Talk at the ICC Summer School - Irish Centre of Human Rights, Galway

Dr. Mohamed Elewa Badar was invited by the Irish Centre for Human Rights, NUI Galway, to deliver a lecture at the ICC Summer School on 'The (mis)Use of Comparative Criminal Law in the Early Jurisprudence of the International Criminal Court'. The lecture was based on Dr. Badar's   forthcoming contribution 'General Principles of Law in the Early Jurisprudence of the ICC' in T Mariniello (ed.), The International Criminal Court in Search of Its Purpose and Identity, Routledge, (forthcoming Dec. 2014)

http://www.nuigalway.ie/irish-centre-human-rights/summerschools/iccsummerschool/

Dr. Mohamed Elewa Badar - ICC Summer School - ICHR, Galway 17 June 2014

Talk at Harvard Law School -the Institute for Global Law and Policy Conference on ‘Heterodox Approaches to Islamic Law and Policy’

Dr. Mohamed Elewa Badar gives a talk at the Institute for Global Law and Policy Conference on 'Heterodox Approaches to Islamic Law and Policy', at Harvard Law School. Dr. Badar presented his recent publication on 'The International Criminal Court and the Nigerian Crisis: An Inquiry into the Boko Haram Ideology and Practices from an Islamic Law Perspective' which appeared this June in International Human Rights Law Review vol. 3/1 (2014) pp. 29-60

New Publication - ‘The International Criminal Court and the Nigerian Crisis: An Inquiry into the Boko Haram Ideology and Practices from an Islamic Law Perspective’

"Since its foundation in 1999 Boko Haram has carried out numerous acts of violence on the territory of Nigeria. The Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has been monitoring the violence between Boko Haram and Nigerian armed forces as part of a preliminary investigation.  It has stated that there is reason to believe that Boko Haram is responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity and that the violence between Boko Haram and the armed forces has reached the level of an armed conflict of non-international character under international law. This paper assesses certain types of behaviour of Boko Haram from an Islamic law perspective and examines whether Islamic law condemns or justifies such acts. Arguably, it would help the ICC in asserting the legitimacy of its judgments, if it was able to prove that such judgments are compatible with the legal and belief system recognised by the actors at trial. In turn it would enable the Court to deal with at least some of the criticism aimed at it, for being an imperialistic institution."

Abstract of the article, co-authored with S. Amin and N. Higgins, which appeared today in International Human Rights Law Review vol. 3/1 (2014) pp. 29-60

Egyptian Fact Finding Committee

On 3 May 2014, Dr. Mohamed Elewa Badar, on the invitation by the President of Egypt National Independent Fact-Finding Committee, addressed the Commissioners and the investigative team on good practices on how to approach individual witnesses, collecting and analyzing the facts and evidence. Dr Badar’s presentation was based on his practical experience in the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry (2011).  

The Fact Finding Committee known as “30 June fact-finding committee” was formed by the Interim President of Egypt in presidential decree No. 698 of 2013 to gather data and evidence on events that occurred during and after the “June 30, 2013 Revolution”.

Training course for senior Palestinian Prosecutors in Amman, commissioned by EUPOL COPPS

The European Union Co-coordinating Office for Palestinian Police Support (EUPOL COPPS) has commissioned Dr. Mohamed Elewa Badar to design a training course on legal litigation and case management for senior Palestinian Prosecutors in Amman, Jordan.

“The aim of the four-day training, which was delivered by mission personnel and Egyptian experts, is to enhance the capacity of the participants in the field of litigation, legal drafting and challenging criminal judgments by means of appeal or cassation. It also focused on the use of standardised documentation (e.g. indictments) through the development of  model templates in terms of structure and content.” More information is available on EUPOL COPPS mission’s website page: EUPOL COPPS

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Lecture delivered to Libyan Judges on the ICC

Dr. Mohamed Elewa Badar on the invitation by the International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Sciences (ISISC) in conjunction with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), addressed high-level Libyan Judges on aspects of the International Criminal Court and Islamic Law. The lecture which took place at the Hague, the Netherlands, is based on work authored by Dr. Badar which appeared in Leiden Journal of International Law (2011), International Criminal Law Review (2013) and International Human Rights Law Review (2014).

Dr Badar with Libyan Judges

Visit to the Supreme Court of the Netherlands (Hoge Raad der Nederlanden)

Talk at Brunel Law School

Dr. Mohamed Elewa Badar gives a talk at Brunel Law School Conference on ‘Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the History of Islamic International Law and the Intercultural Origins of the Law of Nations.’ Dr. Badar presented his current research on ‘Evolution of Ahkam Al Bughat: the Islamic Law of Rebellion and its Significance to the Current International Humanitarian Law Discourse’.

Dr. Mohamed Badar & Prof. Ben Chigara (Chair)