Dhafer DRIDI is a Lecturer at the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences of the University of Tunis. He teaches international contract law to the students of the master’s programme in International Business Law.
Dhafer is also an attorney in Tunisia, having practiced law since his admission to the Tunisian Bar in 2005. He is currently the proprietor of a law office in Tunis that offers legal services in several areas, such as arbitration, private international law, corporate law, banking and finance.
Dhafer has authored numerous academic articles published in local and regional revues and books.
Dhafer has been invited as a speaker to several symposia and events addressing significant legal issues relating to arbitration and private international law. He is a native speaker of Arabic and a fluent speaker of French and English.
Dhafer has held a number of positions in academic, research, and civil society organisations. In particular, he was a trainer at L’Institut Supérieur de la Magistrature (The Higher Institute of the Judiciary), L’Institut Supérieur de la Profession d’Avocat (The Higher Institute of the Legal Profession), and L’Ecole Nationale des Finances (The National School of Finance).
Dhafer was a member of the research commission at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines – University of Paris-Saclay and a member of the translation team of the Diplomatic Conference which adopted the Aircraft Protocol under the auspices of UNIDROIT. He is a vice-president of the Tunisian Association for ADR.
Dhafer participated in several academic trainings and summer programmes offered by globally-renowned institutions abroad. He was a visiting researcher at UNIDROIT from December 2007 to January 2008 and an independent researcher at the same institution from November to December 2005. In the summer of 2006, he took the summer course at The Hague Academy of International Law. In the summer of 2007, he took part in the intensive training offered by the International Training Centre for Human Rights and Peace Teaching in Strasbourg. Over the same summer, he also took the summer course of the Human Rights Institute in Strasbourg.
Le 10 mai 2019, en conclusion de la 98ème session du Conseil de Direction d’UNIDROIT, des membres du Groupe de travail sur le projet sur les Principes du droit des contrats de réassurance ont présenté les règles et commentaires finalisés des PRICL.
Arthur Hartkamp, Vice-Président d’UNIDROIT a présenté le panel, présidé par Anna Veneziano, Secrétaire Générale adjointe d’UNIDROIT. Helmut Heiss (Université de Zurich) a présenté aux membres du Conseil de Direction une introduction aux PRICL et leurlien avec les Principes d’UNIDROIT relatifs aux contrats du commerce international, suivie d’une présentation sur les “Devoirs” et les “Recours” dans les PRICL en comparaison avec les Principes d’UNIDROIT par Diana Cerini (Université Milan Bicocca). Les PRICL ont ensuite été examinés du point de vue d’un assureur direct (Lari Kuitunen, If P&C Insurance), et du point de vue d’un réassureur (Eberhard Witthoff, Munich Re Group).
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