Public figure biography

• He was born in Saida in 1937.
• He received his elementary and complementary education at the American Evangelical School in Saida, then he pursued his secondary studies at the International College (IC) in Beirut.
• He obtained the Suffomor Diploma- Arts from the American University in Beirut.

Scientific Diplomas

• Bachelor’s degree in law (Faculty of Law at the Lebanese University) in 1961.
• Diploma in the American law and the compared law from the Colombian University- Leiden in 1963.
• PHD in law from the University of Sorbonne in Paris in 1965 with very good rank.

Activities

• Activist since his secondary studies in the public field where he advocated the student movement in 1961 then he was the first President of the Association of the Law Faculty Students at the Lebanese University and the Secretary of the National Union of Lebnaese Students, as well as he supported the National Liberation Movement and the Palestinian Cause, particularly, recently when the aggression occurred on Gaza.
• As well as the missing persons issues that he represented and the Lebanese Government in Geneva and he still works for them.

Academic Careers

• Professor in the Faculty of Law, Political and Administrative Sciences at the Lebanese University since 1965 where he lectured in the courses of private law, such as the Labor Code and Social Security, Business Law, laws history, Code of Commerce and Civil Law, and he currently supervises the Doctorate theses in the private law courses, the Civil Law, the Business Law and the Labor Code.
• A Lecturer Professor in the Faculty of Business Administration and Economy at the Lebanese University from 1976 till 1981.
• He worked as a Superviser Professor of the examinations in the courses of the Lebanese Law at each of Saint Joseph University and Arab University between 1966 and 1973.
• Vice-President of the International Academic National Committee of the compared law since 2001 for several years.
• A member of the High Council of the Lebanese and International Arbitration since 1998 and for many years.
• Member of the Legal Institution for Surveys, Consultations and Arbitration in 2008.
• Vice-President of the National Authority related to the drawing up of the election law in Lebanon and the electoral reform in 2006-2007.

Current Vocational National Activities

• The President of the Defense Committee of Public Liberties and Human Rights at the Bar of Beirut since 1996 up to date.
• Currently, he supervises the Master and Doctorate theses in the private law and business law in the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences at the Lebanese University and other private Universities Faculties.
• His last discussion of the Doctorate theses that he supervised was titled “Development of the labor contract in the light of the globalization”. A compared study with both French and Egyptian Labor Codes in 2012 for the Professor Rouba El Haidari, the concept development of the employer authority within the framework of the recent technology for the Professor Jamile Abdul Nour Harb in 2015, and the disclosure of private interests in the joint stock companies listed in the Stock Market in 2016.

Previous careers and activities

• A Former Adviser to the Council of Ministries Presidency for the Administrative Reform 1973-1977.
• A member of the Supreme Authority of the Administrative Reform between 1974-1976.
• A Former Legal and Administrative Adviser for each of both Ministries of Finance and Labor for periods and since 1980-1990.
• A Former President of the Disciplinary Council at the Bar of Beirut 1992-1994.
• A Member of the Committee of Unifying and Updating Laws at the Ministry of Justice between 1992-1998.
• A Member of the National Authority for Missing Persons during the war 2000-2003.
• He participated with the Committee of Administration and Justice in the Parliament to draw up the project of the new Penal Procedure Code in 2000.
• He represented Lebanon before the Supreme Commission for Human Rights-United Nations in Geneva in 2001 regarding the missing persons in Lebanon.
• Vice-President of the National Authority for the Electoral Reform in 2006 which was presided over by the Minister Fouad Boutros.

Lectures

• The Democracy and the Labor Code in 1984-A lecture in the Cultural Council of South Lebanon.
• Economical and Social Rights in the Lebanese laws-A lecture in Dar Al Nadwa upon the invitation of the Lebanese Assembly for Human Rights in 1988.
• Human Rights in the balance-A lecture given through the Lebanese Radio 1988.
• The Legal Status of the Woman in the Lebanese Legislation- A lecture given at the Lebanese American University in 1989.
• Visual-Audio Media Freedom-A lecture in the International Conference on the Visual-Audio Media at the Bar of Beirut in 1996.
• The Labor Code between Flexibility and Protection-A BOT seminar supervised by the Bar of Beirut and the International Union of Lawyers in 1997 in Adma Hotel.
• Media and Problems of the Civil Society-A lecture upon the request of the National Council of Media in 1999.
• Judges and Litigants guarantees-A lecture given at Unesco during “Justice Conference and Keeping up with times” drawn up by the Ministry of Justice in 2001.
• The Future of the Labor Code in the Arab Countries in the light of the Globalization in 2002- A lecture given in the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences at the Jesuit University in 2002.
• The Arab Movement for Human Rights (Problems-Prospects).
• Intervention given during the Arab Lawyers Union Conference meeting in Beirut in 2001 in Commodore Hotel.
• Use of the International Law Principles in the context of Human Rights-A lecture given in the Arab Lawyers Union Conference in 2003 in Commodore Hotel.
• The Lebanese Laws in the light of the International Charter for Human Rights-A lecture given in Al Safir Hotel in 2005 in the first Forum for the Legal Adviser Data “Severe censorship into a Social Contract”.

Articles and studies

1. The Legal Status of the Woman in the Lebanese Legislation 1974.
   In the leading specialized magazine which was published by the Faculty of Beirut for Girls and which is currently known as the Lebanese-American University.
2. Observations about the suggestion of law of illegal enrichment-A study submitted to the Committee of Unifying and Updating Laws in the Ministry of Justice in 1997.
3. Maintenance of right of the Secret Intelligence-A study submitted to the Bar of Beirut in 1996.
4. Matters of Labor and Social Security-A study submitted to the Faculty of Law and Political and Administrative Sciences at the Lebanese University in 1997.
5. Legal breaches for closing MTV Station-A study submitted to the Bar of Beirut.
6. Labor Emergencies Code between the reality and the updating- The Justice Magazine in 1999.
7. Independence of the Jurisdiction as a guarantee for the Judge and Litigants- Al Nahar Appendix-Issue 564 in 2000.
8. Arab Labor Codes in the light of the Globalization- The Justice Magazine in 2001.
9. The Public Order and the Labor Code in the light of the Globalization –The Justice 2007-Issue 3-P. 1022.
10. The role of the Jurisdiction to protect the human rights-The Justice 2010-Issue 3-P. 479.
11. The Social Dialogue in Lebanon- Friedrich Ebert Institution.
12. Under composition and printing currently, his author about “the Lebanese Labor Code and Changes in the Social Public Order”.