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1955-07-07
Article 1
A four-year Lebanese law program is created at the Faculty of Law in Beirut. To be admitted to this program, Lebanese students must hold a Lebanese high school diploma or equivalent.
Students who hold a law degree equivalent to that awarded by the Beirut Faculty of Law may study Lebanese law for one year, provided they hold a Lebanese high school diploma or equivalent. Students with a degree equivalent to that awarded by the Faculty of Law are exempt from the baccalaureate, provided they began their law studies before June 1953, but this exemption does not entitle them to practice law in Lebanon.
The above-mentioned equivalencies are determined by the equivalency commission established pursuant to Article 78 of Legislative Decree No. 26 of 18 January 1955.
Article 2
The Lebanese law degree is awarded to students who have passed the exams held at the end of each year to obtain the French law degree, provided that they have also passed the special annual exams on the following subjects:
In the first year: personal status (the family) - general rights - Lebanese constitutional rights - Lebanese financial systems.
In the second year: contract law - Lebanese administrative law - history of Islamic public law systems.
In the third year: economic development in the Middle East - fundamental principles of civil proceedings and judicial practice - Lebanese criminal law.
In the fourth year: personal status (matrimonial regimes - donations - conflicts of law) - Islamic Sharia - real estate laws and endowments. These courses are taught in Arabic, unless otherwise agreed by the Ministry of Education.
Article 3
During the first three years, examinations are oral in the subjects mentioned in the previous article and are written and oral during the fourth year.
Only students who have passed the French baccalaureate examination are allowed to take these examinations.
Any student who has enrolled for three years to take the Lebanese exam and fails loses their right to subsequently join the Faculty of Law. The exam regulations are generally subject to the regulations in force at the Faculty of Law.
Article 4
The Lebanese law study programs are established by mutual agreement between the Ministry of National Education and the law school administration.
Article 5
Lebanese law subjects and their equivalents in French law are taught in a single course, with the exception of subjects relating to Islamic Sharia and personal affairs (in the fourth year) and real estate law and endowments, which are taught in special courses independent of French law courses.
Article 6
Students authorized to study Lebanese law in one year, in accordance with the provisions of Article 1 of this decree, shall take their final examination on all the subjects listed in Article 2, according to the distribution indicated in Decree No. 5328 of 8 March 1946. The written exam they take covers two subjects from among those mentioned in the previous paragraph, which are selected by lottery ten days before the date of the exam. The other subjects are covered in an oral exam.
Article 7
Students who pass the examinations referred to in Article 2 shall obtain a degree in Lebanese law.
Article 8
The Minister of National Education and Fine Arts shall chair the Lebanese law examination board, which shall include a representative of the Ministry of Justice and the president of the Bar Association. The Minister may be represented by one of the judges attached to the Ministry of Justice to chair the committee, in which case the representative of the Ministry of Justice shall be replaced by a representative of the Ministry of National Education.
Article 9
This decree shall be published and communicated where necessary.
Beirut, 7 July 1955
Signed: Camille Chamoun
Published by the President of the Republic