Curriculum Vitae Mr. Karim Benyekhlef
Karim Benyekhlef LL.D, is a Professor of Public Law at the Université de Montréal Faculty of Law, where he has been teaching since 1989. His areas of research include information technology and constitutional law. In 1997, Mr. Benyekhlef created and developed the CyberTribunal project, the first on-line electronic software system for conflict resolution by recourse combined with mediation and arbitration.
In addition, Mr. Benyekhlef has been a Canadian Barrister since 1985, and he worked for the federal Justice Department between 1986 and 1989. Since 1995, Mr. Benyekhlef has worked as editor of an electronic legal magazine, entitled Lex Electronica. He has published several works and articles on the laws governing information technologies and he has produced several reports on this topic for the Government of Canada and the Quebec Government.
Mr. Benyekhlef has participated in many international conferences, and served as a legal advisor to organizations such as the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA).