Mahmoud Abu Soay
He is a Senior Partner and Head of the Litigation Department at Andersen – Palestine, and legal counsel to a number of Palestinian companies and international institutions. He also serves as a part-time lecturer in the Law Department at Birzeit University. Previously, he was a full-time lecturer in the same department and Coordinator of the Constitutional Law Unit at the Faculty of Law and Public Administration, Birzeit University.
He has managed, coordinated, and supervised numerous funded projects with research, development, legislative, and consultative frameworks. He has served on various legal, advisory, legislative, and scientific committees at the national level, as well as professionally within the Palestinian Bar Association, and academically within the Faculty of Law and Public Administration at Birzeit University.
He is a founding member of the Arab Association of Constitutional Law, a founding member of the Palestinian Jurists Association, and currently serves on its Board of Directors while acting as its Executive Director. He is also Chairman of the Board of Defence for Children International – Palestine (DCI), Secretary of the Board of ACT Institute for Studies and Alternative Dispute Resolution Methods, and an accredited arbitrator with the same institution. In addition, he is a Board Member of the Palestinian Sports Arbitration Authority and a certified arbitrator with it, as well as an accredited arbitrator with the Palestinian Ministry of Justice.
He has presented research papers at numerous international and local scientific conferences and seminars. He is the author of a peer-reviewed book and several published peer-reviewed studies, along with many articles in the fields of International Law, Constitutional Law, and Human Rights—with particular focus on violations of rights and freedoms in Palestine, as well as topics at the intersection of law and economics.
He holds a Ph.D. in Public Law from University of Tunis El Manar – Tunisia, with the distinction of “Très Honorable” (Very High Honors), for his dissertation entitled “Constitutional Review in Palestine”. He also earned a Master’s degree in Public Law from the Faculty of Law and Public Administration at Birzeit University, with a thesis in Constitutional Law entitled: “Challenges of Separation of Powers and Judicial Independence in Palestine: Conflicts of Authority in the Justice Sector.” He graduated with Excellence in Law from the Faculty of Law and Public Administration at Birzeit University.
