Editorial team

  • Editor-in-Chief

  • Professor Sonia Mallek, Professor of Civil Law, College of Law, Qatar University

    Email: selleuch@qu.edu.qa

    ORCID: 0000-0003-4019-3620

    Bio: Dr. Sonia Mallek, Professor of Civil Law, received her PhD in Private Law and Criminology from El-Manar University in Tunis. Dr. Sonia Mallek attended Tunisian universities and was appointed as a visiting professor at the University of Aix-en-Provence in France in 2012. She also held the position of Head of Private Law Department at the Faculty of Legal, Political and Social Sciences in Tunis. She participated in many local and international conferences, and joined the College of Law, Qatar University in 2014. She wrote many research papers in Arabic and French and also participated, chaired many committees inside and outside the college. She supervised several masters and doctoral theses and studied several courses related to comparative civil law, combating corruption in the business field, and encouraging investment and professional responsibility. Prof. Sonia headed a Qatar National Research Fund Grant Working Group from 2019 to 2021. She has numerous publications in international journals on various topics in the field of civil responsibility, family law, private life and legislative drafting.

  • Editorial Committee

    1. Professor Sami Hamdan al Rawashdeh, College of Law, Qatar University.

      Email: samirawashdeh@qu.edu.qa</a

      ORCID: 0000-0002-20176826

      SCOPUS author ID: 0000-0002-20176826

      Bio: Dr. Sami al Rawashdeh graduated from Mu’tah University (Jordan) with a First Honors Degree in law in 1996. Having received his LLM degree at the Law School, University of Jordan in February 1999, he worked as a full-time lecturer in Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure for one year. He obtained his PhD in Criminal Law in March 2004 from School of Law/University of Aberdeen in the United Kingdom. In February 2004, he joined the Faculty of Law, University of Jordan. He is a member of the Jordanian Bar Association since 2007. Dr. Sami was appointed as a legal expert in the Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, Ministry of Justice, the State of Qatar for one year in 27/2/2012. In spring 2013, he joined the College of Law, Qatar University as an associate professor of criminal law where he teaches criminal law courses for both graduate and undergraduate students. In April 2018, he was promoted to the rank of professor at the College of Law, Qatar University. His main research area is Criminal Law, Human Rights, International Criminal Law, and Criminal Procedure Law. He has published peer reviewed articles on criminal law and criminal procedure law in both languages: Arabic and English, and a co-authored two books on the Qatari Penal Code: “Crimes against Persons,” and “Qatari Penal Code: Crimes against Property.”

    2. Professor Ahmed El Mohtadybellah, College of Law, Qatar University ✉

    3. Prof. Dr. Faten Hawa is a Professor of Commercial Law at Qatar University, College of Law

    4. Prof. Mohamed Kamel Charfeddine, professor on private law, college of Law, Al Manar University, Tunisia.

    5. Prof. Mustapha Mekki, professor on private law, University of Paris 13, co-director of IRDA, visiting university professor. France

    6. Dr. Abbas Poorhashemi, president of the Canadian Institute For International Law Expertise (CIFILE), Canada.

    7. Prof. Peter Malanczuk, member of the International Commercial Expert Committee of the Supreme People's Court of China, former dean and chair professor, Faculty of Law, the University of Hong Kong (HKU)

  • Advisory Board

    1. Dr. Abdellah al- Mislimani, Lawyer at the Court of Cassation (Qatar) and International Law Adviser

    2. Dr. Sheikh Thani Bin Ali Al Thani, lawyer at the Court of Cassation (Qatar) and a representative of the State of Qatar in the Arbitration Court of the International Chamber of Commerce.

    3. Prof. Dominique d'Ambra, University professor, Director of the Center for Fundamental Private Law and director of the doctoral school, Strasbourg France.

    4. Prof. Muhammad Al-Fiali, Professor of Public Law, college of Law, Kuwait University.

    5. Prof. Douglas W. Arner Professor in Law, Hong Kong University.