Mohammed Al-shuwaiter
Mohammed Al-shuwaiter
Co-founder & Executive Director of Qānūn, the Arabic human Rights platform




Biography

Research interests

  • Middle East Legal System
  • International Law
  • Human Rights
  • Rule of Law

Mohammed is a co-founder and the executive director of Qānūn, the Arabic Human rights Platform. He is a Yemeni jurist with an L.L.M. in international law from American University Washington College of Law AUWC, Washington DC, where he specialized in international humanitarian law and human rights. He was a Fulbright-Humphrey Fellow in Law and Human Rights at AUWCL (2014-2015). In Yemen, Mohammed obtained a law degree, and an L.L.M in Islamic Jurisprudence, and worked as a legal researcher at the Ministry of Justice, and was a constitutional consultant for the Rapporteur of the Constitutional Drafting Committee in Yemen at constitutional committee with the. Mohammed’s expertise in the area of international humanitarian law and human rights enabled him to provide consulting services to a number of international organizations, such as the World Bank, working on the Middle East. Mohammed has also published a series of articles. Mohammed is a native Arabic speaker, fluent in English.