Dr Mohamed Moussa

Mohamed’s research and teaching span European Union law and comparative constitutional law, with a particular focus on federalism, sovereignty, and constitutional theory more broadly. His scholarship engages with developments across the EU, UK, US, and MENA jurisdictions. He also teaches and researches in the fields of EU sanctions, investment and trade law.

His work has appeared in leading journals, including Public Law, Judicial Review, the Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies, European Investment and Abitration Law Review, the German Law Journal, and the Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law.

He is the author of the monograph, Federal Impartiality: Navigating Divisive Rights in the EU and the US (Hart, 2026), which was praised by Professor Mark Tushnet (Harvard) as a ‘terrific book’ and an ‘illuminating contribution’ to federal constitutional theory. He is also the co-editor of Edward Elgar’s Research Handbook on Judging and the Judiciary.

Mohamed holds a PhD from Cambridge and an LLM from Harvard, which he completed as a Fulbright Scholar. He has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the Cambridge Trust, Fulbright Grant, Harvard Academic Writing Fellowship, Yale University's Fox Fellowship, and the Cambridge CRASSH Early Career Fellowship.

Before entering academia, Mohamed held various professional roles, including serving as a judge and an advisor to the Law Reform Commission. He clerked at the US Federal District Court of Massachusetts and has provided advice to several governments on judicial cooperation, dispute resolution and a wide range of policy issues.

Mohamed's research cuts across EU law, constitutional theory and comparative constitutional law (US, UK and MENA jurisdictions), with emphasis on questions of sovereignty, fundamental rights and social conflict. Mohamed previously taught EU and International Law and is currently supervising EU Law and Constitutional Law.

Prior to joining Cambridge, he held multiple professional posts, including as a judge, law reform commissioner and a public prosecutor in Egypt. He also worked as a judicial clerk at the U.S Federal District Court of Massachusetts during his LLM as a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard Law School.