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Karim El Chazli
Lawyer - Doctor of Law
Qualified for the position of Lecturer in Private Law
— Thesis: The Impartiality of the Arbitrator, LGDJ, coll. Private Law Library, vol. 604, 2020, 431 pp.
Master 2 in Private International Law, Panthéon-Sorbonne University
Magister Juris, Oxford University
Born in Saudi Arabia and holding dual French and Egyptian citizenship, Karim studied in Paris, Cairo, and Oxford, conducted research in New York (Columbia Law School) and Hamburg (Max Planck Institute), and has resided in Switzerland for nearly ten years.
A specialist in comparative law, Karim authored a thesis on arbitral impartiality, which was awarded the CEDROMA Prize (Lebanon) and the CEPANI Prize (Belgium), and is qualified to hold a position as a Senior Lecturer.
Since 2013, Karim has been a legal expert specializing in the laws of Arab countries at the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law. Karim drafts legal opinions daily for courts, lawyers, and notaries: the punishability of marital rape under Tunisian law, the determination of forced heirs under Saudi law, the establishment of parentage under Syrian law, and the rights of commercial agents under Kuwaiti law—Karim tackles complex and varied issues.
In addition, Karim teaches arbitration law and Arab law at the University of Savoie Mont Blanc and participates in numerous conferences.
Karim is also a lawyer admitted to the Egyptian Bar.
Karim practices law in Arab countries.
“Disseminating the Jurisprudence of Courts in Arabic-Speaking Countries into French,” in Disseminating the Jurisprudence of Supreme Courts in the Internet Age, Proceedings of the Beirut Congress, June 13–14, 2019, Lexbase, 2020, pp. 56–59, available at:
https://www.ahjucaf.org/sites/default/files/2022-01/AHJUCAF%20Congre%CC%80s%20Beyrouth%20Actes%20mars%202020.pdf
“Recent Developments in Egyptian Family Law and Inheritance Law,” Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law, Vol. 21(1), pp. 116–122.
“The Role of Languages in the Knowledge and Development of the Laws of Arab Countries,” in Schauer M. and Verschraegen B. (eds.), General Reports of the XIXth Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law, Springer, 2017, pp. 593–606.
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