Alaeldin Maghaireh
Chair of the Law Department
Department of Law
Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University
Saudi Arabia
Biography
Dr. Alaeldin Maghaireh is an Assistant Professor and the Chairman of the Law Department. Before joining PMU Dr. Maghaireh was a lecturer for eight years in Law at the Centre for Transnational Crime Prevention (CTCP) Australia. He taught Criminal Law and Process, Comparative Criminal Law, Cybercrime and Understanding Transnational Organized Crime. He supervised major research projects for Law Faculty/ Wollongong University and coordinated Master of Transnational Crime Prevention Tutorial Teaching Program (2010-2012). He is an expert in cyber criminology and Islamic Criminal Law with considerable experience in the First Instance Court in Jordan (1996-1998). His doctoral research, completed in 2009 at Wollongong University/Australia, was on Cybercrime Investigation: A Comparative Analysis of Search for and Seizure of Digital Evidence.
Research Interest
Cyber criminology, Criminal Law and Process, Islamic Criminal Law/ Shariah Law/Common and Civil Law and Organized Crime (Comparative Law), Money laundering, Drug and human trafficking and migrant smuggling.
Publications
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Fatwa Chaos Ignites Cyber vandalism: Does Islamic Criminal Law Prohibit Cyber vandalism?’ in K. Jaishankar (ed), ‘Cyber Criminology: Exploring Internet Crimes and Criminal Behavior’ (Published by CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group, USA (2011).
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Shariah Law, Cyber-Sectarian Conflict and Cybercrime: How Can Islamic Criminal Law Respond to Cybercrime? (2008) 2 International Journal of Cyber Criminology.
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Combating Cyberterrorism: The Response from Australia and New Zealand. International Terrorism - New Zealand Perspectives (2005) 81-92.Â
