Samir Saad
دانشگاهی · Late Ottoman legal history
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Lawمعرفی
Dr. Samir Saad is a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Private Law under Prof. Dr. Ralf Michaels, specializing in legal and intellectual history of the Arab world and late Ottoman Empire. His research focuses on political, legal, and social dynamics of Middle Eastern modernity, particularly the reform of Ottoman civil law in Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq.
Education: PhD in Middle Eastern History from King's College, Cambridge; LLB from the UK; undergraduate degree in Politics from Canada. Professional background includes 2 years as a trainee lawyer in Amman (2017-2019).
Research Interests:
- Contested visions of civil law reform in Arab regions
- Interplay between imperialism and nation-building
- Legal frameworks shaping Arab political ideologies
Advising/Grants: No formal advisees listed. Current research emphasizes Ottoman transactional civil law reforms and their socio-political implications.
