Dr Nisrine Abiad

Role at the Institute

Dr Nisrine Abiad is currently managing the project on Criminal Law and the Rights of the Child in Iran and other Muslim States started in October 2008. She joined the institute in February 2007 as research fellow in the project on Human Rights in International Law and Iran. In Augsut 2007, she was promoted to project manager and carried out with the assistance of the Iran team the implementation of the different research and events components of the project till end of September 2008. In the framework of this project, she undertook 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.

Recent Publications

  • Sharia, Muslim States and International Human Rights Treaty Obligations: A comparative study (London: BIICL, 2008)
  • Lebanese Institutions: between heresies and constitutional theories', Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Volume 12

Recent Presentations

  • 'Trends and Reforms of Islamic Family Law', London, June 2007
  • 'The impact of Sharia on the Ratification and Implementation of International Human Rigths Conventions' London, June 2008
  • 'Human Rights Law and Sharia: CEDAW as a case study', Tunis, August 2008


Education

Nisrine holds a PhD in Administrative Law with distinction from the Université du Panthéon-Assas Paris II where she worked as associate researcher (Allocataire de Recherche) 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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