Wassim HAJJAR (EL)

École supérieure d'ingénieurs de Beyrouth – Chargé de cours

+961 (1) 421 000 wassim.hajjar1@usj.edu.lb

Enseignant Profile

- Senior Lebanese Judge.- Doctor (PhD) in law from the University of Montpellier (France) specialization private law- Legal informatics cyberlaw.- Holds a Bachelor of computer and communication engineering (with distinction) from AUB (American University of Beirut).- Holds a Degree and a Master in Law from the Lebanese University.- Has been working in the General directorate of the Lebanese Ministry of Justice, in addition to my judicial work in the courts, on many development and modernization projects for the judiciary and the public administration and with many donors (USAID, European SAFE_USJ_Union, World Bank, UNDP…)- Judge at the Commission for Legislations and Consultations at the Lebanese Ministry of Justice (previously).- Judge of urgent cases and single penal judge in Tripoli (previously).- President of the enforcement (execution) bureau of Beirut (previously)- President of the First Instance Court at Bekaa district (Currently)- President of the Criminal court for minors at Bekaa district (Currently)- Judge supervisor of the (IT) (information technology or automation) projects in the Lebanese Ministry of justice.- Head (Judge Supervisor) of the IT Center in the Ministry of justice.- Professor at many Lebanese universities of law material and especially cyberlaw: “Lebanese University”, “La Sagesse University”, “USJ University”, “Lebanese American University (LAU)”, “Phoenicia University” and at the Judicial Institute of legal studies and at the Institute of Lebanese Internal Security Forces (ISF).- Former professor at “The Holy Spirit- Kaslik Univeristy” and at “The Antonine University”.- Has participated (and many times as a speaker) in many legal conferences, seminars and workshops in Lebanon and abroad in the field of law (civil and penal), IT law, E signature, cybercrime, digital evidence, E government, cryptocurrencies, artficial intelligence, combating terrorism, terrorism financing, development of the judiciary and public administration, training…- Has been member of many legal committees responsible of drafting Lebanese laws, including IT and cyber laws and working on development and modernization projects in the judiciary and public administration.


Education

Diplôme Université Pays Année
Doctor (PhD) in Law Université de Montpellier France 2007
Master Université Libanaise (UL) Lebanon 2003
Bachelor Université Libanaise (UL) Lebanon 1997
Bachelor of Engineering American University of Beirut (AUB) Lebanon 1994

Teaching at USJ

Enseignant Ens a USJ
ESIB

University teaching outside USJ

University teaching outside USJ Pays Institution Start date End date
Professor of Law Lebanon Lebanese American University (LAU) 01/02/2022 06/06/2022
Professor of Law Lebanon Université Libanaise (UL) 03/10/2011
Professor of Law Lebanon Université la Sagesse (ULS) 01/09/2004

Professional experience outside USJ

Professional experience Organisation Start date End date
Judge Ministry of justice 06/02/1998

Areas of expertise

Enseignant Discipline
Law, Political Sciences

Research themes

Enseignant Thematique

Legal informatics, Cyber law (E_signature, E_commerce, Domain names, artificial intelligence, cybercrimes, digital evidence...), civil/commercial penal law...

Publications and communications

Enseignant Publi and Com

- Book, “The legal aspects of social media networks”, (in arabic), Arab League Center for judicial researches, 2017.- Study on “Security in the cyber space fighting cybercrimes in the Arab region”, ESCWA, 2015.- Article on “the Lebanese efforts to protect children over the internet”, ESCWA bulletin, N 15, Nov 2011.- Book, “The problematic of legal information retrieval and prospects of solutions, The Lebanese case”, (in French), Sader publishers, Beirut, 2009.- Book, “The Electronic Proof”, (in Arabic), Sader publishers, Beirut, 2002.- Many articles and researches and papers in civil/commercial/penal/administrative law and legal informatics

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