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Marie-Claude Najm
ماري كلود نجم
Minister of Justice
In office
21 January 2020 – 10 September 2021
PresidentMichel Aoun
Prime MinisterHassan Diab
Preceded byAlbert Serhan
Succeeded byHenry Khoury
Personal details
Born (1971-04-06) 6 April 1971 (age 53)
Beirut, Lebanon
Political partyIndependent
SpouseDaniel Kobeh
Children1
Alma mater
ProfessionLawyer, politician

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.

Education and academic career

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 is the director of the Center for Legal Studies in the Arab World ("CEDROMA") and 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]

Political career

In January 2020, Najm became the Minister of Justice in the cabinet of Prime Minister Hassan Diab.[4] She was one of the six female ministers in the Diab Government counting 20 ministries, which was viewed as a step in the right direction towards gender equality in Lebanon politics.[5] Shortly after the 2020 Beirut explosions, on 10 August 2020, Najm announced her resignation from the government.[6] Najm was the third cabinet minister to step down after the explosions.[6] Her resignation sparked that of the Diab government within hours. Her final act in Diab's government was to commission the Supreme Council of Lebanon, which is the country's top judicial body, to investigate the causes of the disaster, and thereby relieved the public prosecutor Ghassan El Khoury of the task.

Personal life

She is married to Daniel Kobeh. The couple has a daughter.[1] Najm is a Maronite Christian.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Qui est Marie Claude Najm, la nouvelle ministre de la Justice?". libnanews.com (in French). 26 January 2020. Retrieved 2020-08-09.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ^ "Site de l'Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth - USJ". www.usj.edu.lb. Retrieved 2020-08-09.
  3. ^ Naji, Rafaela (29 January 2020). "The New Justice Minister Of Lebanon Is Actually Pro-Revolution". The961. Retrieved 2020-08-09.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. ^ "Lebanon unveils new government headed by Hassan Diab". Al Arabiya English. 2020-01-21. Retrieved 2020-08-09.
  5. ^ "Six female ministers: a positive step in the right direction, but what about political impartiality?". L'Orient-Le Jour. 2020-01-27. Retrieved 2020-09-01.
  6. ^ a b Allahoum, Ted Regencia, Linah Alsaafin, Ramy. "'Endemic corruption' caused Beirut blast, says Diab: Live updates". www.aljazeera.com.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  7. ^ "Who is in the new Lebanese government?". The National. 2020-10-28. Retrieved 2020-10-28.
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