Lebanese University alumna Dr. Ikram Chaer's dissertation won the University of Paris 2 (Panthéon-Assas) Award of Excellence, an honorary award given to a PhD dissertation based on its excellence, scientific significance, and societal benefit by France's premier law university.

The award was granted by the Scientific Research Council of the university after sixty-four dissertation candidates were considered for the scientific awards.

The 672-page dissertation is entitled: “Complicity and foreignness: a comparative study in French and Lebanese law”.

It was co-supervised by the Doctoral School of Law, Political, Administrative & Economic Sciences at the Lebanese University and the University of Paris 2 (Panthéon-Assas) under the supervision of Dr. Leila Saadeh of the Lebanese University and Dr. Philippe Conte of the French University.

The dissertation examined the issues raised by the topic of intervention in crime in the presence of a foreign element and the reality of the proliferation of the application of criminal law in the place, in Lebanese, French, American, Belgian, and Canadian international criminal law.

Furthermore, it analyzes the recent jurisprudence of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) in this area.