Adi Bitar

Adi Bitar (Adi Al Bitar, 1924 to 1973) was a Palestinian-Jordanian judge, legal adviser and lawyer who practised across the Middle East during the middle of the twentieth century. His best known contribution to law is that he authored the Constitution of the United Arab Emirates, the founding charter of the federation of emirates. Because the Emirates were a new state in the early 1970s, the drafting of its constitution was a task of institution building, and Bitar is remembered in the atlas as a regional legal draftsman whose work shaped the basic law of a modern country rather than as a judge known for particular rulings. He died in 1973 at the age of 48.