Ahmed Abdelgawad

Ahmed Abdelgawad

Assistant Professor

  • Dr. Ahmed Abdelgawad is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of law at The British University in Egypt. His primary field of expertise focuses on comparative legal studies, Comparative Constitutionalism and Islamic legal theory. Dr. Abdelgawad holds his PhD from Alexandria University, Faculty of law where the main focus of his PhD research was on “the analytical study of the role of the jurisprudential rules in the Egyptian Constitutional Supreme Court’s case law” where he examined the jurisprudence and the judicial doctrine of the court over 50 years.He also holds two master’s degrees. During his second LLM at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law as a Fulbright Scholar in Comparative Constitutional Law and Human Rights, he received the Dean’s Achievement Award for his studies on constitutional amendments in the United States and throughout the world. He was employed by the Aspen Institute in Washington, D.C. as a member of the legal research team for the Inclusive America Project, where he conducted study on the First and Fourteenth Amendments jurisprudence.

Education

  • He also holds dual bachelor’s degrees in jurisprudence and civil law. Since 2017, Dr. Abdelgawad has been teaching at the faculty of law at the British University in Egypt. He also served as the Director’s assistant of the centre of law and emerging technologies, where he profoundly played a significant and primary role in organising different workshops and producing many legal reports. Moreover, he holds many leadership roles as he is a member of the Quality Assurance Committee, and the Higher Committee of the Programme Change, as well as the Director of the Legal Practice and development centre.