Professor 'Arafa, S.J.D. '13, to be Visiting Scholar and Professor at Cornell Law in Fall 2018
01/26/2018
Professor Mohamed 'Arafa, S.J.D. '13, will join the faculty at Cornell Law School in Fall 2018 as a Visiting Scholar and Professor via the Clark Initiative for Law and Development in the Middle East.
He also recently presented "The Status of Corruption in the Post-Arab Spring: A Comparative Analysis between the Arab World and Latin America especially, Brasil," at Pantheon-Sorbonne University (Paris I) School of Law, in Paris, France, on December 14, 2017.
Prior to his appointment at Cornell, Professor 'Arafa will:
- Judge the Price Media Law Moot Court program at Notre Dame De Louaize in Beirut, Lebanon, from January 30 through February 4.
- Give talks at AbuDhabi University on the Dubai Campus and Hassan Almulla Law Firm in the United Arab Emirates.
- Teach an intensive class during March on "Islam, Democracy, and Human Rights" at the University of Pretoria School of Law in South Africa at the LL.M. Graduate Program in Human Rights in Middle East and North Africa.
- Teach in Brazil from April until July as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Brasilia Law School and the Federal University of Paraná Law School.
'Arafa also published:
- "Islam and Elder Care in Egypt after the Arab Spring Uprisings: Between Divine Law and Secular Law: Quo Vadis?" in CALUMET: Intercultural L. & Humanities Rev. (Law & Religion (Online Fall 2017: English Version), reprinted by The International Center for Criminal Sciences.
- "The Meaning of ‘Religion’ in the Legal Context: Some Remarks on the Pragmatics of Islam in Egyptian Law in The Meaning of ‘Religion’ in Multicultural Societies Law," 39 Rivista Telematica [Milan Univ. L. J. “Italy”] (Fall 2017) (co-author with Giancarlo Anello).
‘Arafa is an assistant professor of criminal law and criminal justice at Alexandria University Faculty of Law in Egypt, and taught an online class as an adjunct professor for IU McKinney students during Summer 2017 on Comparative Middle Eastern Law. He joined the British University in Cairo School of Law as a visiting assistant professor for the Fall 2017 semester, and is the director of Training and Research Center of Comparative Law, and the editor-in-chief of the International and Comparative Law Journal.
