence Team before the International Criminal Court, and in July 2023, he was appointed to act as an ideology expert for UNITAD.

Prof. Badar is the Director of the Northumbria International Criminal Law and Practice LLM Programme. In February 2025, he co-led the initiative of the new legal knowledge exchange program hosted by the Office of the Attorney General of Egypt alongside Counsellor Aly Mokhtar, Chief of Egypt's Prosecution Offices and Digitalization.

Mohamed Badar

Campus Address

3 Ellison Terrace
Office 114


Prof Badar is the author of(Oxford: Hart, 2013/2015). He published over 60 articles in refereed journals and chapters in prominent books. His work was cited and quoted by the international criminal tribunals and by distinguished scholars. He wrote intensively on hate speech and hate propaganda and contributed to the recent report by the Nuremberg Principles Academy on His recent research appears in Leiden Journal of International Law, Texas International Law Journal, Nordic Journal of Human Rights and the International Criminal Law Review.

  • Rasem Alnmrush Enforcing confiscation, freezing, asset recovery, and enhancing international collaboration and Mutual Legal Assistance on LCs-based money laundering and financing terrorism in Libya: A comparative study between Libya, Tunisia, and the UK. Start Date: 01/10/2021
  • Usame Altuntas The Crossroads of Islamic and Western Perspectives on Dignity and Punishments Start Date: 01/10/2020

  • Law PhD September 01 2002
  • Law LLM January 01 2001
  • Fellow (FHEA) Higher Education Academy (HEA) 2010


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