The researcher Alaa Ali Shehada Hawamda, a commercial law student at the Faculty of Graduate Studies at the Arab American University campus in Ramallah, defended his master's degree thesis in commercial law entitled “Arbitration with the Mandate of Reconciliation in the Palestinian Legal System.”
Researcher, student Alaa Ali Shehada Hawamda specialized in Commercial Law at the Faculty of Graduate Studies
The thesis is the first one in the country where it discussed arbitration with the mandate of reconciliation at all stages of the arbitration process. Researcher Hawamda mentioned the limits and controls of the arbitrator authorized reconciliation authority and this type’s specificity, what are the related problems to the arbitration process due to the lack of rules, comparing the three legislations; Palestinian, Jordanian and Egyptian, and the use of some legal texts.
In the end, the committee composed of the thesis supervisor and chairman of the committee Prof. Dr. Yousef Shendi, Arab American University internal examiner Dr. Anas Abu Al-Oun, and the external examiner Director of the Palestinian Higher Judicial Council Dr. Rasha Hammad, decided to grant the student Alaa Hawamda master's degree.