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Samer GHAMROUN

Samer GHAMROUN

Associate Professor

Faculty of Law and Political Science – Directeur Collège de droit - Rédacteur en chef Revue juridique - POEJ

+961 (1) 421 000 samer.ghamroun@usj.edu.lb

samer Ghamroun holds a PhD in Sociology of Law from the École Normale Supérieure de Cachan, where he worked on the competition between Islamic courts and civil courts in Lebanon, around child protection and women's rights. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law and Political Science of the Saint Joseph University of Beirut, where he teaches sociology and legal history, political economy and constitutional law, as well as fundamental rights and fair trial theories. His publications touch on the relationship between law, politics and society, on topics ranging from religious legal systems governing family rights, to legal pluralism and the sociology of the state in the Middle East. His research also focuses on the transformations of the legal professions and the relationship between justice and politics in Lebanon, Tunisia and Egypt. Since 2010, Samer has contributed to the effort to create the Legal Agendaa socio-legal activist research center based in Beirut and Tunis. He held several research responsibilities and chaired its Board of Directors between 2014 and 2018, and served until 2020. He is currently in charge of developing the socio-legal research capacity of the Legal Agenda, in order to use the humanities and social sciences to better understand legal and judicial practices and institutions in Arab countries.

Education

Degree University Country Year
PHD Ecole normale supérieure de Cachan France 2016
Master - Sciences Po diploma Institut d'études politiques de Paris France 2008
Master Recherche - Politique et société en Europe - Spécialité : Politiques publiques Institut d'études politiques de Paris France 2008
Bachelor - Political and administrative sciences Saint Joseph University of Beyrouth Lebanon 2007
Bachelor in Law Saint Joseph University of Beyrouth Lebanon 2005

Teaching at USJ

Introduction to legal sociology & anthropology.Constitutional law.Introduction to economic policies.Political economy of Arab societies.Fundamental rights & freedoms.Principles of the fair trial.

University teaching outside USJ

University teaching outside USJ Country Institution Start date End date
Comparative legal sociology : Arab and Western experiences France Institut d'Etudes Politiques - Bordeaux 01/02/2021 31/03/2021
Legal sociology seminar France Université de Montpellier 01/06/2017 30/06/2017
Teaching Assistant, Course : Sociology of the state France Université Paris 8 Vicennes-Saint-Denis 01/09/2010 28/02/2011
Lecturer for the course "Political sociology" France École Supérieure des Agricultures (ESA-Angers). 01/09/2009 31/01/2011
Teaching Assistant "Sociology of collective action and public policy" France Université Paris-Nord (Paris XIII) 01/09/2009 28/02/2010

Professional experience outside USJ

Professional experience Organisation Start date End date
Scientific and research development Legal Agenda 01/09/2021 01/10/2024
Strategic and institutional development Legal Agenda 30/09/2014 30/09/2018
Co-founder and researcher Legal Agenda 01/03/2010 30/09/2014
Consulting-Expertise on socio-legal issues in Lebanon (Juvenile Justice, Independence of the Judiciary, etc.) Diverses organisations et ONG internationales (UNICEF, Banque Mondiale etc.) 01/01/2010 01/10/2024
Writer - Local politics Section L'Orient-Le Jour 01/08/2004 31/07/2006

Areas of expertise

Law, Political Sciences

Research themes

The relations between the judiciary & political systems in Lebanon, Egypt & Tunisia. The independence & the reform of the judiciary. The transformation of the legal & judicial religious systems in family law in Lebanon. The transformation of legal professions in Lebanon & Tunisia. Teaching law in Lebanon : a sociological approach. Administrative reform in Lebanon. Anthropology of the recognition of religious groups by the state in Lebanon.

Publications and communications

2023 “Law the Humanities: Academic Impossibilities, Activist Necessities?”, The World Humanities Report, CHCI.2021 With Myriam Catusse et Jamil Mouawad, « Les sciences politiques au Liban. Enquête sur un milieu savant dispersé », in Myriam Catusse, Candice Raymond, Sari Hanafi (dir.), Un miroir libanais des sciences sociales. Acteurs, pratiques, disciplines, Marseille: Diacritiques Éditions, pp. 135-183.2021 With Baudouin Dupret et al., “Playing by the rules: the search for legal grounds in homosexuality cases -Indonesia, Lebanon, Egypt, Senegal”, in Baudouin Dupret, Julie Colemans, Max Travers (ed.), Legal Rules in Practice. In the Midst of Law’s Life, London: Routledge, pp. 255-282. 2015 « Effets dEtat. Mobilisations et action publique au Liban à lépreuve du pluralisme juridique », Gouvernement et Action Publique, Num. 4, pp. 57-82.2013 « Le droit de la communauté sunnite libanaise saisi par les femmes », in Rochefort, F., Sanna, M.E. (dir). Normes religieuses et genre. Mutations, résistances et reconfiguration (XIXe-XXIe siècle). Paris : Armand Colin, pp. 203-215.

Useful links

https://english.legal-agenda.com/author/author_55/

Awards and distinctions

Prix Emile Tyan