Mahmoud Hamad

MAHMOUD HAMAD

EDUCATION

• Ph.D.

  Department of Political Science, University of Utah, August 2008, (American Politics, Comparative Politics, and Constitutionalism). 

• HETS

  , Higher Education Teaching Specialist Designation, University of Utah (Fall 2007 - Spring 2008).

• M.A.

  , with Distinction in Political Science, Cairo University, 2001, (American Politics). 

• Fulbright 

  Scholar, University of Washington, 1999-2000.

• B.A.

  , magna cum laude in Political Science (Minor in Economics and Public Administration), Cairo University, 1996.

Research Interests:

constitutionalism, judicial politics, democratization and regime change, political inequality and democracy, civil-military relations.

Courses Taught: 

American Politics, Introduction to Comparative Science, Introduction to International Relations, Arab-Israeli Conflict, Comparative Law and Courts, Islam and Politics, Social Media and Change in the Third Millennia, Middle East Through Films, Islam in the 21^stCentury, Comparative Politics of the Middle East, Model Arab League, the History, Politics and Society of Modern Egypt. Internship in Politics. 

Current Positions: 

• Assistant Professor of Political Science, Cairo University.
• Expert, Judicial Reform in Tunisia, High Judicial Council, UNDP, and OHCHR.
• Fellow, Schusterman Center for Israel Studies, Brandeis University.

Previous Positions: 

• Secretary General, Arab Association of Constitutional Law, 2016- 2018.
• Lead Expert, Libyan Constitutional Drafting Assembly, August 2015 - September 2017

• Deputy Chief of Party, Creative Associates International - Libya, October 2016-September 2017. 

• Associate Professor of Political Science, Drake University, 2008-2016.
• Instructor, Department of Political Science & Middle East Center, University of Utah, Fall 2005- Spring 2008,
• Instructor, Department of Political Science, Brigham Young University, Fall 2005. 
• Teaching Assistant, Department of Political Science, University of Utah, Aug. 2003–May 2005
• Lecturer, Political Science Department, Cairo University, Oct. 1996–July 2002:

SERVICE TO THE ACADMIC COMMUNITY

• Board member, Executive Committee of the International Political Science Association Research Committee on Comparative Judicial Studies, 2015- Present.
• Member, International Cooperation Committee, Arab Association of Constitutional Law, 2016- Present.
• Chair, Scientific Committee, Arab Association of Constitutional Law, 2014-2016. 

• Member, IFSA-Butler Advisory Board.

• Founding Director, Arab Constitutional Law Academy. 

Languages 

• Arabic: Native 
• English: Fluent 
• French: Basic 

PUBLICATIONS (English) 

• Judges and Generals in the Making of Modern Egypt: How Institutions Sustain and Undermine Authoritarian Regimes, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018). 
• “Egypt: The Lingering Battle for Female Judgeship” in Josephine J. Dawuni and Gretchen Bauer (eds.), Gender and the Judiciary in Africa: From Obscurity to Parity?(New York: Routledge, 2015). 
• “Political Rights of Women in Egypt’s Second Republic: Ambitious Aspirations and Dismal Realities,” ConstitutionNet, International IDEA, August 2015.
• Elections and Democratization in the Middle East, with Khalil Al-Anani (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). 
• Case studies: Egypt and Venezuela (with Mathew Mitchell and Jeffery Kappen, In: Ilan Alon, Eugene Jaffe, Global Marketing: Contemporary Theory, Practice, and Cases, (New York: McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2014).
• “Egypt’s Litigious Transition: How Judicial Activism Muddied the Road to Democracy,” Issue Brief, The Atlantic Council, May 2013.
• “Elections and Beyond: Democratization, Democratic Consolidation, or What?” in Mahmoud Hamad and Khalil Al-Anani (eds.), Elections and Democratization in the Middle East, (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). 
• “The Rocky Road to Egypt’s Constitution,” in Ergun Özbudun (ed.) The Democratic and Constitutional Transitions in the Middle East, (Istanbul: TOBB, 2014). 
• “The Constitutional Challenges in Post-Mubarak Egypt,” Insight Turkey, Vol. 14 / No. 1/ 2012, pp. 51-69.
• “Liberalism without Democracy: Nationhood and Citizenship in Egypt,” Book Review, Comparative Political Studies, Spring 2008.
• “The Politics of Justices Selection in Egypt,” in Kate Malleson and Peter Russell (eds.) Appointing Judges in an Age of Judicial Power: Critical Perspectives from Around the World(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006). 

