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 vingtième anniversaire de la Convention d’UNIDROIT sur les biens culturels volés ou illicitement exportés célébré le vendredi 8 mai 2015 aux Musées du Capitole à Rome a offert l’occasion d’évaluer l’importance, les traits distinctifs et les aspects opérationnels de cet instrument normatif ainsi que son interaction avec d’autres, notamment la Convention de l’UNESCO de 1970 concernant les mesures à prendre pour interdire et empêcher l’importation, l’exportation et le transfert de propriété illicites des biens culturels et la Directive européenne relative à la restitution de biens culturels ayant quitté illicitement le territoire d’un Etat membre de 2014. Alors que le trafic illicite des biens culturels est un fléau qui ne cesse de s’accroître et de prendre des formes nouvelles, son combat est devenu une priorité de la communauté internationale. Il était important de rappeler que l’essentiel des règles existe et que l’enjeu consiste à nous assurer que ces règles soient mieux connues et vigoureusement appliquées.