Dr Ahmed Abdelgawad is an Assistant Professor of Public Law and Comparative Jurisprudence at the University of Dubai, College of Law (a recognised Teaching Centre of the University of London). A Fulbright Scholar, he holds an LL.M. in Comparative Constitutional Law and Human Rights from the University of Texas at Austin School of Law, where he trained under Professors Richard Albert, Sanford Levinson, H.W. Perry, William Forbath, and Lawrence Sager, and earned the Dean’s Achievement Award for the course on Constitutional Amendments in the United States and Around the Globe. He is a former Fellow of the ICLRS Young Scholars Fellowship, jointly hosted by the University of Oxford and Brigham Young University, and a former Research Fellow at the UT Austin Institute of Transnational Law.

Across nearly a decade in legal academia in Egypt, Ahmed made foundational contributions to the development of clinical legal education—designing experiential learning programmes and legal practice clinics modelled on the US concept of law school clinics as credit-bearing modules, bringing together senior judges, law firm partners, and international collaborators. He also served as Assistant Director and Head of Research at a leading academic centre dedicated to law and emerging technologies, where he organised high-level policy roundtables, authored reports on blockchain regulation and the digital economy, and served as Managing Editor of the Journal of Law and Emerging Technologies.

He has held research positions at the Aspen Institute’s Inclusive America Project in Washington, D.C., focusing on constitutional rights and religious freedom in a comparative context. He has also served as a legal consultant to top-tier law firms and academic institutes, advising on policy, governance, and regulatory matters. His scholarly work has appeared in the UCLA Journal of Islamic and Near Eastern Law, the Michigan State International Law Review, The Global Review of Constitutional Law, and the Journal of Law and Emerging Technologies. His current research spans constitutional theory in the Arab world, law and religion, judicial behaviour, empirical constitutional studies, and AI governance—including AI’s emerging role in legal writing and judicial reasoning.

Based in Dubai and rooted in Egypt, he maintains an extensive professional network across the judiciary, government, civil society, and the legal profession throughout the MENA region and the Gulf.