Staff profile

Biography

Dr Ahmed Almutawa is a police officer and a member of the academic staff at the Royal Academy of Police, Kingdom of Bahrain. He is currently an Honorary Fellow at Durham Law school, Durham University. In 2020 he was awarded his PhD from the University of Leeds for a thesis that examined the legitimacy of counterterrorist financing in Bahrain. Since then, he was worked on developing a research interest in International Human Rights Law.

He has participated in several conferences and delivered seminars in Bahrain, the UK and overseas on the area of human rights and counter terrorism. His work has been published in leading journals in the field, such as the Human Rights Law Review, Journal of Human Rights Practice, Public Law, and the European Human Rights Law Review amongst others. In 2022, along with his co-author Hajer Almanea, he was awarded the Karman Arif Annual award for 'best article of the year' by the editors of the Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. The paper, which was published in the 2022 Yearbook (volume6), examines the noncompliance of national legislation with the Arab Charter of Human Rights.

 

Current Research

His current research is focused on the regional protection of human rights. With Professor Konstantinos Magliveras, he is co-editing a book for Asser Press (Springer) that uses legitimacy as the theme for a comparative analysis of the institutional aspects of regional human rights systems. He is also working on a proposal for a book that will consider the role and future of regional human rights protection. 

 

Research interrests

. Counterterrorism Laws

. Human Rights Law 

. International Law 

. Public Law 

Chapter in book

• Almutawa, A., & Almanea, H. (2022). Analyses of Non-compliance to Legislation by Signatories to the Arab Charter of Human Rights: A Framework for National Observance and Regional Enforcement. In J. Rehman, A. Shahid, & S. Foster (Eds.), The Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (237-269). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004520806_013
• Almutawa, A., & Aldweri, K. M. (2020). Bahrain’s Pioneering Role in the Protection of the Rights of Temporary Workers in the Gulf Region. In J. Rehman, A. Shahid, & S. Foster (Eds.), The Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (349-369). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004431768_016
• Almutawa, A. (2020). The Qatar crisis, legitimacy, and the use of sanctions against terrorist financing. In K. Benson, C. King, & C. Walker (Eds.), Assets, Crimes and the State: Innovation in 21st Century Legal Responses (244-256). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429398834-20

Journal Article

• Almutawa, A., & Almajed, B. (2023). The prohibition of forced or compulsory labour and conditional welfare under the United Kingdom's Universal Credit Scheme. Legal Studies, 43(4), 734-756. https://doi.org/10.1017/lst.2023.11
• Almutawa, A., & Walker, C. (2022). Citizenship as a Privilege and the Weakness of International Law: The Consequences for Citizenship Deprivation in Bahrain and the UK. Journal of Human Rights Practice, 14(3), 1038-1059. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhuman/huac054
• Almutawa, A. (2022). Towards the Human Right to Climatic Non-Interference. Asia-Pacific Journal on Human Rights and the Law, 23(2), 206-244. https://doi.org/10.1163/15718158-23020002
• Almutawa, A. (2021). The Failure of the Arab Court of Human Rights and the Conflicting Logics of Legitimacy, Sovereignty, Orientalism and Cultural Relativism. Netherlands International Law Review, 68(3), 479-500. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40802-021-00202-w
• Almutawa, A., & Magliveras, K. (2021). Enforcing women’s rights under the Arab Charter on human rights 2004. The International Journal of Human Rights, 25(8), 1258-1284. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2020.1822334
• Almutawa, A. (2021). The Arab Court of Human Rights and the Enforcement of the Arab Charter on Human Rights. Human Rights Law Review, 21(3), 506-532. https://doi.org/10.1093/hrlr/ngab008
• Almutawa, A., & Walker, C. (2021). Proscription by Proxy: The Banning of Foreign Groups. Public Law,
• Almutawa, A. (2020). Designing the Organisational Structure of the UN Cyber Peacekeeping Team. Journal of Conflict & Security Law, 25(1), 117-147. https://doi.org/10.1093/jcsl/krz024
• Almutawa, A., & Walker, C. (2020). Elgizouli v Secretary of State for the Home Department: mutual legal assistance and the death penalty (Case Comment). European Human Rights Law Review, 2020(5), 533-541
• Almutawa, A. (2018). Terrorism measures in Bahrain: proportionality and the interplay between security, civil liberties and political stability. The International Journal of Human Rights, 22(8), 949-965. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2018.1492917

Other (Print)

• Almutawa, A. (2023). Arab Court of Human Rights. [Encyclopedia Entry]