Biography
Ghada Karam, PhD, was appointed Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs in 2023, after serving as an Associate Provost for Strategy and Policy from 2021 to 2023. She has been a member of USEK Academic & Research Council since 2016, and currently chairs USEK Committee of Peers and USEK accreditation Committee – NECHE/Standard One and Standard Six. She actively participated in the USEK Strategic Planning task force 2023/2028.
Prior to joining the Provost Office, she acted at the School of Law and Political Sciences as the Associate Dean from 2016 to 2023 and the interim Dean from January 2021 to February 2023. She continues to co-direct several joint Master programs offered in collaboration with international partners namely the Double Master 2 in « Business Law » with Poitiers University (France), the Double Master 2 in « International Contracts » with Montpellier I University (France) and founding co-director of the Double Master program (LL.M) in International & Comparative Law with McKinney School of Law (Indiana University, Indianapolis, USA). She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in international private law, international contracts Law, comparative contracts law, and introduction to law. Her research focuses on transnational litigation, conflict of laws, international law, international contract law, and the role of domestic law and domestic courts in molding the international legal spectrum.
She was awarded a PhD in Law from Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II), France, in 2006, following her DEA in (master’s in law) in International Private Law and International Commercial Law, from Panthéon-Assas university (Paris II) as well in 1997. She obtained an LLM in General Studies from New York University School of Law, New York, in 2004. After joining USEK in 2011, she pursued a post-graduate online certificate on teaching and learning from Norwich University (USA), and an online course design certificate offered by DEE FINK and Associates. In January 2020, she was certified as a Mediator by the Center of Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR),London, UK.
Education
Ph.D. in Law, Panthéon-Assas University (Paris II), France, 2006.
LLM. General Studies, New York University School of Law, New York, USA, 2004.
DEA in (Master in Law) in International Private Law and International Commercial Law, Panthéon-Assas university (Paris II), France, 1997.
BA in Law, Saint-Joseph University (USJ), Beirut, Lebanon, 2007