PUBLICATIONS (Arabic) 

• The Arab Constitutional Law Association Year Book, co-editor with Zaid Al-Ali and Yussef Auf, 2017. 
• “Judicial Review in the Arab World: Lessons Learned,” in The Arab Constitutional Law Association Year Book, Mahmoud Hamad, Zaid Al-Ali and Yussef Auf (eds.), 2017. 
• The Evolution of Arab Constitutions before the Third Millennia,” in The Arab Constitutional Law Association Year Book, Mahmoud Hamad, Zaid Al-Ali and Yussef Auf (eds.), 2017. 
•  “Judicial Review in the Arab World”, International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, September 2014.
• “The Asia Pivot: Obama’s Foreign Policy in the Second Term,” Aljazeera Center for Studies, February 2013.
•  “The Judiciary in the New Constitution: A Comparative Study with the 1971 Constitution,” in A Reading into the Constitutional Draft, House of Wisdom, December 2012. 
• “Mitt Romney: the Highlights of the Potential Next US President,” Aljazeera Center for Studies, October 2012.
• “U.S.-China Relations and the Strategic and Economic Dialogue,” with David Skidmore, Aljazeera Center for Studies, August 2012. 
• “Obama’s Challenger: The mechanisms for Selecting the Republican Candidate for the Presidency,” Al Siyassa Al Dawliya(International Politics) Ahram Foundation, April 2012, Vol. 47, Issue 188, pp. 100-103. 
• “The Determinants of the US Position on the Middle East”, Al Siyassa Al Dawliya,June 2002.
• “United States After September 11th: The Change of Thought and Practice”, Al Siyassa Al Dawliya,January 2002.
• “The future of the US party system”, Meglet Al-Dymocratia (Journal of Democracy), NO. 1, Vol. 1, September 1999.

CONFERENCES AND INVITED PRESENTATIONS

• Constitutional Review Procedures for the Protection of Fundamental Rights in the MENA Region, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Italy March 12-13, 2018
• “Constitutional Courts in the Arab World: Ambitions and Aspirations,” Arab Association of Constitutional Law and Gulf Knowledge Center for Research and Studies, Kuwait, December 10^th, 2017. 
• “Nomination and Appointment Procedures of Justices to Constitutional Courts and Councils: Impact, Controversies and Reforms, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung and Arab Association of Constitutional Law, Beirut, Lebanon, October 21^st– 22^nd, 2017. 
• “Exception of Unconstitutionality in the Arab World,” UNDP and Constitutional Council of Algeria, Algiers, Algeria, June 4^th– 5^th, 2017.
• “Religion and State,” Harvard Law School, Arab Association of Constitutional Law, and Tunisian Association of Constitutional Law, Tunis, Tunisia, March 24^th-25^th, 2017. 
• “Upper Chambers in the Arab Region” Constitutional Council of Algeria, University of Oran II, Arab Association of Constitutional Law, Oran, Algeria, December 14^th– 15^th, 2016. 
• “Decentralization and the State in the Arab Region,” Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdallah University (Fez University) and Arab Association of Constitutional Law, Fas, Morocco, 3^rd-4^thNovember 2016. 
• “Construction Constitutional Processes in Latin America,” University of Chile, Santiago, Chile, October 21^st-22^nd, 2015. 
• “Constitution-building in Africa Workshop,” Central European University (CEU), Budapest, 2015 July 20^th– 31^st, 2015.
• “The Third Wave of Constitutions in the Arab World,” The Arab Constitutional Law Association Fourth Annual Conference, Cairo, Egypt, May 15^th-16^th, 2015.
• “The Role of the Judiciary in Protecting Civil and Economic Rights: North Africa and the Gulf,” The Arab Constitutional Law Association Third Annual Conference, Beirut, Lebanon, October 16^th-17^th, 2014. 
• “The Courts and Elections in Democracies and Autocracies: Some Lessons from the Arab Spring,” Australian Political Science Association Annual Conference, Sydney Australia, September 28^th– October 1^st, 2014. 
• “A Region Long Forgotten: The United States and the Arab World,” The Arab World and the US: Interests and Concerns in a Changing Environment (An Academic Perspective), Doha, Qatar, June 14^th-16^th, 2014. 
• “Judicial Review in the Arab World,” The Arab Constitutional Law Association Second Annual Conference, Rabat, Morocco, December 19^th-20^th, 2013.

