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    Dr Mohamed Moussa

    Murray Edwards College
    Huntingdon Road
    Cambridge
    CB3 0DF

    Fellow in Law

    Law

    Fellow

    Degrees &  Honours:     

    LLB, LLM, PhD

    Awards & Prizes:    

    • Fulbright Scholarship 
    • Cambridge Trust IsDB Scholarship
    • Harvard Academic Writing Fellowship 
    • Yale Fox Fellowship

    Research Interests:    

    Constitutional Law, Federalism, EU and Comparative Law 

    Biography:    

    Mohamed's research cuts across constitutional theory and comparative constitutional law (UK, EU, US and MENA jurisdictions) with emphasis on questions of sovereignty, federalism, fundamental rights and social conflict. 

    Mohamed holds a PhD from Cambridge and an LLM from Harvard Law School which he earned as a Fulbright Scholar. Prior to his academic career, he held multiple professional posts, including as a judge and legislative reform adviser. He also clerked at the U.S Federal District Court of Massachusetts during his studies in the US. 

    Publications:    

    • Mohamed Moussa, Beyond Incomplete Dichotomies: A Structural Typology of Dual Rights in the EU and the US (2023) German Law Journal, Forthcoming.
    • M. Moussa, ‘The ‘Absent Word’ Canon and Asymmetrical Sovereignty’ " Dec 2022, U.K. Const. L. Blog
    • Mohamed Moussa, ‘On Sovereign Bonds & Marijuana: Comparing Supremacy Limits in the EU and the US’ (2021) (28) Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, 834. 
    • With Ali Mansour, The Supreme Court and the Constitutionalisation of International Human Rights Treaties' (2022) (1) Public Law, 144.