- The man of law is not confined to thinking about the articles of the law, but rather to think about building the state of law by drafting laws from a scientific point of view due to social studies, economic, civilizational, field, etc.
- In this brief definition, we refer to the most prominent Arab jurists who have taken upon themselves the task of enacting positive laws in the Arab countries, as he has harnessed his efforts and his life in this regard.
- Dr. Abdel Razzaq El Sanhoury - Egyptian Lawman - the second President of the Egyptian Council of State, the most important and famous jurists and his Arab scholars, and is the father of many Arab legal legislations.
He was born on August 11, 1895 in Alexandria and obtained his secondary certificate in 1913. He joined the Law School in Cairo where he obtained his BA in 1917 and was influenced by the thought of the 1919 Revolution. He was the Attorney General in 1920 and he traveled to Morocco to obtain his doctorate and return in 1926. And was elected as its dean in 1936.
- A new civil law was introduced and the government responded to him. He served four times as Minister of Education. He was appointed President of the Council of State from 1949 until 1954. He was known for his support for the July Revolution and participated in consultations with King Mohammed Farouq, Gamal Salem and Anwar Sadat. In the agricultural reform project and the request for democracy and the dissolution of the Council of Revolution leadership and the return of the army to the barracks, but the labor demonstrations destroyed his ideas.
He is a member of the Arabic Language Academy since 1946 and contributed to the development of many legal terms until he died on 21 July 1971.
His legal and intellectual works:
- There is no precise inventory of the legal and intellectual works of Dr. Al-Sanhoury, including but not limited to:
Civil Law Projects and Constitutions
1- "Egyptian Civil Law and its explanatory note and its annotations".
2- Iraqi civil law and its explanatory memorandum.
3. The Syrian Civil Code and its explanatory memorandum and the Evidence Law, including the rules of evidence and procedure.
4- The Constitution of the State of Kuwait and its laws: Commercial, Criminal, Criminal Procedures, Pleadings, Companies Law, Contracts of Contract, Agency for Tort Liability and All Branches, which were later collected in Kuwaiti Civil Law.
5- Libyan Civil Law and its explanatory memorandum.
6. Constitution of the State of Sudan.
7- The constitution of the United Arab Emirates. It also has other intellectual effects besides Arabic, the most important of which is the research it has presented on Islamic law in international conferences of comparative law, as well as the researches, studies, memos and reports that it has written and published outside of Egypt. , Especially what he published in Iraq while he was in it to develop civil law for it.