Mohamed Ismail

Mohamed A.M. Ismail () (born 24 November 1967) is an Egyptian jurist. He is a public figure in the legal circles in Egypt and Middle East region and well-known with international publications in international legal sphere. He is vice-president of the Egyptian State Council (Conseil d’État), Judge at the Egyptian Supreme Administrative Court, and former Judge at the Court of Appeal (Contracts Circuit). He is a fellow of the UK Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Visiting Professor and PhD examiner at British and Egyptian universities, and a lecturer at the Cairo Regional Centre of International Commercial Arbitration (CRCICA). He is the State Prize Laureate in Academic Legal Research for 2011/2012, granted by the Arab Republic of Egypt. Ismail is a lecturer at the Arab League and BCDR-AAA. He is also a member of the Comité Française d’Arbitrage.

* As a legal scholar who published extensively, among very few Arab scholars, on the international sphere, he argues that legal globalization phenomenon is a global tool for integration between common law and civil law legal cultures.

* Through promoting global understanding among people, societies and cultures in the legal sciences and in social sciences in general, he strongly argues that unification of international contract law principles is evidence of the legal globalization era. Unification of international contract law principles promotes global understanding in the international legal sphere as such unification will soon achieve global contract law. Global contract law is a tool to narrow the gap between common law and civil law legal cultures. Global contract law is a result to the legal globalization phenomenon. In addition, global contract law shall remove the barriers between state contracts (traditional administrative contracts with its exorbitant clauses) on one hand and international commercial contracts on the other. * Through his lectures in the University of London (SOAS), the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and as a visiting fellow in Max-Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg, he could achieve significant results that both international commercial arbitration and international investment arbitration are direct outcome of legal globalization and the influence of common law jurisdictions upon civil law legal culture is a reality. * The theories of legal globalization and its influence upon Arab civil law countries, and global contract law which will be achieved through unification of international contract law principles, remain among the latest legal theories which promote global understanding in international legal sphere and in social sciences. Provided by Wikipedia