Professor 'Arafa, S.J.D. '13, Presents on Panel with Professor Waterhouse
05/16/2018
Professor Mohamed 'Arafa, S.J.D. '13, presented on a panel with IU McKinney Professor Carlton Waterhouse at the University of Brasilia School of Law. Their May 10 panel was titled "The Concept of Environmental Justice between U.S. Law and Islamic Law." Professor Waterhouse discussed "Climate Justice in the Era of Trump." Professor 'Arafa presented a talk titled "Does Islamic Law Acknowledge the Concept of Environmental Justice: If Yes, In What Sense?" Their discussion was moderated by Professor Juliano Zaiden Benvindo, a professor of constitutional law at the University of Brasilia School of Law.
Professor 'Arafa also gave talks while in Brazil while teaching and as part of his post-doctoral research program at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná in Curitiba, Brazil. He spoke on "Gender Equality and Minorities Rights in Islamic Law, the Arab and Muslim World, and the West: Quo Vadis?" at the Federal University of Piauí Law School in Teresina on May 7. He presented "Islam under Trial: How is the U.S. Foreign Policy Going toward the Middle East" on May 8 at Federal University of Piauí in Picos. And on May 15, 'Arafa presented "Islam and Terrorism: Any Linkage? (The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly)" at the Catholic University of Brasilia School of International Relations.
Professor 'Arafa's visit with the president of the Federal University of Piauí in Teresina was featured by that university's press. He will be a visiting professor there in April 2019.
Finally, Professor 'Arafa recently published two articles:
"Transnational Justice, the Seeds of Change: Secular Law or Divine (Islamic) Law, Quo Vadis?" was published at 9 Creighton Int’l. & Comp. L. J. 2 (2018), and was reprinted by the Canadian J. Middle East Studies
"Islamic Criminal Law: The Divine Criminal Justice System between Lacuna and Possible Routes," was published at 2 J. Forensic Crime Studies 102
'Arafa 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 will teach the online class "Comparative Middle Eastern Law" as an adjunct professor at IU McKinney during Summer 2018. He is an assistant professor of criminal law and criminal justice at Alexandria University Faculty of Law in Egypt (on sabbatical).
In the photo from left are Professor Carlton Waterhouse, Professor Juliano Zaiden Benvindo, and Professor Mohamed 'Arafa.
