The College of Law at the University of Baghdad held the first and semi-annual Iraqi Constitutional Judiciary Forum in cooperation with the Federal Supreme Court, in the presence of the President of the Federal Supreme Court, Judge Jassim Al-Amiri, the President of the University of Baghdad, Prof. Dr. Bahaa Ibraheem Ansaf under the supervision of the Dean of the College of Law, Prof. Dr. Ali Hadi Attia, a group of academics, graduate students, and a number of judges and experts in legal affairs.
The forum aimed to review and discuss the most prominent decisions of the Federal Supreme Court and their impact on the legal and political levels, as well as to find common spaces to support the experience of the constitutional judiciary in Iraq.
In his speech, the President of the University of Baghdad stressed the need to hold a regional conference specialized in the constitutional judiciary to discuss issues that enrich the constitutional process in Iraq, as well as the need for scientific communication between the academic side and the labor market and improve the university’s outputs to improve the tasks and activities of state institutions, especially the Federal Court.
For his part, the Dean of the College of Law expressed his support for this constitutional process to enable the judiciary to address the crises it faces, and to enrich the judicial arena and workers in the field of law in general and constitutional law in particular.
