Dr. Munira Al-Amer has been the vice dean of the College of Law at King Faisal University (KFU) in Al-Ahsa since January.
Al-Amer received a bachelor’s degree in law from the Jeddah-based King Abdul Aziz University (KAU) in 2008. In 2012, she entered the University of Strasbourg, France, where she was granted a master’s degree in fundamental private law two years later.
In 2019, she obtained a Ph.D. in private law from the same university, where she also received a university diploma in artificial intelligence and intellectual property from the university’s Center for International Intellectual Property Studies.
In 2009, Al-Amer became a faculty member at the KFU’s College of Law, where she is now an assistant professor.
Al-Amer, who became the deputy chairperson of the KFU’s Legal Studies and Consultations Center in 2020, speaks Arabic, English and French, and she is doing her best to improve in a fourth language she has begun to learn — Spanish.
From September to October 2017, she was a legal researcher at the Mansour Al-Dhafeeri law firm in Riyadh, where she studied judicial decisions and verdicts on personal status cases and compiling information about the Saudi family law system.
For nearly the same period, she provided the same service to the Tunisia-based Malik Badri law firm. There, she conducted research and compiled information on family law, created case studies for academic use and participated in the legal activities within the legal firm.
From October 2019 to January 2020, she also provided similar services to Peking University, Beijing, China. She studied in detail all aspects of Chinese family law, as well as working with Chinese lawyers and law professors to comprehend legal issues properly.
