The launch of the first legal debate club activities at the Faculty of Law

Within the framework of the activities provided by the Scientific Committee of the Union of Law Students of Ain Shams, the Scientific Committee announced on Thursday the ninth of March the birth of the Faculty's Legal Debating Club, under the auspices of Prof. Mahmoud El-Meteini, President of Ain Shams University, Prof. Abdel Fattah Saoud, Vice President for Education and Student Affairs, Prof. Muhammad Safi, Dean of the Faculty, through a debate conducted in the Prof. Abd al-Ahad Jamal al-Din auditorium on the abolition of the death penalty, with the participation of eight students from the faculty.

The launch of this club comes to help students acquire the skills they need in legal pleadings and scientific debates, including the rules required for building the claim, interpreting it, defining it, establishing arguments for it in a scientific way, and refuting what is raised about the case in a scientific and systematic manner, as well as the skills of analysis and logical conclusion and building results on the correct premises.

The activities of the meeting opened with a speech from Prof. Muhammad Al-Shafi’i, Vice Dean for Education and Student Affairs, and a speech from Prof. Yassin El-Shazly, Vice Dean for Postgraduate Studies and Research Affairs. They welcomed the attendees, and mentioned in it an aspect of the college’s support for various activities that benefit students and enhance their scientific and professional skills. Among them are the skills of debate, especially since the pleading system before the courts is in fact a debate between two parties to prove or deny a claim, or to give weight to the meaning or interpretation of a legal text over another meaning or interpretation.

Then, the activities of the first debate took place in the club on the abolition of the death penalty between two teams of four students for each team: one is in favor and the other is against. At the end of the debate, the arbitration committee left to deliberate and announce the winning team for the best debate. The event concluded with awarding certificates of appreciation and shields to the participants in the debate.