Addendum to the Biographical Note of
Dr. Yassin El-Ayouty, Esq.
April, 2006

1954 Chief of the African Division, Political Department, United Nations, from 1981-1983 (within my UN tenure of 32 years from 1954-1986)

1962 UN Spokesman in the Algerian-French War, Algeria, 1962.

1970 Lecturer on insurgency and counter-insurgency for the US armed forces, New York University Summer Institutes, New York City, during the Vietnam War (early 1970’s)

1971 Founder of the Peace Research Unit, Security Council Department, U.N., New York City, 1971-1973

1979 Unofficial interlocutor with the US Permanent Mission to the United Nations during the incarceration of the US diplomatic and consular stuff (the hostage Crisis) 1979-1981 during its phase before the International Court of Justice, the Hague. Focus: Interpretation of the Quran in favor of the U.S. position

1995 Member of the bars of the US Supreme Court and of its equivalent in Egypt (the Court of Cassation), as of 1995 and 2001 respectively

1996 Distinguished Visiting Professor, Public International Law, Nova Southeastern University, Shepard Broad Law Center (with emphasis on conflicts of law, diplomatic immunities, the International Criminal Court, international terrorism) from 1996-2000.

1997 Revisor (Arabic and English) for the official records of the UN Security Council As of 1997.

1998 Lecturer in both Arabic and English in the Arab world on issues relating to judicial independence and judicial corruption. As of 1998.

1999 Founder and President of SUNSGLOW-GLOBAL TRAINING IN THE RULE OF LAW, New York City, 1999.

1999 Author of an article entitled “International Terrorism Under The Law”, ILSA Journal of International and Comparative Law , Vol. 5, Spring 1999, No. 2, Nova Southeastern University, Shepard Broad. Law Center, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, p. 485-499.

2001 Author of Study jointly Commissioned by the World Bank and the Government of Yemen entitled “The Judiciary of the Republic of Yemen: A Study on Reform” (2001)

2002 Expert Witness at Family Court, New York City, N.Y. on Islamic Law (Sharia) in the Case of Al-Attrash v. Al-Attrash

2004 Presentor of the topics of “Islamic Jurisprudence and the U.S. Constitution”,at the Bar of the City of New York, 2004, and of “The Role of Islam in US National Security”, at the annual meeting of the International Law Section, the American Bar Association, 2006.

2004 Editor and Co-Author of the Book entitled Perspectives of 9/11 (Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 2004)

2004 Representative of the Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs, a non-governmental organization, Cairo, Egypt. (As of 2004)

2004 Special Counsel to the New York City law firm of Spector and Feldman wherein I handled cases relating to international sanctions and terrorism for the New York City law firms of Johnny Cochran ( a terrorist event in Egypt) and Patterson Belknap Webber and Tyler LLP (a suspected insurgency event in Iraq). The same applies to my capacity as defense counsel in a travel ban list case before the UN Security Council (2002-2004)

2006 Member of the Expert Panel Convened by UN Secretary-General, the Hon. Kofi Annan, on Reforming the Security Council Sanctions Regimes, As of Feb. 2006

2007 Presently engaged in the writing of a book to be entitled Islamic Law and Global Security (Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 2007)

2007 Adjunct Professor of Islamic Law, the Louis Stein Center for Law and Ethics, Fordham University School of Law. (As of January, 2007)

A Summary Biographical Note On
Dr. Yassin El-Ayouty, Esq.
July 2004

Dr. Yassin El-Ayouty, Esq. served the UN from 1954 to 1986 including being UN Spokesman during the Algerian war of independence, and later became chief of the Africa Division, and Secretary of the Council for Namibia, Department of Political Affairs and Decolonization. In 1964, he drafted the statute of the UN Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and later became its director of training. Since 1995, he is Special Counsel to the New York City law firm of Spector and Feldman.

Dr. El-Ayouty is Founder and President of SUNSGLOW  - Global Training in the Rule of Law - which is devoted to transnational judicial and legal training, especially in the developing world. He works in Arabic, English, French, and Spanish. Since April 2000 he had been designated legal advisor to the AFCAR FORUM (a voluntary grouping of the UN Membership of the Caribbean Community and the African Union). He is a member of several bars including the New Jersey Bar, the Bar of the U.S. Supreme Court, the Egyptian Bar and the Bar of the Egyptian Court of Cassation, (the Supreme Court of Egypt). He has assisted the New York City Department of Investigation and the New York City Board of Conflicts of Interest.

His teaching career began in Egypt in 1948 and was resumed in the U.S. in 1966 (including  the organization of international internships and clinics), with permission from the U.N..

Dr. El-Ayouty was a professor of political science at the graduate School of Arts and Science of St. John’s University, New York City (1966-1972) and at the State University of New York at Stony Brook (1972-1997) where he is now professor emeritus. From 1996 to 2000, he was distinguished visiting professor at the Shepard Broad Law School, Fort Lauderdale, Florida and simultaneously professor of law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York City (1996-2004).

His interest in globalization and terrorism and the law brought him to St. Francis College, New York City, to teach those subjects (1997-2004) and to edit a book on them (Perspectives of 9/11, Greenwood Press Group, 2004). During one year of that period he was the Volpe Visiting Professorship at that institution.

As of 2004, Dr. El-Ayouty has limited his teaching activities to the Cairo University School of Law, Cairo, Egypt, where he was appointed adjunct professor at Cairo Law in 2001. There he teaches public international law and its related subjects such as international criminal law, immunities and international humanitarian law in which he instructs large numbers of Arab students in both English and classic Arabic.

He is the author and editor of many articles and nine books, the titles of some of which are The UN and Decolonization; Africa and International Organization; The Organization of African Unity; Government Ethics and Law Enforcement (with a preface by the then New York City Mayor, Rudolph Giuliani); and Perspectives on 9/11 (2004).

He specializes in legal and judicial reform; diplomatic immunities; international sanctions; international criminal law; international humanitarian law; Islamic jurisprudence; and terrorism and the law, a subject on which he has been advising international intergovernmental organizations.

Dr. El-Ayouty, who came to the U.S. from Egypt in 1952 as a Fulbright scholar, has a Ph.D. from New York University in international law and international organization (1966) and a J.D. from Cardozo School of Law, New York City (1994). He is the recipient of the Founders Day Award for his Ph.D. work at New York University, and the Faculty Award for the “Best Independent/Supervised” legal writing from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (1994).