Mohammed al-Shuwaiter is the Co-founder & Executive Director of Qanun, an Arabic Human Rights Platform. Based in Canada, Mohammed is a Yemeni jurist, with an L.L.M. in International Law from the American University Washington College of Law, Washington DC, where he specialized in international humanitarian law and human rights. In Yemen, Mohammed worked as a legal researcher at the Ministry of Justice, and was a constitutional consultant for the Rapporteur of the Constitutional Drafting Committee. He has published various articles on the judiciary system in Yemen.