Saira Mohamed is the Agnes Roddy Robb Chair in Jurisprudence, Ethics, and Social Responsibility and Professor of Law at the UC Berkeley School of Law. She teaches and writes in the areas of international law, criminal law, and human rights. Her current project examines how international and domestic law regulate governments' treatment of their military personnel. Her book What a State Owes Its Soldiers is forthcoming from Harvard University Press. Mohamed's articles have appeared in top journals, including the Yale Law Journal, Columbia Law Review, and California Law Review. She has received numerous prizes for her scholarship, including the award for the best paper by a junior scholar from the Association of American Law Schools Section on Criminal Justice and the National Institute of Military Justice's Kevin J. Barry Award for the best article in military law. In 2023 Mohamed was awarded the Berlin Prize for her research on government obligations to the military. Mohamed is a past Vice President of the American Society of International Law, and she is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, an elected member of the American Law Institute, and an appointed expert for the Moscow Mechanism of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. In 2025, Mohamed received Berkeley Law's Rutter Award for Teaching Distinction. Mohamed previously served as Senior Advisor in the Office of the U.S. Special Envoy for Sudan and as an Attorney-Adviser for human rights and refugees in the State Department's Office of the Legal Adviser. She is a graduate of Columbia Law School, the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia, and Yale University.