Professor Rene Provost Lecture

Waltzing With al-Bashir:
Juggling Peace and Justice in Darfur

Professor Provost teaches and conducts research in public international law, international human rights law, and international humanitarian law. He is particularly interested in human rights, international criminal law, the law of armed conflict, and the intersection of national law and international law. He is the author of International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, the editor of State Responsibility in International Law, and a co-editor of International Law Chiefly As Applied and Interpreted in Canada. Professor Provost served as Law Clerk to Justice L'Heureux-Dubé of the Supreme Court of Canada. He was the President of the Société québécoise de droit international from 2002 to 2006 and is the founding Director of the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, created in the fall of 2005.