The Visionary
Who is
Youssef Sader?
Legal Visionary & Publisher · 1870–1953
Youssef Sader (1870–1953) was a judge at the Ottoman Court of Beirut and a pioneering legal publisher. In 1921, he founded the first legal periodical in the Arab world. In 1926, he became the first to publish the Lebanese Constitution, the charter that established the first republic in the Middle East. He held a resolute belief that access to the law is the duty of every citizen, and the foundation of a just society.
