In the 2013 elections at International Academy of Comparative Law, which is based in Paris, Syed Imad-ud-Din Asad [LL.M. (Harvard); Advocate, High Court; Founder and Director, Center for Law and Policy; Founding Director and Associate Professor, UMT School of Law and Policy] has been elected an associate member--- the first from Pakistan--- of the Academy. The result was formally announced by Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Jürgen Basedow [Professor, University of Hamburg; Co-Director, Max Planck Institute of Comparative and International Private Law; Secretary General, International Academy of Comparative Law] in a letter dated 17 June 2013.
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