Staff profile

About Ma'in

Ma’in Khleef Alkhawaldeh is a PhD candidate in Law at Durham University. His research focuses on artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, governance, and sustainability within legal and regulatory frameworks.

He holds an LLM (with Distinction) from Lancaster University (2025), where his dissertation, which developed a novel framework for allocating liability arising from the use of AI systems in the healthcare sector, was highly commended by the examiners and required no amendments.

Ma’in earned his LLB (with First Class Honours) from the University of Jordan (2024), ranking among the top of his cohort. His undergraduate dissertation in Tort Law received a perfect GPA of 4.0 out of 4.0 without any revisions. He also achieved an outstanding 98.9% in the General Secondary Education Certificate Examination (Tawjihi – Literary Stream).

He has authored research papers on artificial intelligence, corporate sustainability, international commercial litigation, and tort law, and is the author of a book on the legal implications of AI in healthcare, with a focus on liability.

Ma’in is a member of the Young ICCA (International Council for Commercial Arbitration) and has gained professional experience with Ali Sharif Zu’bi Advocates & Legal Consultants, a leading Jordanian law firm ranked Band 1 by Chambers and Partners and Tier 1 by The Legal 500. He also has two years of volunteer teaching experience in law courses for Business School students.