Ahmed Rashwan

Ahmed Rashwan is a judge at the North Cairo Court of First Instance, where he sits in the civil circuits. Before his appointment to the bench, he spent more than six years as a public prosecutor, serving in several district offices in Cairo and in the Supreme Financial Crimes Prosecution at the Office of the Prosecutor General.

Rashwan is a Research Visitor at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights at the University of Oxford for Michaelmas Term 2026 and Hilary Term 2027. His project examines the rule under which Egyptian courts apply Islamic law, by default, to divorce between Christians of different denominations, and the questions of judicial interpretation, constitutional rights, and non-discrimination on grounds of religion it raises.

His interests span human rights law, constitutional law and theory, law and religion, Middle Eastern legal history, jurisprudence, and criminal law. Since 2021, he has co-authored the Egypt report in the Global Review of Constitutional Law, an annual survey of constitutional developments worldwide published by the Constitutional Studies Program at the University of Texas at Austin. Earlier in his career, he was a teaching assistant in the Faculty of Law at the British University in Egypt and a researcher at the Cairo International Center for Conflict Resolution, Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding (CCCPA), where he focused on post-conflict constitution-building in Africa and on international legal issues in peacekeeping operations.

Rashwan holds an LLM from the University of Cambridge, where he was a Chevening Scholar and a Cambridge Trust Scholar. He also holds an LLB from Ain Shams University's Program of Legal Studies in the English Language and postgraduate diplomas in public law and in public international law from the same university. He is completing an MA in Philosophy at the American University in Cairo (AUC) on an Egyptian Graduate Fellowship. As part of the degree, and with the support of an AUC Graduate Grant, he spent the autumn 2025 semester as an exchange student at Sciences Po Law School, where he focused on constitutional theory, legal reasoning, and legal philosophy. A native Arabic speaker, he is fluent in English and has intermediate French.