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Mohammad Hamdy, PILAC Research Assistant, Spring-Summer 2015
Mohammad Hamdy is an S.J.D. candidate at Harvard Law School. As a research assistant at PILAC beginning in spring 2015, Mohammad examines—in English and Arabic—state practice and international law for the Extraterritorial Use of Lethal Force Project.
Mohammad is also a Teaching Fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Law School at Harvard University. Before joining Harvard, he taught public international law for three years at Alexandria University and the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport in Egypt. He wrote a master’s thesis on the Nile Basin dispute and, currently, his S.J.D. dissertation is in the field of international investment law, with particular emphasis on the relationship between the legal regime of investment and economic efficiency. He received his LL.B. from Alexandria University, a Master of Law from Cairo University, and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School. He is a regular contributor to Beirut Institute and a member of the Arab Brain Trust. His research interests include public international law, international economic law, human rights, legal theory, Arab and Islamic law and legal education.