Legal Affairs Administration
The General Administration of Legal Affairs reports directly to the University President. It is responsible for providing legal opinions and advice to all departments and administrations within the university regarding the proper application of regulations, bylaws, and instructions. This includes reviewing all contracts and agreements to ensure their legality, investigating alleged violations by faculty members, staff, and students, and representing the university in legal cases before the relevant authorities. The administration also reviews the minutes of college and deanship councils, the academic council, and various university committees, as well as preparing and reviewing administrative decisions, contracts, and other transactions referred to it for legal opinions.
The Legal Administration comprises consultants specializing in legal studies and regulations to carry out its assigned tasks in accordance with applicable laws and regulations. It also employs a number of administrative staff to handle administrative tasks.
Tasks of the Legal Affairs Office
- Preparing plans for legal activity and working to implement them in coordination with the relevant authorities after their approval.
- Preparing draft regulations, bylaws, and instructions related to university activities and submitting them to the university president for approval or guidance.
- Studying and reviewing the contracts that the university has with other parties, giving an opinion on them, and ensuring their compliance with regulations.
- Reviewing the regulations, agreements, and contracts submitted to the administration in terms of their procedures and wording.
- Providing legal opinions and advice regarding the activation of systems and regulations, how to implement and apply them, studying all problems, grievances, claims and demands referred to it, and participating in investigations related to that.
- Studying the minutes of the various councils and committees that are submitted to the administration and giving a systematic opinion regarding them.
- Providing the legal services required for real estate transactions, including lease and maintenance contracts, deeds, records, official ownership documents and related paperwork.
- Working on preparing and continuously updating legal guides for the university's systems and regulations.
- Conducting preliminary investigations revealed by oversight, or participating in those investigations revealed by oversight and those referred to it by the university president.
- Studying what is attributed to university staff regarding violations of regulations, rules, and instructions, and expressing the regulatory opinion regarding them, as well as studying grievances submitted by them or others.
- Studying the powers delegated by university officials to their subordinates, determining their legality, and reviewing the necessary administrative decisions in this regard.
- Representing the university in any cases brought against it or by it before courts or judicial and arbitration bodies of various types and levels, and preparing appropriate defense memoranda.
- Supervising the updating, organization, preservation, and use of technical capabilities in processing the systems, regulations, decisions, instructions, and data related to the university’s functions, and submitting them to the university president for final approval.
- Participating in committees related to the work of the administration, as directed by the university president.
- Studying draft resolutions and other matters referred to it by the university president, and providing a regulatory opinion on them.
- Organizing work within the department and preparing a work procedures manual that includes all departmental work.
- Organizing work within the department and preparing a work procedures manual that includes all departmental work.
- Preparing and developing the necessary forms for the workflow of the department.
- Establishing performance standards for all management-related activities, and continuously reviewing and developing them.
- Organizing and storing the administration's documents in a way that makes them easy to retrieve and use.
- Identifying the department's needs for human resources, equipment and materials and following up on their provision.
- Identifying the training needs of management staff and coordinating with relevant organizational units to meet those needs.
- Preparing periodic reports on the department’s activities, achievements, and suggestions for its development, and submitting them to the university president.
- Any other tasks within the scope of competence.
