The Continuing Education Institute (CEI) at the American University of Iraq-Baghdad (AUIB) held a graduation ceremony for the first cohort of its training program in Administrative Law, where short speeches were delivered by Mr. Ziad Chaaban, CEI’s CEO, Judge Dr. Ahmad Al-Nuaymi, program Trainer, and Dr. Khansaa Jassim, Associate Dean of AUIB’s College of Law, who contributed to developing the aforementioned training program. Certificates were awarded to those who have successfully completed the program of the participant professionals working in the legal sector.
Continuing Education has become of the main pillars of the education sector in many countries, and AUIB’s CEI has tasked itself with working to develop education in various fields in Iraq, in a manner that caters to the needs of the various economic sectors and keeps up with technological developments worldwide, said Mr. Chaaban in his statement in which he congratulated the “first harvest” of CEI’s training program in administrative law.
In her turn, Dr. Jassim spoke of the efforts on part of AUIB to “disseminate legal culture and awareness as wide as possible in Iraq,” and also spoke of the need to develop the legal system in the country. In this context, she cited CEI’s efforts, in partnership with the Union of Iraqi Jurists, the Iraqi Bar Association, and also the UNDP, to organize a series of lectures and workshops on the development of the legal system in Iraq, especially in regard to laying the legal framework for Arbitration.