The Faculty of Law, Ain Shams University, organized a scientific symposium on amending the bankruptcy and restructuring law and its impact on attracting foreign investments in light of internal and international challenges, in partnership with the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL).

The opening remarks of the symposium came from Professor Dr. Muhammad Safi, Dean of the College, and Ms. Anna Jobin Brett, Secretary of UNCITRAL and Director of the Division of International Trade Law in the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs.

Also participated in the opening session with a speech, Counselor Ahmed Khairy, Assistant Minister of Justice for Specialized Courts Affairs, which is the sector to which the economic courts specializing in bankruptcy belong, and which is one of the college’s partners in the student training and conference organizing program, which began last year.

The conference brought together speakers and attendees of a group of law professors, judges, lawyers, and international employees, as well as college students from all levels.

The Faculty of Law, Ain Shams University, organized a scientific symposium on amending the bankruptcy and restructuring law and its impact on attracting foreign investments in light of internal and international challenges, in partnership with the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL).

The opening remarks of the symposium came from Professor Dr. Muhammad Safi, Dean of the College, and Ms. Anna Jobin Brett, Secretary of UNCITRAL and Director of the Division of International Trade Law in the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs.

He also participated in the opening session with a speech by Counselor Ahmed Khairy, Assistant Minister of Justice for Specialized Courts Affairs, which is the sector to which the economic courts specializing in bankruptcy belong, and which is one of the college’s partners in the student training and conference organizing program, which began last year.

The conference brought together speakers and attendees of a group of law professors, judges, lawyers, and international employees, as well as college students from all levels.

The organization of this event comes as the first of the “UNCITRAL Days in Africa,” which is organized by the United Nations Committee for the second year in a row, and the Faculty of Law at Ain Shams University maintains its distinguished partnership with UNCITRAL in this regard, as this event comes as the first event to launch UNCITRAL activities in Africa from within Ain Shams University for the second year in a row. UNCITRAL will also participate in organizing the college’s conference on artificial intelligence on the fourth and fifth of November 2023.

Cooperation with UNCITRAL is among the college’s priorities with the aim of linking it with prestigious international legal bodies and providing the college students with the opportunity to experience the practical reality. In addition to organizing conferences and scientific events, the college began working as a strategic partner with UNCITRAL in the CLOUT project related to the database of national and international arbitration awards, which UNCITRAL launched several years ago. For years with the aim of collecting, classifying and summarizing the basic rulings related to arbitration from national and international courts, in order to make all those rulings freely available to all.

The strategic partnership between the College of Law and UNCITRAL in various projects is coordinated by Dr. Ahmed Khalifa, Director of the College of International Cooperation Office.