François Crépeau, (born April 14, 1960) is a Canadian lawyer and Full Professor at the Faculty of Law at

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, as well as a former director of the McGill Centre for Human Rights and

Legal Pluralism Legal pluralism is the existence of multiple legal systems within one society and/or geographical area. History Church and State The notion of "parallel sovereignty" between premodern States and the Catholic Church was an accepted situation ...

. Professor Crépeau was the 2017–2018 International Francqui Professor Chair in Social Sciences at

Université catholique de Louvain UCLouvain (or Université catholique de Louvain , French for Catholic University of Louvain, officially in English the University of Louvain) is Belgium's largest French-speaking university and one of the oldest in Europe (originally establishe ...

, in collaboration with six other Belgian universities. He was the 2016–2017 Robert F. Drinan, S.J. Visiting professor of Human Rights Chair at

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(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

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for his research on migrant and refugee rights in

international law International law, also known as public international law and the law of nations, is the set of Rule of law, rules, norms, Customary law, legal customs and standards that State (polity), states and other actors feel an obligation to, and generall ...

Education

Born in

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, Quebec, Crépeau received a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) and a Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) from

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.

Academic career

Since 2008, Crépeau has held the Hans & Tamar Oppenheimer Chair in Public International Law, at the Faculty of Law of

. He also directed the McGill Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism from 2015 to 2020. Before his tenure at

, Crépeau was a professor at the

Université de Montréal The Université de Montréal (; UdeM; ) is a French-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university's main campus is located in the Côte-des-Neiges neighborhood of Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce on M ...

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

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. He is also a fellow of the

Royal Society of Canada The Royal Society of Canada (RSC; , SRC), also known as the Academies of Arts, Humanities, and Sciences of Canada (French: ''Académies des arts, des lettres et des sciences du Canada''), is the senior national, bilingual council of distinguishe ...

, and he was a Fellow of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation from 2008 to 2011.

United Nations

From 2011 to 2017, he was named the

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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

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and

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, Angola, Australia and Nauru. He has also produced several thematic reports: the detention of migrants, the protection of migrants’ rights at the external borders of the

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and migration, global migration governance, 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

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Crepeau, Francois 1960 births Living people United Nations special rapporteurs Experts on refugees Canadian legal scholars Academic staff of the McGill University Faculty of Law Officers of the Order of Canada Canadian officials of the United Nations