Professional history

Career Path

Academic and leadership positions — most recent first

Professor Dr. Osama Ahmed Badr at work
At the desk

From Teaching Assistant in the Private Law Department in 1989 to Dean of the Faculty of Law in 2024 — thirty-five years at the same institution, interrupted by a secondment to United Arab Emirates University.

  • Present

    Emeritus Professor — Civil Law Department

    Faculty of Law — Tanta University
  • 28 March 2024 — former

    Dean of the Faculty of Law

    Tanta University

    Alongside the deanship he chaired the councils of the departments of Civil Law, Private International Law, Civil Procedure, and Philosophy and History of Law.

  • 28 March 2024 — Present

    Editor-in-Chief of Rouh Al-Qawanin Journal

    Faculty of Law — Tanta University

    A peer-reviewed academic journal issued by the Faculty of Law, Tanta University.

  • 2022 — 2025

    Member of the Private Law Referees Committee — Civil, Commercial and Civil Procedure

    Supreme Council of Universities — Scientific Committee, Fourteenth Session

    By decision of the Supreme Council of Universities at its session held on 31 July 2024.

  • 23 March 2025 — to date

    Acting Vice-Dean for Education and Student Affairs

    Faculty of Law — Tanta University
  • 23 March 2025 — to date

    Acting Vice-Dean for Postgraduate Studies

    Faculty of Law — Tanta University
  • August 2024

    Acting Vice-Dean for Community Service and Environmental Development Affairs

    Faculty of Law — Tanta University
  • 6 September 2023 — 27 March 2024

    Acting Head of the Civil Law Department

    Faculty of Law — Tanta University
  • 2024

    Member of the Faculty Members Disciplinary Council

    Tanta University
  • 2022

    Chair of the Student Disciplinary Council for Academic Violations

    United Arab Emirates University

    By decision of the Vice-Chancellor of United Arab Emirates University, during the period of secondment.

  • Four years — period of secondment

    Legal Consultant to the University

    United Arab Emirates University

    Drafting legal memoranda, statements of claim and appeal memoranda; attending expertise sessions in numerous cases inside and outside the United Arab Emirates; and reviewing the contractual wording of the contracts the University concludes with external parties.

  • Period of secondment

    Member of the College of Law Council

    United Arab Emirates University
  • Ongoing

    Certified Legal Training Consultant

    Abu Dhabi Judicial Training and Judicial Sciences Academy — affiliated with the Ministry of Justice

    Preparing the academic material on arbitration and mediation within the scope of resolving legal matters by amicable means, and training lawyers in it.

  • 29 September 2009 — to date

    Professor — Civil Law Department

    Faculty of Law — Tanta University
  • 13 October 2004 — for three years

    Acting Head of the Civil Law Department

    Faculty of Law — Tanta University
  • 29 September 2004

    Associate Professor — Civil Law Department

    Faculty of Law — Tanta University
  • 27 April 1999

    Lecturer — Private Law Department

    Faculty of Law — Tanta University
  • 27 September 1992

    Assistant Lecturer — Private Law Department

    Faculty of Law — Tanta University
  • 1992

    Assistant Public Prosecutor

    Public Prosecution — Arab Republic of Egypt
  • 2 October 1989

    Teaching Assistant — Private Law Department

    Faculty of Law — Tanta University
Professor Dr. Osama Ahmed Badr in academic regalia at an early academic occasion
From the archive

An early academic occasion — from the beginning of the path at the Faculty of Law, Tanta University.