Professor Dr. Osama Ahmed El-Sayed Badr graduated from the Faculty of Law, Tanta University, in 1989, first in his class with a grade of Very Good with Honours. He then obtained a Postgraduate Diploma in Public Law from Tanta in 1991, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Private Law from Cairo University in 1992. In 1999 he was awarded the Doctorate in Law from the Faculty of Law, Tanta University, under joint Egyptian-French supervision.
He rose through every rank of the academic ladder at the Faculty of Law, Tanta University — Teaching Assistant in 1989, then Assistant Lecturer, then Lecturer in 1999, then Associate Professor in 2004, then Professor in 2009 — which he completed by obtaining the rank of Professor for a second time from United Arab Emirates University in 2017. He assumed the deanship of the Faculty of Law, Tanta University, as of 28 March 2024, and is today Emeritus Professor in the Civil Law Department of the Faculty.
His experience extended outside Egypt for close to a decade at United Arab Emirates University, where he served as Legal Consultant to the University for four years, as a member of the College of Law Council, and as Chair of the Student Disciplinary Council for Academic Violations. Alongside this he worked as a certified legal training consultant at the Abu Dhabi Judicial Training and Judicial Sciences Academy, affiliated with the Ministry of Justice, where he prepared the academic material on arbitration and mediation and trained lawyers in it, and delivered more than a thousand training hours to trainee lawyers at the judicial training institutes in Abu Dhabi, Sharjah and Dubai between 2007 and 2023.
His research interests centre on intellectual property and copyright, consumer protection, e-commerce, and civil liability and insurance. He has twelve authored academic titles and more than nineteen peer-reviewed papers in academic journals in Egypt and the Emirates, and he is Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed Rouh Al-Qawanin (The Spirit of Laws) journal issued by the Faculty of Law, Tanta University. He currently supervises doctoral theses on subjects at the frontier of law and technology — from insurance against the risks of artificial intelligence and the contractual liability of the electronic agent, to the harms of robot use in the medical field and the right to be forgotten.
Doctorate in Law under joint Egyptian-French supervision — Faculty of Law, Tanta University.