Professor Karim Medjad

Karim Medjad, LL.M, Ph.D. is Professor of Law at H.E.C Paris, the most prestigious Business School in France, where he teaches, inter alia, the law that they need to entrepreneurs in the School’s much sought after entrepreneur’s program, Challenge Plus!
 
In addition to his academic activities, he is an attorney at law with fifteen years of professional experience.
 
Karim has provided legal advisory services to international donors including the World Bank and the European Union, governments, and the private sector.
 
In addition to WTO accession, his advisory services focus on the creation of a legislative and regulatory framework for private sector development, in the contexts of:

1. privatization of state-owned enterprises
2. development of Small to Medium Enterprises
3. removal of impediments to trade
4. partnership with firms from other EU countries
5. drafting company laws and commercial regulation to permit and favor development of an entrepreneurial environment

His international legal experience extends to over 30 countries on the five continents in areas ranging from venture capital transactions and joint ventures to project financing and legislative reforms.
 
Karim authored Workers’ Control As A Source Of Customary Ownership Rights: Evidence From The Privatization In The Former Yugoslav Republics, The Fate of the Yugoslav Model: A Case against Legal Conformity, and In Search of the “Hard Law”: Judicial Activism and International Corporate Social Responsibility, and coauthored An unprecedented privatization of legal rules: The EU’s accounting policy.
 
Karim earned his LL.M degree from Harvard Law School and earned his Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Paris, Pantheon-Sorbonne.