Dr. Mohamed Elewa Badar joined Northumbria Law School, Newcastle, as a Reader in comparative and international criminal law and Islamic law in July 2013. His main research and teaching interests lay in international and comparative criminal justice, in international human rights, as well as in post-conflict justice and Islamic law. Previously, he served as Senior Prosecutor and Judge in Egypt (1997-2006), was a member of the recent 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, and participated in the judicial reform of the Afghan judiciary (2004-2005). He also had the opportunity to work as a consultant for the UN Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute, the United States Institute for Peace, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, and the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO).
Dr. Badar holds a PhD in comparative and international criminal law and a first class honours LL.M. degree in international human rights from the National University of Ireland, Galway, and a Bachelor of Law (LLB) and a Bachelor of Police Sciences from the Police College, Police Academy, Egypt. He is the author of the Concept of Mens Rea in International Criminal Law (Oxford: Hart, 2013) and has published a number of articles and chapters in books. Dr. Badar is member of the Editorial Board and Reviewer of the International Criminal Law Review and the International Human Rights Law Review.