Key qualifications

Mr. Ibrahim Taouti, Bachelor and Master in Law, has been a lawyer for 28 years. He is registered at the Algerian Supreme Court and State Council and works also at the Danish Lawfirm Lawhouse.dk. He has also successively worked as general manager, and head of human resources and then of accounting and finances in a State company. Before this management experience he had worked as head of the litigation service in the legal department in a State bank; he had also taught banking techniques.

Ibrahim has collaborated with the legal department of Novo Nordisk in Denmark for eighteen months on the Equal Opportunities project. Ibrahim worked at Lawhouse.dk more than 4 years where he deals with human rights issues in the Arab and Muslim countries, and is particularly interested in the social responsibility of economic enterprises.
Since 1989 Ibrahim has been involved with various human rights pro bono activities with NGOs and has been writing on Business Law, on Human Rights, on international and Algerian internal penal laws, as well as on social and environmental responsibility of companies from an Islamic perspective. He writes the Report on "El Qayda's First Trial in Spain: Tayseer Alony", 250 p. Publisher: Arab Commission for Human Rights.

Education

1. Sep. 89 – Jun. 91 University of Algiers, Law Faculty Masters in Contract Law
   Courses included civil law, internal and international commercial law, industrial property law, mediation, etc. Project Thesis on ‘Mudharaba Contract Law’.

2. Sep. 71 – Jun. 75 University of Algiers, Law Faculty Bachelor in Law (4 years).
   Courses included private, public, administrative and penal laws, and
   international law (public and private).

1. July 2005, Eurocentres, Brighton (UK)

English language course.

2. Mar. 04 – Apr. 04 Berlitz Centre, Copenhagen

English language course.

3. 03-04 Dec. 1999 ‘Post Tenebras Jus’ Conference, Geneva

International penal law, Rights of defence and protection of victims.

4. 1974 –1975 Académie d’Alger, Algiers

Diplomas I, II and III in Banking procedures.

5. May –July 73 Académie d’Alger, Algiers

Banking credits.

6. Apr. –May 65 Ministry of Education , Algiers

7. Psycho-pedagogy : the art of teaching.

Work experience

Jul. 79 –Dec. 02 And from January 2007
Practised as lawyer registered at the Algerian Supreme Court and State Council. Acquired a thorough expertise in Algerian internal fiscal, penal, administrative, civil, commercial and financial laws, as well as robust court experience. Gained expertise in UN human rights mechanisms and international law.

Freelance

Jul. 04 –Jul. 05 Lawhouse.dk

Work with Sune Skadegaard, the Partner of Lawhouse.dk, on many matters as for example ‘Discrimination in the Workplace in Denmark’ (April 2005) or ‘Research on Free, Prior and Informed Consent of Indigenous Peoples’ (World Bank, June 2005).

Jan. 03 –Jun. 04 Novo Nordisk
Worked with the legal department for eighteen months on the Equal Opportunities project. Carried out legal research on internal human rights laws and their relations with international human rights laws in 12 countries (Algeria, Belgium, Brazil, Egypt, France, Germany, Japan, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Spain, South Africa and Switzerland).

Management

Jun. 77 –May. 79 Office National des Aliments et du Bétail (ONAB)
Directed the Finance and Accounting department of the states agro-industrial firm ONAB. Participated in the negotiations of all internal and international contracts on behalf of the firm.
Jun. 75 –May. 77 Director of general administration (ONAB)
May. 73 –May 75 Banque Nationale d’Algérie (BNA)
Lecturer in Banking Credits.
Jul. 69 –Jan 73 Crédit Populaire d’Algérie (CPA)
Head of litigations service in the legal department.

Public administration
1967 –1969 Academy of Oran, Ministry of National Education
Member of human resources department.
May 65 –Apr. 66 Central Direction of Military Materiel, Ministry of National Defence
Member of materials resources department
Oct 64 –Apr. 65 Direction of Personnel, Ministry of National Orientation
Member of accounting department

Conferences Attended (partial list)
In Arabic

25-27 February 2004, Manama (Bahrain), The Principle of Universal Jurisdiction and Impunity, organised by the Bahrain Organisation for Human Rights and the Arab Commission of Human Rights, under the auspices of the Bahraini Ministry of Labour.

In French

25-26 October 2003, Malmoe (Sweden), The Judicial Aspects of the Algerian Crisis 1988-2003, organised by Justitia Universalis.

9-10 January 2003, Paris (France), The Effect of 11 September on the Laws Relating to Terrorism and Immigration in Francophone Countries, organised by the Arab Commission of Human Rights.

1-2 November 1999, London (UK), Torture and the Judicial Breakdown in Algeria, organised by the National Union of Algerian Lawyers, the Algerian League for the Defence of Human Rights, and the British Parliamentary Committee for Human Rights.

Publications (partial list)

In Arabic

The Taysir Alony' case in Madrid (Spanish Cell of Al Qaeda), Eurabe Editions, Paris, April 2006. Topic: This human rights book analyzes the security methodology adopted in handling terrorism files and reflects the miserable influences of exceptional laws on democracy and peoples' dignity in the north and south regions

The Future of Human Rights: Impunity and International Law; Al Ahali Publishers, Damascus, 2005

‘Torture in Algerian law and Judicial System’, in An Inquiry into Algerian Torture, Forum of North-African Researchers (editor), Hoggar Publishers, Geneva 2003.

A Short Encyclopaedia on Human Rights : Fundamental Texts & Reflections, Al Ahali Publishers, Damascus, and Arab Commission of Human Rights, Paris, 2002, Vol. II.

‘Violations of the Rights of the Defence’, Algeria-Today daily, 22 March 1992.

‘Tax, Justice, and Human Rights’, Eshaab daily, 20 April 1991.

In English

The Concordance between the Universal Declaration of the Human Rights and the Holy Qur'an, wensite Lawhouse.biz, 2006

In French

• Genesis of the Algerian Tax System, El-Watan Supplément Economique of And Le Quotidien d'Oran, Rubrique: An Other Perspective, November 2007
• Good Governance: the Danish Lesson, Le Maghreb 31 October and 1st November 2007;
• The Exequatur of International Judgments and Sentences in Algerian Law, L'Actuel International, Number 84 of October 2007;
• The Tax of the Responsible Corporates, Le Maghreb 9 and 10 September 2007;
• The Conditions of the CSR of the Algerian SMCs, Le Maghreb, 4 June 2007 and El Watan, 11 June 2007;
• The International NGO: A critical Perspective, Géostratégiques, Institut International d'études stratégiques, Paris, No. 16, May 2007;

• The CSR of the Liberaly Professions and the fight against Corruption and Bribery, El Watan, 22 and 23 April 2007

• Good Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility of the Islamic Banks: The Unfinished Work, Website www.lawhouse.biz , March 2006;

• CSR of the Algerian Corporates, Le Quotidien d’Oran, 3 November 2004 ;

• The Basic Rights of trade-union organization and negotiation: Does the law wound the hand which handles it like a knife? Le Quotidien d'Oran, 19 November 2003 ;

• The State of Emergency in Algerian Internal Law and in International Law, El Watan daily, 14, 15 and 16 September 2003;