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S.J.D. Alumni Profiles
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Alumni of Georgetown's S.J.D. program have gone on to diverse careers around the world, from academic appointments at leading universities to positions in public service to careers in private practice. This page profiles some of our recent S.J.D. alumni. Profiled Alumni:
Adam Abdelmoula, S.J.D. '97UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative for Kuwait LL.M. Harvard Adam was previously the Chief of the Middle East and North Africa Section of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva. From 2004 to 2007, he was the Deputy Chief Human Rights Officer for UNMIL, Liberia. He was also the Senior Human Rights Adviser and Team Leader for UNOHCHR/UNOHCI/UNAMI, Iraq from 2003 to 2004. From 1999 to 2003, he served in Somalia for UNOHCHR as a Senior Human Rights and Rule of Law Adviser. Before beginning a career in the UN system, Adam worked for the Fund for Peace, the Institute of International Education, Human Rights watch, and the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights in the United States. From 1989 to early 1991, he worked for the Ford Foundation as well as the Arab Lawyers Union in Egypt. He practiced law in Sudan from 1982 to 1989. Adam speaks fluent Arabic and English. A dual citizen of the Sudan and the United States, Adam is married and has three children. Selected Publications:Fund for Peace, A Handbook of Practical Strategies for Human Rights NGOs (1999) Arab Studies Quarterly, The Fundamentalist Agenda for Human Rights, Sudan and Algeria (1996) Fund for Peace, Human Rights Institution Building (1994) Journal of the Legal Profession, Libya: Control of Lawyers by the State (1992) Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, Six Papers on the Independence of the Legal Profession in the Arab World (1992) Al-Haq Quarterly, Sudan's Judiciary in the 1989 Coup Aftermath (1991)
Won-Mog Choi, S.J.D. '02Professor of Law and Director of the WTO Law Center, LL.M. Georgetown Professor Choi has been a Professor of Law at Ehwa Womans University since 2010, and was Associate Professor of Law from 2009 to 2010. He is an editorial board member of the Journal of International Economic Law (Oxford), the Law and Development Review (Sydney), the Indian Journal of International Economic Law (Bangalore), the Beijing Law Review (Beijing), and the Journal of Korea Trade (Seoul). Selected Publications:FTAs and Safeguard Norms: Their Variation and Compatability, Asian Journal of WTO and International Health Law and Policy, vol. 6 no. 1 (2011) China's First Loss, Journal of World Trade, vol. 45 no. 2 (2011) (co-author) Law and Development Perspective on International Trade Law (Cambridge University Press 2011) (co-author) Trade Law and Regulation in Korea (Edward Elgar Publihsing 2011) (co-author) East Asia Economic Integration (Seoul Economy & Business Press 2009) (co-author) "Like Products" in International Trade Law - Towards a Consistent GATT/WTO Jurisprudence (Oxford University Press 2003) WTO Non-Discrimination Principle - Analysis and Application (Ministry of Justice of Korea 2003) Yousef T. Jabareen, S.J.D. '03Founding Director, Arab Center for Law and Policy, Dirasat LL.B. Hebrew University Dr. Jabareen is a human rights scholar, lawyer, and community activist. In addition to serving as director of the Arab Center for Law and Policy, he teaches courses on law and social change, minority rights, and the legal status of Palestinians at the University of Haifa and Tel Aviv University. Selected Publications:Constitution Building and Equality in Deeply-Divided Societies: The Case of the Arab Minority in Israel, 26 Wis. Int'l L.J. 345 (2008) Towards a Participatory Equality: Protecting Minority Rights Under International Law, 41 Israel L. Rev. 635 (2008) Law, Minority and Transformation: A Critique and Rethinking of Civil Rights Doctrine, 46 Santa Clara L. Rev. 513 (2006) José Antonio Rivas, S.J.D. '05 (with Distinction)Adjunct Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center LL.M. Georgetown Professor Rivas is an Adjunct Professor of Trade and Integration at Georgetown and a former Professor of Public International Law at the Universidad de los Andes in Colombia. As a practitioner, he concentrates his practice in international investment arbitration, representing states and private parties before ICSID and the International Chamber of Commerce. He previously served as Director of Foreign Investment for the Colombian Trade Ministry and as Counsel for ICSID. While at the Colombian Trade Ministry, he directed Colombia's response to cases of international investment arbitration and coordinated the prevention of investment disputes. He also headed the drafting of Colombia's bilateral investment treaty model and led Colombia's negotiating investment team in concluding over twelve international investment agrements. He led negotiations for cross border trade in services and telecommunications chapters. Selected Publications:"Implementation of Investment Treaty Obligations and Management of "Managing Investment Treaty Obligations and Investor-State Disputes: A Guide for Government Officials (Chapter Five)" Latin American Investment “Do Rules of Origin in Free Trade Agreements Comply with Article XXIV “Agreements for the Protection of Foreign Investments”, in Al Derecho, Edición Especial 40 Años, Universidad de Los Andes (Bogotá), 2008 (with Santiago Wills) Ali Adnan Ibrahim, S.J.D. '08Vice President, Al Baraka Banking Group LL.M. Washington University in St. Louis Dr. Ibrahim joined the Al Baraka Banking Group, headquartered in Bahrain, as Vice President in 2010, and leads the Group's M&A, Shariah structuring, and microfinance inititiatives. Prior to joining Al Baraka Banking Group, Dr. Adnan was Counsel at Baker & McKenzie and a senior associate at Rizvi, Isa, Afridi & Angell and at Akram Sheikh Law Associates in Pakistan. Since 2008, Dr. Ibrahim has been an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown where he designed and teaches a class on Islamic Finance Law. He is Co-Chair of the American Bar Association's Islamic Finance Committee, an Islamic Finance Professional Expert for Pakistan's Federal Shariah Court and a Specialist-Respondent for the World Bank. When he entered Georgetown to begin his S.J.D., he was the first Pakistani lawyer to receive a Fulbright Doctoral Scholarship. Selected Publications:Incentivizing Microfinance for Islamic Financial Institutions: Financially Mainstreaming the Microenterprise, in Shariah Compliant Microfinance, Routledge (2011) Analysing the Growth of Islamic Law in International Arbitration and Dispute Resolution, (2009) (MEALEY’S International Arbitration Report) Developing Capital Markets in Muslim Countries: Strategies and Policies for Securities Regulation and Corporate Governance (2008), (Islamic Development Bank, KSA) The Rise of Customary Businesses in International Financial Markets: An Introduction to Islamic Finance and the Islamic Financial Services Industry (2008) (American University International Law Review) (appeared as the lead article in a special Islamic finance issue) Convergence of Corporate Governance and Islamic Financial Services Industry: Toward Islamic Financial Services Securities Market (2007), (Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA) |
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