Prof. Nasri Antoine DIAB

Lawyer at the Beirut Bar Association (1984) and at the Paris Bar
Professor of Law

• Professor at the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences at Saint-Joseph University, until 2009.

• Visiting Professor at Université René Descartes - Paris V, during the three academic years 2005 to 2008.

Practice Areas:

• Financial & Banking Law.

• ICC Arbitration.

• Medical Law.

• Public International Law.

• Environmental Law.

• Gas & Oil Law.

Education:

• Ph.D. of Law (Private International Law) with honor scholarship from the French Government, and with Highest Honors and Award of the Best Theses : Université de Paris 2, Panthéon-Assas (Paris ).

• Master of Laws : Georgetown University (Washington DC).

• Post-Graduate in Business Administration : Université Libre de Bruxelles - Solvay (Brussels).

• Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies en Droit Privé Général : Saint-Joseph University (Beirut).

• “Licence” in Private Law : Saint-Joseph University (Beirut).

• “Licence” in Public Law : Saint-Joseph University (Beirut).

• Certificate of Private International Law from the Hague Academy of International Law (The Hague).

• Certificate of corporate taxation from HEC Saint-Louis (Brussels).

Current Professional Affiliations:

• Founder member of the pro bono Bureau of Accusation at the Beirut Bar Association for the Defense of the Victims of the Explosion of the Beirut Port of 4 August 2020 

• Member of the Arab Arbitration Group of the ICC.

• Member of the International Arbitration Committee of the ICC – Lebanon.

• Member of the Executive Board of the Centre of Lebanese and International Arbitration at the Beirut Bar Association.

• Member of the Energy Institute - Institute of Petroleum (London).

• Member of the Medical Ethics Committee of hospital Hôtel-Dieu de France (since 2011).

• Member of the Lebanese National Consultative Committee on Ethics (CCNLE) for the science of life and health.

• Review Editor on the Editorial Board of Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Rehabilitation (special section of the review “Frontiers in Psychiatry”).

• Secretary of the Scientific Association for Disseminating Legal Culture in the Arab World. 

Former Professional Affiliations:

• Member of the six-member Commission set up by the Primer Minister to amend the Code of Money and Credit.

• Member of the Commission of Modernization of Laws at the Ministry of Justice.

• Member of the Commission of Reform of the Code of Civil Procedure at the Ministry of Justice.

• Advisor to the Minister of Economy for drafting the Law on Privatization.

• Rapporteur of the Commission of Reform of the Code of Civil Procedure of the Beirut BarAssociation.

• Vice President of the Private Law Section at the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences at Université Saint-Joseph.

• Alternate member of the Disciplinary Council of Université Saint-Joseph.

• Treasurer of the Lebanese National Committee of the International Academy of Comparative Law.

• President of the Scientific Committee of the Beirut Bar Law Review “Al Adl”.

• Member of the Committee for the Coordination with the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (La Haye) of the Beirut Bar Association.

• Member of the Legal Commission of the Association of Banks in Lebanon.

• Member of the Professional Ethics Committee of the Beirut Bar Association.

• Member of the Committee on Arbitration of the Beirut Bar Association.

• Member of the Committee of Tax Laws of the Beirut Bar Association.

• Member of the Legislation Committee of the Beirut Bar Association.

• Correspondent for Lebanon of the Consortium for Applied Research on International Migration at the European University Institute - Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (European Commission - Florence).

• Member of the Scientific Board of the Lebanese Journal of Emergency Medicine.

Legal Publications:

Author of 6 legal books:

• Le tribunal internationalement compétent, LGDJ (Paris), 1993.

• La titrisation des actifs, LGDJ/Bruylant/Delta (Paris, Brussels, Beirut), 2003 (with I. Boustany).

• Le droit fondamental à la Justice, LGDJ/Bruylant/Delta (Paris, Brussels, Beirut), 2005.

• Law and Practice of Civil Procedure (in Arabic), Editions Juridiques Sader (Beirut), 2009.

• Private International Law - 2 volumes (in Arabic), Majd Publishing (Beirut), 2009 (with S. Mansour et A. Ghossoub).

• Ethique et droit de la santé, Editions de l'USJ, 2023.

Legal editor of two books on environmental law (sponsored by UNDP, EU and Lebanon Ministry of Justice):

• Status of the environmental legislation in Lebanon and its enforcement (in Arabic), 2004.

• Reality of the Environment in the Lebanese courts (in Arabic), 2010.

Author of over 110 legal articles published in Paris, Beirut, London and Brussels:

• Paris: Pratique du Commerce International ; Revue Critique de Droit International Privé.

• Brussels : Revue de Droit International et de Droit Comparé; Revue de la Chambre de Commerce Arabe-Belge-Luxembourgeoise.

• Beirut : Bar Law Review « Al Adl » ; Le Commerce du Levant ; Proche-Orient Etudes Juridiques ; Bulletin de l'Association des Banques du Liban ; Travaux et Jours ; Revue Libanaise de l’Arbitrage ; The Lebanese Journal of Emergency Medicine ; Cap Santé (Hospital Hôtel-Dieu de France) ; La Revue Juridique – SADER Lex.

• London: Deutsche Bank Global Securitisation and Structured Finance (2004).

Distinctions:

• Officer of the Order of the Crown (Belgium) - Officier de l'Ordre de la Couronne (Belgique).

• Laureate 2022 of the "Bachir Gemayel Award - President of the Republic of Lebanon".

• Laureate 2021 (collective) of the "Prix Jean-Claude Barral de la Défense des Droits de l'Homme" of the Montpellier Bar Association.