Professor Mohamed Badar

Professor

School: Northumbria School of Law

Prof Mohamed Elewa Badar holds the Chair in Comparative and International Criminal Law & Islamic Law at Northumbria Law School, Newcastle, UK.

Professor Badar previously held a position as a Senior Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies at Brunel Law School, London (2007-2013). He has also taught and acted as a convenor of International Law & Islamic Law module at Durham Law School (2011-2013).

Prof Badar served as Senior Prosecutor and Judge in Egypt from 1997-2006. He was a member (investigator) of the 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. He has participated in the judicial reform in Afghanistan.

In May 2021, he participated in training Iraqi judges and prosecutors on substantive international criminal law as part of a UNITAD project to strengthen the Iraqi judiciary. In December 2021, he was appointed to act as the Legal Consultant of Mr Al Hassan's Defence Team before the International Criminal Court, and in July 2023, he was appointed to act as an ideology expert for UNITAD.

Prof. Badar is the Director of the Northumbria International Criminal Law and Practice LLM Programme. In February 2025, he co-led the initiative of the new legal knowledge exchange program hosted by the Office of the Attorney General of Egypt alongside Counsellor Aly Mokhtar, Chief of Egypt's Prosecution Offices and Digitalization.

Campus Address

3 Ellison Terrace
Office 114

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Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

Prof Badar is the author of The Concept of Mens Rea in International Criminal Law (Oxford: Hart, 2013/2015). He published over 60 articles in refereed journals and chapters in prominent books. His work was cited and quoted by the international criminal tribunals and by distinguished scholars. He wrote intensively on hate speech and hate propaganda and contributed to the recent report by the Nuremberg Principles Academy on “Understanding Hate Speech within the Context of International Criminal Law”. His recent research appears in Leiden Journal of International Law, Texas International Law Journal, Nordic Journal of Human Rights and the International Criminal Law Review.

Key Publications

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Human dignity at crossroads: Navigating Eurocentrism in Sharia punishments in Prosecutor v. Al Hassan, Badar, M., Altuntas, U., Amin, E. 1 Mar 2026, In: Leiden Journal of International Law
Laying the Groundwork for Prosecuting ISIS for Core International Crimes before an Iraqi Criminal Tribunal 2.0, Badar, M. 1 Dec 2025, In: International Criminal Law Review
Secondary Liability for International Crimes in Iraq, Badar, M., Mohsin, Z., Abbas, H. 6 Oct 2025, Principles of Secondary Liability for International Crimes and Serious Human Rights Violations, Cambridge , Cambridge University Press
Secondary Liability for International Crimes in the Egyptian Criminal Law, Badar, M., Essawy, R., Omar, Y. 6 Oct 2025, Principles of Secondary Liability for International Crimes and Serious Human Rights , Cambridge, Cambridge University Press
The International Criminal Court, Islamic Legal Tradition, and the Arab World: Quo Vadis?, Badar, M. 9 Oct 2025, The International Criminal Court, The Hague, The Netherlands, Brill
Legal Pluralism, Cultural Defenses and the Islamic Legal Tradition (Sharia) Towards a Truly International Criminal Court, Badar, M. 2024, In: Texas International Law Journal
How Should Responsible Religious Leaders React to Hate Speech in their Community?, Badar, M., Essawy, R. 17 Jul 2023, Religion, Hateful Expression and Violence , Brussels, Belgium, Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublishers
The Challenges of Addressing Transnational Organized Maritime Crimes: A Review of Current Law and Practice in Djibouti, Badar, M., Higgins, N. 27 Mar 2023, In: Transnational Criminal Law Review
Killing in the Name of Islam? Assessing the Tunisian Approach to Criminalising Takfir and Incitement to Religious Hatred against International and Regional Human Rights Instruments, Badar, M., Florijančič, P. 16 Mar 2022, In: Nordic Journal of Human Rights
The International Criminal Court, Islamic Legal Tradition, and the Arab World: Quo Vadis?, Badar, M. 25 Jul 2022

PGR Supervision

Usame Altuntas The Crossroads of Islamic and Western Perspectives on Dignity and Punishments Start Date: 01/10/2020 End Date: 24/12/2025
Rasem Alnmrush Critical Crossroads: An Empirical and Doctrinal Examination of Vulnerabilities in Letters of Credit within Libya’s AML/CFT Framework, with Comparative Insights from Tunisia and the United Kingdom Start Date: 01/10/2021 End Date: 26/04/2026

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