Salah A. Mattar

Founding Partner Of Mattar Law Firm.
Attorney at law since 1966.
Experienced in numerous fields of law such as Civil, Business and Criminal Law.

Salah A. Mattar
Attorney at law since 1966.

Birth
11/04/1940 – Tannourine, Lebanon.

High school education
Freres Maristes, Antoura, College des Apotres.
Fluent in Arabic, French & English.

Diploma
LL.B from the Saint JosephUniversity, Beirut.

Career
Attorney at law since 1966, especially in business law and criminal law.
Secretary of editing of “Al-Adl” (The Justice) magazine of the Lebanese Association Bar in Beirut (1969-77)
Professor of Arabic literature.
Legal affairs abroad ( Paris, London,Cairo, Caracas, Amman etc…)
Political visits to foreign countries (USA, France, Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, Columbia, Egypt, Syria, Jordan…)
Co-Founder of the International Council for the Islamic – Christian Cooperation (1985)

Publications (In Arabic)
In Law
Optional civil law for personal statutes (1970)
Electoral law and evolution of democracy (1971)
Studies in the constitution and Human Rights (1989)
Trilingual law dictionary of 1770 pages: Arabic, French, English (2001) in collaboration of Dr. Rouhy Baalbaki and late Attorney Maurice Nahkle.

In Political Literature & Poetry
Fakhreddine (Political play – 1969)
Lebanon: message to the future (1978)
For Liberty & Love (Poems: 1981)
Dimensions (1991)
The new Eve (1991)

In Print
Like an eagle rising from ash (Poems)
Christ’s trial (Poems)
The legend of the rocks (Poems)
The Songs of Love (Poems)
Famous Trials & Decisions.
Before the Advocacy and in its fields.

Achievements
“A nation cannot be built upon distinction”
Nationally, he is a secularist (liberty of belief, separation of religion from the state) and he is one of the first people who made bills of laws in order to achieve this principle.
On the Lebanese level, Salah Mattar has sought since the seventies for the modernization of the State, its total reform and democratic change and the rule of law.
He is a courageous defendant of the development and improvement of the Lebanese People, and in general, of the Human Rights and Liberties.
He insists that there should be no contradiction between Arabism & Lebanesism, the latter including the characteristics of Lebanon and its Arabic and Humanitarian missions, the former being the utmost cooperation between Lebanon and the Arab States.

Awards and Nominations
Universal Award of Accomplishment
Lifetime Achievement Award
International Peace Prize
World Lifetime Achievement Award
The Award of the Long Practice Excellency given by the bar association of lawyers in Beirut. (50 years+)