Abdul Hamid EL-AHDAB
Address
Rue El Fayadieh - Immeuble Gardénia
PO Box: 443 - Hazmieh
Beirut -
Lebanon
1bis avenue de Lowendal
75007 Paris
France
Phone
+961 5 951 827
Fax
+961 5 951 973
Links
Website
http://www.wgzarbitration.com
Bar Admission
Beirut - 1965
Paris - 1986
Education
Lebanese University (Maîtrise de droit - 1965; DES - 1977)
University of Paris (Doctorat en droit - 1980)
Academic Position
Professor of Law (Arbitration Law) - Arab University of Beirut
Experience as Counsel
Numerous international arbitration proceedings, ad hoc (including UNCITRAL) and under the Rules of the ICC and LCIA, Cairo Regional Centre of International Commercial Arbitration (CRCICA) and Lebanese Arbitration Centre (mostly commercial law and construction matters)
Awards
CRCICA, Final Award, 21 Dec 1995
Publications Relating to Arbitration
Arbitration with the Arab Countries (Kluwer, 2d ed. 1998)
Encyclopedia of Arbitration (in Arabic, 2 vols., Dar Al Maaref, 1998)
Arbitration (in Arabic, 4 vols., Naufal, 1990)
L’arbitrage dans les pays arabes (Economica, 1988)
"Arbitration gained the Confidence of the Arab World to become a Means for Alternative Dispute Resolution Instead of War" (forthcoming in Mélanges en l’honneur de Serge Lazareff, Pedone, 2011)
"La nouvelle loi jordanienne sur l'arbitrage," 2002(2) Rev. arb. 301
"International Arbitral Procedural and Evidence," 1 J. Arab Arb. 16 (May 1999)
"The New Arbitration Act of the Sultanate of Oman," 12(12) Int’l Arb. Rep. 16 (1997)
"General Introduction on Arbitration in Arab Countries," in International Handbook on Commercial Arbitration (P. Sanders ed., Kluwer, Suppl. II, 1990)
"The Moslem Arbitration Law," in Arab Comparative & Commercial Law, Proceedings of the IBA firtst Arab Regional Conference, Cairo 15-19 Feb. 1987, Vol. I, Paper 14, at 323 (Graham & Trotman)
"L’arbitrage en Arabie Saoudite," 1981 Rev. arb. 239
Other Credentials
Member, ICC French National Committee; Member, French Arbitration Committee
Chairman, sole arbitrator, or member of the tribunal in numerous international arbitration proceedings, ad hoc (including UNCITRAL) and under the Rules of the ICC, LCIA, Chambre Arbitrale de Paris, Cairo Regional Centre of International Commercial Arbitration (CRCICA) and Lebanese Arbitration Centre