Institute of Law: Al-Muqtafi Credits

Development of Al-Muqtafi started in 1995 and has to continue without stopping to ensure its topicality and maintenance. Establishing a common language between laws and computer staff was not easy. Teams of legal researchers and information technology engineers, and their management and administrative and financial support, undertook the project.

Supervision:
Camille Mansour, Director of IoL 1994-2000, initiator of the idea of a legal databank, and followed it throughout very closely with ideas and motivation.

Legal Consultancy:
Ghassan Faramand, Director of IoL 2000-2001, MA program professor of law

Information Technology:
Ghassan Abdullah, prepared the initial systems analysis study and plans for the legal databank and headed the working team of systems engineers.

Systems engineers:
Omar Sahili, Hani Boullata, Khaled Assali (outsourcing) Nihad Awad, Ahmad Hammo, Mustafa Dalal, Hanan Yaghi, Abderrahman Hamarsheh, Abed Khooli (Webmaster)

Legal Researchers:
Manal al-Jubeh, Ruba Shuaibi, Samer Faris, Murad Faris, Muein Barghouti, Mays Warrad, Hania Assali, Musa Abu Dheim, Ihab Samaan, Malak Musa, Hatem Sous, Rania Joza, Lana Irshaid, Baha' Saadi, Ruba Tawil, Ahmad Abu Zeineh, Mohammad Khader, Mustafa Abdul-Baqi, Mohammad Rabi, Tareq Touqan, Wafa Hamayel, Riyad Abu Haija, Hussein Abu Hannoud, Nicolas Jacobs, Stephanie David, Rana Bahu

Administration and Support staff:
Genia Helou, Wassim Aref, Bashar Qrei, Bashar Idkaidek, Suheil Batanje, Ala' Hamad, Rana Haj Yassin, Mansour Daraghmeh, Samar Barghouti, Rana Shamshoum, Samia Tawil, Nisreen Kharouf

Donors/Partners:
The Ford Foundation
The French Government
The World Bank, through PECDAR
The British Council
Konrad Adenauer Foundation
Consortium of European Universities
Royal Danish Representative Office in Ramallah
Royal Dutch Representative Office in Ramallah
USAID, through Rule of Law project executed by DPK