Mohamed Mattar, LLB, SJD Biography
- Title:
- Executive Director of the Protection Project
- Position:
- Con to the question "Should Prostitution Be Legal?"
- Reasoning:
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“Some legislation institutes legalize prostitution, some decriminalize, and some punish the women that are in prostitution. Others punish the customer, and I like that approach. The Swedish Law makes buying sex, not selling sex, a crime. You get up to six months imprisonment for this offense.”
Speech in Chisinau, Moldova, Nov. 17-18, 2003
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Executive Director, Protection Project, Johns Hopkins University
- Former Professor, Alexandria University, Egypt; Arab University of Beirut, Lebanon; American University’s Washington College of Law; and Georgetown University Law Center
- Former Legal Advisor, Cultural Mission to the United States, Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia
- Former Legal Advisor, Embassy of the United Arab Emirates
- Former Legal Advisor, Abu Dhabi Free Zone Authority, United Arab Emirates
- Former Legal Advisor, Arab National Bank, Saudi Arabia
- Education:
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- LLB, honors, Alexandria University, Egypt
- DPL, honors, Alexandria University, Egypt
- MCL, University of Miami
- SJD, Tulane University, 1986
- LLM, Tulane University, 1983
- Other:
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- None found