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The FORUM will consist of five podium discussions and an audience, held over the course of two days. Each podium will contain three experts and a moderator, the panel participants will include local, regional and international experts. The FORUM aims to become a center of interest for all legal scholars and practitioners in the region, not only as a result of the importance of topics that are to be discussed but also as an annual opportunity to network and meet like-minded experts in their field.

In this first edition, the five panels' main themes will be as follows:

•    First Panel: Access to Justice amidst ongoing economic and social struggles.

•   Second Panel: Constitutional mechanisms to secure the independence of the judiciary – election of judges, financing of judiciary and possible constitutional amendments.

•    Third Panel: A comparative perspective on truth and memory, then and now: Tunisia, Morocco & Lebanon.

•    Fourth Panel: The critical role of media in implementing the rule of law and securing justice; current standing of media laws’ promulgation.

•    Fifth Panel: Privacy, IP and access to information in a rule of law environment.

Find the full program HERE.

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