François Crépeau

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François Crépeau (February 2015).

François Crépeau, OC FRSC (born April 14, 1960) is a Canadian lawyer and Full Professor at the Faculty of Law at McGill University, as well as a former director of the McGill Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism.

Professor Crépeau was the 2017–2018 International Francqui Professor Chair in Social Sciences at Université catholique de Louvain, in collaboration with six other Belgian universities.[1][2] He was the 2016–2017 Robert F. Drinan, S.J. Visiting professor of Human Rights Chair at Georgetown University (Washington, DC). He has been guest professor at the following institutions: Centre de recherches sur les droits de l’homme, Université de Paris Panthéon-Assas (2018), Institut international des droits de l’homme (Strasbourg) (2001, 2002, 2007, 2008, 2015) ; Graduate Institute for International Studies (IUHEI-Genève, 2007), Institut des hautes études internationales, Université de Paris II (2002), Université d’Auvergne-Clermont 1 (1997).

In 2017, he was appointed Officer of the Order of Canada for his research on migrant and refugee rights in international law.[3][4]

Education

Born in Montreal, Quebec, Crépeau received a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) and a Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) from McGill University and a Master's in Private Law from Bordeaux University. He later studied at Panthéon-Assas University where he earned his DEA in Legal Sociology and then went on to complete his PhD in law from Pantheon-Sorbonne University.[5]

Academic career

Since 2008, Crépeau has held the Hans & Tamar Oppenheimer Chair in Public International Law,[6] at the Faculty of Law of McGill University. He also directed the McGill Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism from 2015 to 2020.[7][5]

Before his tenure at McGill University, Crépeau was a professor at the Université de Montréal from 2001 to 2008, where he held of the Canada Research Chair in International Migration Law, and was the founding scientific director of the Centre d’études et de recherches internationales de l’Université de Montréal (CÉRIUM). From 1990 to 2001, he was a professor at the Université du Québec à Montréal.

He is also a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada,[8] and he was a Fellow of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation from 2008 to 2011.[9]

United Nations

From 2011 to 2017, he was named the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants. In this capacity, he has conducted official visits to Albania, Tunisia, Turkey, Italy, Greece, Qatar, Sri Lanka, Malta, the European institutions in Brussels and Vienna, Angola, Australia and Nauru.[10][5][11][12][13]

He has also produced several thematic reports: the detention of migrants, the protection of migrants’ rights at the external borders of the European Union,[14] climate change and migration, global migration governance,[15][16] labour exploitation of migrants, labour recruitment practices, trade agreements and migration. From 2014 to 2015, he served as the Chair of the Coordination Committee of the United Nations Human Rights Procedures.

References

  1. ^ "François Crépeau appointed International Francqui Professor", McGill University News and Events, August 31, 2017
  2. ^ "François Crépeau – International Francqui Professor – Inaugural Lecture | European Migration Law: policies and news in the field of asylum, immigration and free movement of people". www.europeanmigrationlaw.eu (in French). Retrieved May 17, 2021.
  3. ^ "François Crépeau appointed to the Order of Canada", McGill University News and Events, January 9, 2018.
  4. ^ "Judges, lawyers named to Order of Canada – The Lawyer's Daily". thelawyersdaily.ca. Retrieved May 17, 2021.
  5. ^ a b c ""Hans and Tamar Oppenheimer Chair in Public International Law"". Archived from the original on May 21, 2018. Retrieved May 9, 2018.
  6. ^ Pascal Zamprelli, "McGill welcomes François Crépeau", McGill Reporter, December 23, 2008.
  7. ^ "François Crépeau reappointed as Director of the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism", McGill University News and Events, June 1, 2018.
  8. ^ "François Crépeau made Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada", McGill University News and Events, September 6, 2012.
  9. ^ ""Fellows 2008: François Crépeau"". Archived from the original on May 29, 2019. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
  10. ^ Cynthia Lee, "Crépeau begins UN Special Rapporteur term", McGill Reporter, December 1, 2011.
  11. ^ "Conference Programme for the Twentieth Anniversary of the Mandate of the UN SpecialRapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants" (PDF). The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (UN Human Rights). November 12–13, 2019. Retrieved May 17, 2021.
  12. ^ "Migrants / Human rights: Official visit to Australia postponed due to protection concerns". The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights: News and Events. September 25, 2015. Retrieved May 17, 2021.
  13. ^ "Report of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants on his mission to Australia and the regional processing centres in Nauru (A/HRC/35/25/Add.3) – Australia". ReliefWeb. Retrieved May 18, 2021.
  14. ^ Crépeau, François (2013). "Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants, François Crépeau : regional study : management of the external borders of the European Union and its impact on the human rights of migrants". United Nations Digital Library. Retrieved May 18, 2021.
  15. ^ "Human rights of migrants – Report of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants (A/72/173) [EN/AR] – World". ReliefWeb. Retrieved May 18, 2021.
  16. ^ "UN's François Crépeau on the refugee crisis: 'Instead of resisting migration, let's organise it'". The Guardian. April 22, 2015. Retrieved May 18, 2021.

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