Overview
Background
- Academic position
- Emeritus Professor of Law (Domestic and international business law, international trade, domestic and international mediation and arbitration)
Associate Director - Centre for the Law of Business and International Trade, Montreal University - Bar admission
- Syria - 1964-1981
Quebec - 1976 - Education
- Damascus University (LLL - 1964)
St-Joseph University, Beirut (3 years of French LLL)
University of Paris (DES droit privé - 1967)
Comparative Law Institute (1967, LLD 1972)
University of Aix-en-Provence, France (LLD (H.C.)) - Experience as counsel
- Counsel in a number of institutional and ad hoc arbitrations, mostly related to projects in the Middle East; Counsel to Canadian and Quebec governments on matters of arbitration; President and General Counsel of the Quebec National and International Commercial Arbitration Centre (1986-2001)
- Publications
- Le règlement amiable des litiges (Yvon Blais, 1998; 2nd ed. in print)
"L'arbitrage collectif : Pourquoi pas?" in La Justice en marche : du recours collectif à l'arbitrage collectif (N.N. Antaki ed., Yvon Blais, 2007)
"Cultural Diversity and ADR Practices in the World," in ADR in Business: Practice and Issues Across Countries and Cultures (A. Ingen-Housz ed., Kluwer, 2006)
Strengthening Economic Relations with Arab and Islamic Countries: The Case of Direct Financial Investment (PCA and Kluwer 2001) - Links
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