Samer GHAMROUN

Enseignant Cadré - Professeur associé - Dr.

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

Samer Ghamroun is currently an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law & Political Science at Saint-Joseph University of Beirut, where he teaches legal sociology & anthropology, political economy, legal history, constitutional law, fundamental rights & freedoms, & the principles of the fair trial, among other courses. Samer holds his Ph.D in legal sociology from the École Normale Supérieure of Cachan, in Paris, on the subject of judicial competition between juvenile & sharia judges in Lebanon, around the protection of children & womens rights. Samer’s research & publications pertain to law & society relations in Arab contexts, covering topics such as the religious legal systems for family law & their relationship with civil systems, as well as legal pluralism & the state’s normative power. His research interests also include the transformation of legal professions, the relationship between politics, law & the judiciary, legal education public administration in Lebanon and the Arab region. Samer partook in the initial effort to build the Legal Agenda, a non-profit organization based in Beirut and Tunis, whose work aims at bridging the gap between research and activism, and between law and other social sciences, with the objective of democratizing the understanding and access to law and rights. He was a member of its first team in 2010, and held several research responsibilities there, and presided over its Board between 2014 and 2018. He is currently a senior researcher and a scientific editor within the LA team in Beirut, in charge of developing the institution’s research efforts in using the social sciences, their theories and methods, to study and reform legal practices and judicial institutions and professions in Arab countries, in accordance with the common good and the rights of vulnerable people.