Harith Al-Dabbagh specializes in comparative private law and private international law. Trained in comparative and civil law, his most recent work explores phenomena related to legal pluralism, notably on the interaction between religious and secular norms. He has published several works on these questions in both French and Arabic.

Harith Al-Dabbagh completed part of his legal training in Iraq (LL. B. 1996, LL. M. 1998) before pursuing graduate studies in France (DEA 2003, doctoral 2009) and in Canada (post-doctorate, 2010-2013). In the past, he was an assistant professor at the University of Mosul’s Faculty of Law and a contract lecturer-researcher at Université de Saint-Étienne (France). Before becoming a professor, he supervised a post-doctoral project on how Muslim family institutions are received in Canada and France and was a lecturer in the Université de Montréal’s Faculty of Law.