Marie-Claude Najm
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Marie-Claude Najm | |
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ماري كلود نجم | |
| Minister of Justice | |
| In office 21 January 2020 – 10 September 2021 | |
| President | Michel Aoun |
| Prime Minister | Hassan Diab |
| Preceded by | Albert Serhan |
| Succeeded by | Henry Khoury |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 6 April 1971 |
| Party | Independent[citation needed] |
| Spouse | Daniel Kobeh |
| Children | 1 |
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Marie-Claude Najm (Arabic: ماري كلود نجم; born 6 April 1971) is a Lebanese academic who served as Minister of Justice from 2020 to 2021.
Najm studied law at the Saint Joseph University in Beirut and continued her studies at the Paris-Panthéon-Assas University from where she also graduated and later earned her PhD.[1]
She taught at the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences of the Saint Joseph University in Beirut[1] and also in France, where she was a visiting professor at the University Panthéon-Assas (Paris II) and the University Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I).[1] She is closely related to the Saint Joseph University, where she was the director of the Center for Legal Studies in the Arab World ("CEDROMA") and is currently the Dean of the Faculty of Law as of 2022.[2]
Her publications focus on conflicts of laws and jurisdictions. In 2007 she was a founding member of the “Khalass!", which aimed at finding a peaceful solution to the political deadlock at the time.[1] She was a supporter of the protests in 2019–2020, again a founding member of a civil protest movement and taught law in the revolutionary tents of the Martyrs' Square in Beirut.[3]