The dissertation is a broad-ranging comparative study of the legislative, judicial and arbitral treatment of multiparty, multi-contract and multi-issue arbitrations; and reflects more generally on the normative and conceptual evolution of international commercial arbitration, seen through the lens of its essentiala: Consent.

Master of Laws (LL.M.), 2002.

Université Paris-1 (Pantheon- Sorbonne):

Diplôme des Etudes Approfondies (D.E.A.) in Private and Comparative Law, 2001.

Maitrise en droit privé, 2000

Licence en droit, 1999.

Faculty of Law, Cairo University:

D.E.S. (Diplôme des Etudes Spéciales) en droit privé, 2000.

LL.B, 1999.


CAREER:

After studying law simultaneously at the Anglo-American and French law departments of Cairo University, Dr. Youssef joined the law faculty (the department of Civil Law). He lectures in private, international and comparative law.

Dr. Youssef advised the International Human Rights Law Institute (IHRLI) of DePaul University at Chicago; and for about two years took part in important human rights projects in the Arab World.

During his graduate studies, Youssef clerked for Professor. Ahmed Sadek Al-Kosheri, Vice-Chairman of the I.C.C. International Court of Arbitration, member of the institut de droit international and senior partner of Kosheri, Rashed and Riad, Cairo, Egypt.

Dr. Youssef was awarded for three consecutive years the prestigious Howard Holtzmann Yale Law Fellowship in International Arbitration (2002-2005); and was recognized for academic excellence by the London Forum for International Economic Law & Development for a scholarly work on the economic development of Egypt in memory of the late Ibrahim Shihata in 2004.

Dr. Youssef took part in a World Bank Arbitration initiated against a Middle Eastern State; and provided independent/expert legal opinions in international arbitration proceedings on specific questions of Civil and Commercial Law of Arab States. He is currently involved in a high profile oil concession dispute.

Dr. Youssef is member of the National Law Commission (NLC) of Egypt to modernize commercial and economic laws. He is also member of the working group of the NLC on the reform of the Egyptian Arbitration Law.

Dr. Youssef is member of the board of reporters of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA) and is its reporter for Egypt.



SCHOLARSHIP:

Dr. Youssef’s areas of expertise include: International commercial arbitration, civil and commercial law, international law.
Among his graduate memoires and papers:

Exchanges rate risks in international contracts and the legal framework of exchange rate options and swaps.

The transplantation of trusts, “fiducie” and temporary transfers of property to Civil Law Systems, with Special Emphasis on SPVs.

One-person Companies: Comparative Study of the United States, the EU and Egypt.

Dr. Youssef’s writings on international commercial arbitration emphasize state-of-the-art normativity and practical developments; and follow the sweeping changes which the field is undergoing. He wrote, inter alia, on:

The treatment of complex questions of jurisdiction in multiparty or multi-contract international commercial arbitrations and more generally issues of privity and questions of so-called “extension” of the arbitration agreement;

Questions of applicable law to substance as well as to the arbitration agreement;

Legislative and judicial policies for the development of international commercial arbitration.



MEMBERSHIPS:

The Egyptian Bar Association.

The International Bar Association (IBA).

The Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA).

The Egyptian Arbitration Forum.



LANGUAGES:

Dr. Youssef is fluent in French and English, besides his Arabic mother tongue.



CONTACT INFORMATION:

Dr. Karim Youssef.

Email:        karim.youssef@crcica.org.eg
                Karim.y.youssef@gmail.com
                Karim.youssef@aya.yale.edu









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