Mohamed Arafa

Mohamed ‘Arafa is a Professor of Law at Alexandria University Faculty of Law (Egypt) and an Adjunct Professor of Law & the Clarke Initiative Visiting Scholar at Cornell Law School. In Summer and Fall 2025, he is teaching Comparative Law and Comparative White Collar Crimes as a Visiting Professor of Law at the Brazilian Institute of Education, Development and Research (IDP), Faculty of Law, in Brasília, Brazil. In 2023-2024, he was a Visiting Professor of Law at Chandigarh University The Institute of Legal Studies (UILS) in India (Fall 2024) and an Assistant Professor of Law at Prince Sultan University College of Law (Saudi Arabia). He is an affiliate faculty at the Rutgers Center for Security, Race, and Rights at Rutgers University School of Law. In 2022-2023, 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 Robert H. McKinney School of Law (Indianapolis). In 2021, he was a Visiting Professor of Law at the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (Lebanon). Between 2016-2019, he served as 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 and scholarship focus on criminal law, white-collar crimes, human rights law, Islamic law, transitional justice, international & comparative law, and Middle Eastern law. His scholarship appeared/forthcoming in the Cornell Journal of International Law, Seattle Law Review, Indiana International & Comparative Law Review, George Mason Civil Rights Law Journal, Marquette Law Review, Indiana Journal of World Philosophies, Willamette Journal of International Law & Dispute Resolution, Southern Illinois Law Journal, California Western Journal of International Law, Southwestern Journal of International Law, Dartmouth Law Journal, Barry Law Review, New England Law Review, Arizona S. Law Review, Baltimore Journal of International Law, Florida C. Law Review, New South Wales Law Review, Oxford, Cambridge, Springer, Routledge, and Edward Elgar. He is a frequent contributor to "JURIST" Academic Legal Commentary at Pittsburgh Law School; the American Society for Comparative Law Blog; and the Religion and Global Society Blog at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Recently he edited "Perceptions and Misconceptions of Donald Trump" (NOVA New York 2022). In 2018, he edited the Encyclopedia of the Comparative Religion Collection by Time TellerBooks™ (California) "The Koran (Al-Qur’an): Arabic-English Bilingual Edition with an Introduction by Mohamed A. ‘Arafa." His upcoming Book "Systemic Racism and Transitional Justice" (w/Antoni Ninet) is scheduled to be out by Springer in 2026.

Professor ‘Arafa has taught/spoken in Canada (Waterloo University), Australia (Melbourne University; Monash University; Queensland University; New South Wales University & Bond University), India (Symbiosis Law School & Christ University), Europe at the UN Vienna International Center (Vienna), Northumbria University Law School; Manchester University Law School (United Kingdom), Milan University; Parma University; Bologna University, and Napels University (Italy). Also, he taught at the University of Rijeka (Croatia), Sorbonne University Law School Paris I (France), the University of Groningen (Netherlands), and Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia). While in Brazil, he taught at the Catholic University of Brasília; the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul; the Federal University of Bahia (Salvador), and the Federal University of Paraná. In the United States, he spoke at Harvard Law School, Cornell Law School, Texas University Law School (Austin), George Washington University Law School, Georgetown University Law Centre, University of Chicago, University of Illinois, University of Connecticut Law School, Pittsburgh Law School, Southwestern Law School, Albany Law School, Ohio State University Law School, Creighton Law School, California Western Law School, Valparaiso Law School, Indiana University (McKinney & Maurer Law Schools), Wayne State Law School, Rutgers Law School, George Mason Law School, Case Western Reserve Law School, Toledo University, Texas A&M University, Western New England Law School among others. He spoke/taught in many Arab countries, as Tunisia, Morocco, Lebanon, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait. From 2015-2018, he served as the Managing Editor of the Arab Law Quarterly (London) and currently he serves on the editorial board of the LexisNexis Journal of Law in the Middle East. Mohamed speaks Arabic (native), English (fluent), French (conversant), and Brazilian Portuguese (beginner).