Staff profile

Bayan Al Mahri is a PhD researcher at Durham Law School. Before commencing her PhD, she was a Lecturer in Criminal Law at Sultan Qaboos University (SQU). She began her academic teaching career in 2021 and practised as a lawyer and legal consultant in Oman from 2018 to 2026. Her academic and professional background spans legal research, university teaching, and legal practice.

Research interests

Her research interests lie in criminal law and criminal justice, with a particular focus on sentencing, community sanctions, alternatives to imprisonment, rehabilitation, and penal reform. She is also interested in the relationship between law, social policy, and institutional reform.

Doctoral research and supervision

Her doctoral research examines community sentencing, sentencing reform, and alternatives to imprisonment. Her PhD is supervised by Dr Jessie Blackbourn and Dr Karamvir Chadha.

Education

Bayan holds an LL.M in Criminal Law from Sultan Qaboos University (SQU), graduating top of her cohort with Distinction and First-Class Honours. She also holds an LL.B from the same university.

Selected research and publications

Selected research includes work on community sanctions, judicial discretion in sentencing, social protection and sustainable development, legal education, and the relationship between religiosity and corruption tolerance.

• Religiosity and corruption tolerance in Muslim-majority countries

          Elkamel, H., & Al Mahri, B. (2026). Frontiers in Sociology, 11, 1858920.

• Legal Education as a Tool for Promoting and Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals: Community-Based Sanctions as a Model

  Al Mahri, B. (2026). Proceedings of the 12th Annual International Scientific Conference of the Jordanian Association for Educational Sciences, 558–580. (in Arabic).

• Social Protection in Constitutional Principles and Ways to Operationalize it Towards Sustainable Development Under Oman’s Vision 2040 

  Al Mahri, B. (2025). Journal of Jurisprudential and Legal Studies, (22), 242–269. (in Arabic).

• Enabling the Judicial Monitoring System in the Field of Implementing Community Sentence Towards Achieving Sustainable Development Considering Oman’s Vision 2040 

  Al Mahri, B. (2024). JiL Journal of Human Rights, Year 10, Issue 46, 99–120. (in Arabic).

• The Discretionary Power of the Criminal Judge in Determining the Penalty (Historical Rooting)

  Al Mahri, B. A., & Al Rawahi, S. A. (2022). International Journal of Legal and Comparative Jurisprudence Studies, 3(3), 195–209. (in Arabic).