Arkan Legal Consultants

Dispute Resolution, Regulatory and Government Affairs

Senior Counsel

• Associate Professor in the Criminal Law department, Faculty of Law, Kuwait University.
• Former Deputy Attorney General.
• Former Assistant Undersecretary for Legal Affairs at the Ministry of Defense.
• Former Chairman of the Complaints and Grievances Committee at the Capital Markets Authority.
• Former member of the National Committee for Combating Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing.
•  Former Assistant Secretary General at the Kuwait Anti-Corruption Authority.
• Former Minister of Justice.
• Former Minister of  Islamic Affairs.
• Former State Minister of  Integrity Promotion Affairs.

Arabic and English and French

• Member of the Kuwait Lawyers Association
• Faculty member at Kuwait University since 1999.
• Lawyer before the Court of Cassation and the Constitutional Court
• Member of the Committee of Experts at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
• Local arbitrator and mediator at the Kuwait Center for Commercial Arbitration at the Kuwait Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
• Member of the table of arbitrators at the court of arbitration of sport (CAS).
• Certified lecturer at the Kuwait Institute for Judicial and Legal Studies.
• Certified lecturer at the Public Institution for Social Security (annual program for recent law graduates).
• Certified lecturer at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

• PHD in Law with honors (first class honors) from the University of Poitiers - France - 1999
• Master of Advanced Studies in Criminal Law and Criminal Sciences - University of Poitiers - France - 1995.
• Bachelor of Law - Kuwait University (honors) - 1990