• “Judicialization of Politics in Egypt’s Second Republic,” The International Political Science Association Research Committee on Comparative Judicial Studies, (Dublin, Ireland) July 22^nd-24^th, 2013.  
• “The Judiciary and the New Political Order after the Arab Spring,” The Arab Council for The Social Sciences Inaugural Conference: Arab Transformations: Interrogating the Social Sciences, (Beirut, Lebanon), March 19^th-20^th, 2013 
• Interagency Symposium on the Egyptian Judiciary and Legal Reform, November 2^nd, 2012, Washington, D.C
• “Judges and the Fall of the Pharaoh,” International Political Science World Congress, (Madrid, Spain), July 2012.  
• “Egypt’s Constitutional Making Process in the Post-Mubarak Era,” International Workshop Program on Democratic and Constitutional Transitions in the Middle East, (İstanbul Şehir Üniversitesi, İstanbul, Turkey), May 11^th -12^th, 2012.  
• “Judicialization without Democratization: the Council of State and Political Accountability in Egypt,” International Political Science Association Research Committee on Comparative Judiciary, University of California-Irvine, July 21^st -23^rd, 2011.  
• “Republican Dynasties in the Global South,” the 68^thMidwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, 20^th- 25^thApril 2010.
• “Generals and Judges in Egypt and Pakistan: the Struggle for Domination and Independence,” Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 2009.
•  “Could it be the Courts? Judges and Politics in Egypt,” presented at the American Political Science Association 2007 Annual Meeting: Political Science and Beyond, Chicago, August 30^th- September 2^nd, 2007.
• “The Role of Egypt’s State Council in Protecting Civil and Political Rights,” presented at The International Political Science Association Research Committee on Comparative Judicial Studies, University of Naples, Naples, January 26^th-27^th, 2005.
• “The Politics of Justices Selection in Egypt,” presented at The International Political Science Association Research Committee on Comparative Judicial Studies, London School of Economics, London, January 29^th-30^th, 2004.
• “Monarchy-Like Republics: Will Egypt Follow?” presented at 2003 Middle East & Central Asia: Politics, Economics, & Society Conference, Contemporary Affairs & Future Prospects, Salt Lake City, Oct. 16^th-18^th, 2003
• “The Egyptian Supreme Constitutional Court: The Dual Search for Legitimacy,” presented at The International Political Science Association Research Committee on Comparative Judicial Studies, University of Parma, Parma, Italy, June 16^th-18^th, 2003.
• “US after September 11^th: Changes in Policy Process,” Presented at The Second American Studies Conference at Cairo University: United States After September 11^th: The Change in Politics and Society, May 11^th-12^th, 2002.
• “Liberalism: Policies for the Future,” presented at The International Leadership Academy, Friedrich Naumann Stiftung, Gummersbach, Germany, April 21^st-29^th, 2002.
• “Decentralization in the Southern Mediterranean: A Case Study of Egypt,” presented at The Third Mediterranean Social and Political Research Meeting, Florence, March 20^th–24^th2002. (Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies). 
• “Terrorism: An International Challenge,” presented at the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ 2002 Global Youth Exchange Program, 3^rd-16^thMarch, Tokyo, Hiroshima, and Kyoto.
• “Think Tanks in Foreign Policy Affairs: A Case Study of Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs” & “The Legislative Role of Private Think Tanks: The Model of IAPAC in The United Sates,” two papers presented at the Workshop on Parliamentary Think Tanks: Vision & Mission, December 22^nd-24^th, 2001, Cairo.
• “Liberalism: An Examination of Basics,” presented at The International Leadership Academy, Friedrich Naumann Stiftung, Gummersbach, Germany, February 18^th- March 2^nd, 2001.  

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