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Diploma of Financial and Administrative Sciences from the above-mentioned faculty on October, 1958.
Master of Law (L.L.M.) from the School of Law University of California, Berkeley on June 1963.
Dr. of Science of Law (S.J.D.) from the School of Law, Southern Methodist University, Texas, USA, 1967.
Fellowships, Awards, Prizes and Honours
The prize of the President of the Republic of Egypt in 1953 as a reward for the outstanding performance in the third year in Law School.
The reward of the A.R.E.U., U.S.A. Educational Exchange Commission in 1962 & 1963.
The Walter Perry Johnson Graduate Research Fellowship in Law in 1962 from the School of Law, University of California (Berkeley).
The A.R.E. Ministry of Justice Grant from 1962 to 1965.
The American Jurisprudence Prize for Excellence in the International Organizations Course in 1964 by the joint publishers of the annotated reports system.
Selected to be registered in WHO's WHO Historical Society 2001 for his professional and academic achievements.
SMU Representative on the London Forum's World of Overseers.
Present Occupations
Director, Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration.
Constitutional Advisor to the People's Assembly (Parliament).
Professor of Law, Faculty of Law (English Section), Cairo University.
Previous Occupations & Experience
Senior Vice President of the Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt (1984- 1998).
Member of the Egyptian Judiciary since October 1954 up to 1976 , then Justice of the Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt.
Legal Advisor at the Presidency of the Republic (1965) - Part Time.
Member in several government committees established for drafting legislative acts (1965-1989).
Professor of Constitutional Law and Public Finance in the Faculty of Law, Algeria University (1969-1973).
Visiting Professor of Law in Cairo University, Ain Shams University, Alexandria University and Academy of Police (1974-1984).
Visiting Scholar, Harvard School of Law, U.S.A. September, 1979.
Visiting Professor of Business Law in the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia (1979-1984).
Membership of International Organizations
Elected Vice-President of the International Federation of Commercial Arbitration Institutions (IFCAI) comprising eighty five Arbitral Institutions (Elected in May 1986; re-elected several times up till now).
Elected since 1997, re-elected in June 2001 as Chairman of the IFCAI International Arbitration Institutions Section composing 83 international arbitral institutions (inter alia the American arbitration Association AAA, the International Chamber of Commerce ICC, and London Court of International Arbitration LCIA, and the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment (ICSID), WB, Washington).
Elected Secretary General of the Union of the Arab Arbitration Centers, November 1997.
Member of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Consulting Arbitration Committee (Geneva).
Elected Member of the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Council as of 1 September 1997.
Elected Vice President of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA).
Elected Vice-President of the Egyptian Branch of the International Law Association-headquarters, London.
Elected Head of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators / Cairo Branch as of 5 February 1999.
Member of the American Association of International Law.
Elected Member of the Board of the Egyptian Association of International Law.
Member of the International Advisory Board of the St. Mary's University School of Law Centre for Conciliation and Arbitration St. Paul, Texas, U.S.A.
Fellow of the London Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
Member of the Board of Trustees of the Global Research Centre.
Member of the Institutional Capacity Working Group (ICWG), WB.
Member of the Board of the Austrian-Egyptian Chamber of Commerce.
Member of the Advisory Board of the ABA/UNDP International Legal Resource Centre.
Elected Member of the Board of Trustees of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators for the Middle East / Indian Sub-Continent Region.
Member of the Advisory Board Committee of the American Bar Association (ABA) and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) International Legal Resource Centre (ILRC).
Enrollment in the Arbitral Panels
Registered on the List of Arbitrators of Berlin Court of Arbitration.
Registered on the Dispute Settlement Panels of the World Trade Organization (WTO).
Registered on the List of the China International Economic & Trade Arbitration Commission.
Registered on the List of the International Arbitral Centre of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber.
Registered on the List of Arbitrators of the Court of International Commercial Arbitration Attached to the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Romania.
Registered on the Panel of Arbitrators of the Japan Commercial Arbitration Association.
Publications and Researches
The Development of National Expenditures in Egypt , Cairo, Egypt, 1958 (Arabic).
Federalism as a Democratic solution for the Arab World, Misr Bookshop Cairo, 1967 (English).
Property Law in Algeria, Faculty of Law, Algeria University, 1969 (Arabic).
Islamic Law, Faculty of Law, Algeria University, 1970 (Arabic).
Public Finance in Algeria, Faculty of Law, Algeria University, 1971 (Arabic).
Constitutional Law and Algerian Constitutional System, Faculty of Law, Algeria University, 1972 (Arabic).
The Development of Algerian Budget, Faculty of Law, Algeria University, 1973 (Arabic).
The Federal Power to Tax State Owned Business in the United States, Review of the Egyptian International Law Association, 1973 (English).
The United Nations Reaches a Dead Lock in Namibia, Review of the Egyptian International Law Association, 1975 (English).
An Outline of the Judicial Review on the Constitutionality of Legislation in Egypt, 1979 (English).
Business Law, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, 1981 (English).
Principles of Law for Businessmen in Saudi Arabia, Tehama, Gedda, 1982 (Arabic).
Privileges and Immunities of Parliament Members, Judiciary Gazette, 1982 (Arabic).
A Comparative Study on the Judicial Review of the Constitutionality of legislation. The Egyptian Experience and its contribution, 1993 (Arabic).
Arbitration Under the Auspices of the Cairo Regional Centre for Commercial Arbitration (An AALCC Centre), Journal of International Arbitration U.S.A., 1985 (English).
Arbitration Under the Auspices of the Cairo Regional Centre for Commercial Arbitration, International Tax & Business Lawyer U.S.A., 1986 (English).
Reflections on the New Egyptian Law on Arbitration, Arbitration Journal LCIA, London, 1995, Vol.11, No.1 (English).
The Role of Arbitration in the Economic Development, presented to the Francophone Researches Conference, Cairo, June 1995 (French).
The Role of Arbitration in the Economic Development, a highlight on the Egyptian Experience, presented to the Francophone Ministers of Justice (Francophone Conference, Cairo, October-November, 1995 (French).
A Paper on "Libral Trends in Islamic Law (Sharia) on Peaceful Settlement of Disputes" presented to a Seminar on "The Practice of International Arbitration", London, England, July 1999 (English).
A Paper on " Quo Vadis ICSID Arbitration; An Evaluation of the Effects of the Unilateral Arbitral Commitment of States" presented to the IFCAI Biennial Dispute Resolution Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2001 (English).
A Paper on Arbitration before the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID)" presented to the second international conference on Settlement of Electronic Commerce disputes, January 2002 (Arabic).
An Analytical Study Evaluating the Awards of the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes ICSID".
In addition to the above, the following papers were presented to international conferences:
- Settlement of Commercial Disputes (A comparative study)
- Settlement of Construction Disputes
- Settlement of Petroleum and Gas Disputes
- Settlement of Investment Disputes
- Settlement of Disputes According to Islamic Shari'a
- A Comparative Study of the rules of international Arbitration Institutions (The International Chamber of Commerce "ICC", London Court of International Arbitration "LCIA", American Arbitration Association "AAA", International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes "ICSID")
Several papers were also submitted to many international conferences mostly in the field of arbitration, and alternative dispute resolution.
Experience in International Commercial Arbitration and Conciliation
Participated in many international commercial arbitration cases (Ad-hoc and institutional), several of them as Chairman. Settled several international cases as sole conciliator.
Attended over one hundred international conferences and meetings organized by the UN Agencies as well as other international institutions, organizations and international entities in the fields of international law, international commercial law, international commercial arbitration, maritime arbitration and alternative dispute resolution.
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