Mohammad Mattar

Practice Areas

Litigation (cross-border white-collar crimes); Arbitration; Anti-Money Laundering (U.S. Treasury/OFAC and UK/SFO); Constitutional Law and Jurisprudence.

Career

Founding Partner of Levant Law Practice.

Member of Legal Representatives of Victims in The Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL).

Taught at Saint Joseph University Legal Lexicon and Philosophy of Law 2oo7-2014.

Member of legal team advising the Lebanese Government seeking compensation for the July 2006 war.

Professional Memberships

Beirut Bar Association.

Publications

Philosophical Framework of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Beirut/009: Proceedings of International Conference on Human Rights between Thought and Practice - November 20-21-2008/ Commission Nationale Libanaise pour L'Unesco.

IS LEBANESE CONFESSIONALISM TO BLAME? Breaking The Cycle – Civil Wars in Lebanon/ Edited by Youssef M. Choueiri, published in 2007 by Stacey International – London.

ON CORRUPTION: Options for Lebanon – Edited by Nawaf Salam, published in 2004 by Center for Lebanese Studies/ Oxford in association with I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd – London, and distributed by St. Martin’s Press – New York.

Personal

American University of Beirut, (BA Philosophy 1974).

University of London (SOAS), (MA Middle Eastern Studies/ Islamic Law 1977).

Lebanese University, (Licence en Droit 1979).

Oxford University (St Antony's College), (Read for D.Phil in History of Comparative Legal Theory (common and sharia laws 1980).