Dr Nisrine Abiad

Role at the Institute

Dr Nisrine Abiad has been managing the project on the Human Rights in International Law and Iran since September 2007. She joined the institute as a research fellow in February 2006. In the framework of this project, she is currently carrying out a comparative study on the impact of Islamic Sharia on the ratification and implementation of international human rights instruments in Muslim states.

Prior to this, Nisrine was a lecturer in Administrative Law at the faculty of Law at the University of Lebanon, as well as a lecturer in Public Institutions at the faculty of Business of the Holy Spirit University in Lebanon. She also gained experience in managing legal projects while working in 2005 and 2006 as the coordinator of a project on Administrative Reform in Lebanon, at the "Jean Monnet Chair" of European Studies at the Université Saint-Joseph and as a coordinator in the Mallat Law office in Beirut.


Education

Nisrine holds a PhD in Administrative Law with distinction from the Université du Panthéon-Assas Paris II where she worked as a researcher for 3 years at the Doctorate school of Public Law (Thesis: 'Le Conseil d'Etat, juge de cassation dans le contentieux de la responsabilité administrative'). She also holds a postgraduate certificate in Internal Public Law from the same university. In addition, Nisrine has studied Law at the Université Saint-Joseph in Beirut from which she graduated with First Class Honours in both of her majors - Private Law and Public Law.

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