Prof. Mohamed Elewa Badar holds the Chair in Comparative and International Criminal Law & Islamic Law at Northumbria Law School, Newcastle, UK. From 1997 to 2006, he served as a Senior Prosecutor and Judge in Egypt. He also played key roles as an investigator for the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry and in judicial reform efforts in Afghanistan.
Prof. Badar is the author of The Concept of Mens Rea in International Criminal Law (Oxford: Hart, 2015) and has published over 60 articles in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters. His work has been widely cited by international criminal tribunals and leading scholars in the field.
In December 2021, he was appointed as Legal Consultant for Mr. Al Hassan’s Defense Team before the International Criminal Court. In July 2023, he was named an expert on Daesh/IS ideology for UNITAD.