Address
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, 12, rue de Tilsitt, 75008 Paris, France Postcode :
Phone Fax
+33 1 40 74 68 00
+33 1 40 74 68 88
E mail - WebSite
kyoussef@cgsh.com
www.clearygottlieb.com
Nationality
Egyptian
Education
Yale Law School (J.S.D., 2007); Yale Law School (LL.M., 2002); Université de Paris I- Panthéon-Sorbonne (Maitrise, 2000); Cairo University, Faculty of Law (D.E.S., 2000); Cairo University, Faculty of Law (LL.B., 1999).
Bar Admission
Cairo - 1999.
Experience as Arbitrator and/or Counsel in Arbitrations
Dr. Youssef’s practice focuses on International arbitration and international law. He has experience in complex multiparty proceedings and investor-State arbitrations, particularly involving Middle Eastern parties or applicable law. Dr. Youssef lectures private and international law at Cairo University, School of Law. Before joining the law firm of Cleary Gottlieb, he acted as counsel for the Cairo Regional Center for International Commercial Arbitration (CRCICA), the ministry of Justice of Egypt, the Egyptian Capital Market Authority and the International Human Rights Law Institute of DePaul University in Chicago.
Present Position
Dr. Youssef is a professor of private and international law at Cairo University, an associate at the Arbitration and International Law practice of the law firm of Cleary Gottlieb and interalia a member of the ICC International Arbitration Commission.
Publications
Dr. Youssef is widely published on various aspects of international arbitration. Among his
recent publications: The Death of Inarbitrability, in Loukas Mistelis and Stavros Brekoulakis (eds), Arbitrability: International and Comparative Perspectives, Kluwer Law International 2009; and The
Independence of International Arbitrators: An Arbitrators Perspective, ICC Intl. Court of Arb. Bull., 2007 Special Supplement, ICC Pub. 690, 2008 (with Ahmed S. El-Kosheri).
Languages
Arabic (native), English, French.
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