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College Lecturer in Law

CV / Biography

Mohamed teaches EU Law and constitutional law at the undergraduate level. At the graduate level, he contributes to LLM courses in EU Trade Law, focusing on investment and dispute resolution, and the Legislation and Advanced Public Law courses. He has previously taught International Law.

Mohamed's research spans European Union law and comparative constitutional law, with a focus on sovereignty, federalism, and fundamental rights across the EU, UK, US, and MENA jurisdictions. His work has been featured in leading journals including the German Law Journal, Public Law, Cambridge Yearbook for European Legal Studies and Maastricht Journal for European and Comparative Law. He is the author of a forthcoming monograph 'Navigating Divisive Rights in the EU and the US'  and the co-editor of Edward Elgar’s 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 been awarded numerous prestigious scholarships and fellowships, including the Cambridge Trust Scholarship, Fulbright Scholarship, 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 a wide range of policy issues and aspects of dispute resolution.

Selected publications

 

Books

Federal Impartiality: Navigating Divisive Rights in the EU and the US ), forthcoming

Publisher:
Published Forthcoming

Research Handbook on Judging and the Judiciary (ed)), forthcoming

Co-editor(s):
S. Turenne
Published Forthcoming

Articles

"Expanding the Nemo Judex Rule: Reflection on Non-Pecuinary Bias" [2025] Judicial Review

Citation:
[2025] Judicial Review
Published: Forthcoming

"The Shackles of Veto: The American Parallel of Art 19 TFEU and Its Tension with Procedural Justice" (2023) Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies

"Beyond Incomplete Dichotomies: A Structural Typology of Dual Rights in the EU and the US" [2023] German Law Journal (24) 2.

"On sovereign bonds and marijuana: Comparing supremacy limits in the US and the EU" [2021] Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law

Citation:
[2021] Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1177/1023263X211048603
Published: Aug 2021

Case Notes

The Supreme Court and the constitutionalisation of international human rights treaties [2022] Public Law

Co-Author/s:
Ali Moussa
Published: Forthcoming

Blog Posts

Conference Papers

"Factions of Principle and the Limits of Constitutional Neutrality Beyond Dobbs" (Cambridge Centre for Public Law (CPL))

Conference:
Cambridge Centre for Public Law (CPL)
Published: Nov 2023

"The constitutional dimension of sharia-based sovereign bonds" (The Cambridge International Symposium For Economic Crimes)

Conference:
The Cambridge International Symposium For Economic Crimes
Published: Sep 2023

"Judging One’s Own Case: Federal Powers and Divisive Rights" (International Society of Public Law Conference (ICON-S))

Conference:
International Society of Public Law Conference (ICON-S)
Published: Jul 2021

"Private Remedies against Public Corruption" (Harvard Law and Development Conference)

Co-Author/s:
Nicholas Lenning et al.
Conference:
Harvard Law and Development Conference
Published: Dec 2014