People Biography

Dr. Barry Solaiman is the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Associate Professor at HBKU College of Law, whose research and teaching focus on Healthcare Law, Constitutional Law, and the regulation of emerging technologies. He holds a PhD in Law from the University of Cambridge and is a Fellow of Harvard Medical School’s Center for Bioethics. He is also a Governor of the World Association for Medical Law (WAML).

A leading scholar on law and technology, Dr. Solaiman’s work examines artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, and the metaverse. He is co-editor of the Research Handbook on Health, AI and the Law, a landmark resource in the field. His scholarship has appeared in leading journals such as the Medical Law Review, npj Digital Medicine, the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, and the American Journal of Law and Medicine. He has keynoted conferences worldwide and has served as Editor-in-Chief of both the Cambridge International Law Journal and Medicine and Law.

At HBKU, Dr. Solaiman led a multidisciplinary grant that developed Qatar’s first national guidelines for the use of AI in healthcare research. He also serves as Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics in Clinical Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine–Qatar, where he co-directs the accredited Intersection of Law & Medicine Series.