Attorney at law
Dr Dany M. Samaha
A practising attorney of the Beirut Bar Association who has spent as much of his career in front of law students as in front of judges. He has led a faculty of law and political science as dean, teaches as an associate professor, has taught as a visiting professor in the United Arab Emirates, and directs the centre at the Beirut Bar Association where lawyers entering the profession are trained.
Positions
Practice, faculty, and the bar
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Director, centre for the training of lawyers
Beirut Bar Association. Responsible for the programme through which lawyers entering the profession in Beirut are trained.
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Former dean, faculty of law and political science
Led the faculty and its academic partnerships, including work with human rights organisations on the rule of law and accountability in Lebanon.
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Associate professor, and visiting professor in the UAE
Teaching in law and political science, with a visiting appointment in the United Arab Emirates.
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Board member, mediation and arbitration
Centre for mediation and arbitration, Tripoli Bar Association.
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Managing the firm since 2000
Legal, financial and administrative responsibility for the practice, alongside standing consultancy to international companies and to a university and a hospital over eight years.
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Postgraduate studies, Paris
Université Panthéon-Assas, Paris II, in the late 1990s, followed by the doctorate carried on the firm's letterhead.
Beyond the file
Where the work is discussed
- Panellist at the third edition of the Rule of Law Forum in Beirut.
- Training at the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne on contract termination, disciplinary sanctions and sporting succession.
- Speaking and writing on artificial intelligence in legal practice, and on constitutional culture in Lebanon.
- Legal expert on the Commission Régionale des Experts, with the French Embassy in Lebanon, for five years.