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It was announced Thursday in Nouakchott that Moroccan university professor Abdallah Boudad won first place in the second edition of the Arab League Prize for Law and Judiciary – private law category.
Professor at the Faculty of Sharia, Ait Melloul – Ibn Zohr University, Agadir, won this prize for a thesis entitled “Civil liability to ensure product safety – A comparative study”, thesis with which he obtained a doctorate in private law .
The prize was awarded to the sacred Moroccan researcher, Mauritanian Prime Minister Mokhtar Ould Ajay, during a ceremony organized on this occasion, which was notably attended by the representative of the Secretary General of the League of Arab States, Ambassador Hussein Al -Hindawi, and the Mauritanian Minister of Justice, Mohamed Mahmoud Bey, representing the Council of Arab Ministers of Justice, and political and diplomatic figures, including an ambassador from the Kingdom of Mauritania Hamid Chabar.
In a statement to the Arab Maghreb Press, researcher Boudad estimated that this award constitutes recognition of the quality of higher education and the solidity of university research in Morocco, especially since nearly a thousand Theses were submitted for the prize, around a hundred of them. selected for the final stages of the competition.
He urged Moroccan researchers to apply for international and regional prizes, especially since there are “valuable initiatives” at the level of research centers and universities in Morocco, calling for encouraging researchers and promoting their research to motivate them to devote their scientific and intellectual efforts to carrying out research of scientific value that rivals and matches research at the international level.
It should be noted that the first place of the prize in the public law category went equally to Professor Mohamed Abu Al-Enein from Egypt for his thesis entitled “Criminal liability arising from the transmission of the AIDS virus” and to Professor Mohamed Hathati from Algeria for her thesis “The system of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon in the light of international criminal law”.
The prize, supervised by the Council of Arab Ministers of Justice through the Arab Center for Legal and Judicial Research (based in Beirut), is awarded once every two years (Beirut hosted the first edition in 2022) with the aim to encourage the field and comparative studies applied to Arab law and the judicial system, particularly those that deal with realistic problems presented to the law and the judicial system.
