For the third year in a row, the Faculty of Law at Ain Shams University organized a workshop on the topic of transparency in international commercial arbitration in cooperation with the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), which is one of the organs of the General Assembly of the United Nations concerned with unifying the rules of international trade law since 1966.

This comes under the patronage of Prof. Mohamed Diaa Zain El-Abedeen, President of Ain Shams University, Prof. Mohamed Safi, Dean of the Faculty, and Prof. Yassin El-Shazly, Vice Dean for Postgraduate Studies and Research.

This workshop aims to increase awareness of the importance of transparency in resolving commercial disputes, especially in the areas of investment, by reviewing and discussing the UNCITRAL Rules for Transparency in Contractual Arbitration, which were issued in 2014. A number of judges, academics, practitioners, researchers, and government officials participated in this event, to exchange views on the efficiency of the system for settling international commercial disputes in line with transparency requirements.

This scientific event is the first event held on this topic in the Middle East, which reflects Ain Shams University’s commitment to promoting dialogue and knowledge exchange in the fields of international trade law. Ms. Anna Jobin Brett, Secretary-General of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, stressed the importance of Egypt’s role in promoting international trade and supporting transparency in commercial arbitration.

Advisor. Dr. Hossam Sadiq, Assistant Minister of Justice for International Cooperation Affairs, also expressed his great happiness at being present at the Faculty of Law, at Ain Shams University, appreciating the important research role of the Faculty over the past three years and its involvement in topics that keep pace with legislative and judicial developments, whether national or international.

The Faculty is proud of its ongoing partnership with the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, as the two parties have organized together many scientific events over the past three years, and they will participate in organizing the international conference that the Faculty will hold during the sixteenth and seventeenth of next November on the subject of drafting contracts and agreements, and its effects on arbitration.