On August 12, 2015, Georges Jreij, Chief of the Beirut Bar Association, and Mark Smith, Dean of the Academy, signed a Memorandum of Understanding to promote participation by Beirut lawyers in the Academy of American and International Law. Academy alumni Jacques Chucrallah and Maryam Abdallah were instrumental in developing this parnternship.
SWIICL and Beirut Bar Enter Into Agreement to Promote the Academy