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Professor Mohamed ‘Arafa, S.J.D. ’13, will serve as a visitor-in-law at the Monash University Faculty of Law in Melbourne, Australia, from September 1, 2022, through August 31, 2023. Professor ‘Arafa also will serve as a visiting scholar for the 2022-2023 academic year at ELEOS Justice, a collaboration with an NGO and Monash University Faculty of Law working toward ending the use of the death penalty in Asia.

While at Monash, Professor ‘Arafa will participate in the Capital Punishment Justice Project. He will make presentations and teach some classes on new trends in the death penalty, anti-corruption laws and public policy in the Middle East and Muslim world to faculty members, teach seminars for graduate and postgraduate students, and work on a research collaboration as a co-author with Professor Mai Sato on a book chapter to be published by Edward Elgar Publishing on the death penalty in Egypt and Islamic Sharie'a law. The chapter is tentatively titled: "Utilitarianism: The Myth of the Death Penalty as Torture in Egypt and Muslim World” as a part of Elgar Companion on Capital Punishment and Society.” 

Professor 'Arafa is a professor of law at Alexandria University Faculty of Law in Egypt (on sabbatical). In spring 2022, he was the Clarke Initiative Visiting Scholar and adjunct professor of law at Cornell Law School, where he taught anti-corruption law: rule of law, practice, and public policy. He will return to teach comparative Middle Eastern law: contemporary issues at Cornell in spring 2023. He teaches Islamic law and comparative Middle Eastern Law as a visiting adjunct professor at IU McKinney.