"When Judges Stand together …"
Beirut, October 10-11, 2008
 

A Meeting in Beirut that will include judges and jurists from various Arab countries for the study and discussion of the collective movements of judges in the Arab world, and its interaction with social mobility. This will be done and prepared by a team of Arab experts.

The projected research aims at shedding light on the experience of four Arab countries (Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt and Algeria) where such Clubs of Judges are still active, albeit the difference in achievements of each of the four movements. Moreover, it is worth extending the research to collective movements in another selected country (Lebanon) where no Club of Judges is yet initiated. The synthesis shall entail, besides a summing up of the 5 country studies, the experience of collective movements in some European countries. 

The synthesis chapter shall integrate the findings of the country studies as well as the experiences of some European countries into a comprehensive vision that sketches out the potential role and responsibility of law and law practitioners in political and social change in the region, weigh the potential of collective action against other forms and ways of assuming this role, and arrive at conclusions for the types and avenues of reform appropriate for the region.

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