Bernard Duhaime

Bernard Duhaime is Full Professor of International Law at the Faculty of Law and Political Science of the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM, Montreal, Canada), where he specializes in international human rights and international humanitarian law. He has published extensively and presented numerous conferences worldwide.

He is an associate research fellow at the Geneva Academy, member of the board of the University Network for Human rights and of McGill University’s Center for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, as well as member of the editorial board of the Torture Journal. He has served as a Member of the United Nations Working group on enforced or involuntary disappearances from 2014 to 2021. He has been a Fulbright Scholar, a Trudeau Foundation Fellow, and amongst other, a visiting scholar, professor or fellow at the European University Institute in Italy, Harvard University, University of Southern California and New York University in the United States, at the University of Victoria in Canada, at the University of San Martin and of Palermo in Argentina, at Université Paris 2, Université Aix Marseille and the René Cassin Foundation in France, as well as at the University Carlos III in Spain. He contributes to the defense and promotion of human rights since 1996 and is a senior counsel of the Quebec Bar, in Canada.