Professor Antonios ABOU KASM was appointed as a new Dean of the Faculty of Political Sciences and International Relations of La Sagesse University.
Professor ABOU KASM, is an international Counsel admitted to international practice before international criminal tribunals, and a Professor of International law at the Lebanese University and the UNITAR. He is a shortlisted candidate to the mandate of the United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on freedom of peaceful assembly and of association (Human rights Council – 55th session 2024).
Previously he was as a Lead Counsel before the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, and he served as Chairman of the Professional Standards Advisory Committee of the International Criminal Court Bar Association for two consecutive mandates. At the academic level, he was the Director of the Faculty of Law and Political and Administrative Sciences of the Lebanese University (Branch 4), in addition of being a Professor at Fouad Chehab Academy for Command and General Staff and at the Research
and Strategic Studies Center of the Lebanese Armed Forces, and a lecturer at the Political Sciences Institute of the Saint Joseph University.
Source: National News Agency – Lebanon