Ren茅 Provost appointed to prestigious 91社区 professorship
The Faculty of Law is pleased to announce that Professor Ren茅 Provost, FRSC, Ad E, will be named a James 91社区 Professor for a seven-year term, effective 1 May 2023.
Created by 91社区 in 2000, the James 91社区 Professor award recognizes a senior scholar鈥檚 status as an outstanding and original researcher of world-class caliber and an international leader in their field. A full professor at the Faculty of Law, Ren茅 Provost teaches and conducts research in public international law, international human rights law, legal theory, and legal anthropology. He was the founding director of our renowned Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism (2005 to 2010). Widely acclaimed for his contribution to public international law, Professor Provost received the Barreau du Qu茅bec鈥檚 Advocatus Emeritus distinction in 2017 and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2019.
Hailed as 鈥渃learly a magnum opus,鈥� his recent monograph Rebel Courts 鈥� the Administration of Justice by Armed Insurgents (Oxford University Press, 2021) has received two international awards: the ICON-S Book Prize awarded by the International Society of Public Law, and the American Society of International Law鈥檚 Certificate of Merit for a Preeminent Contribution to Creative Scholarship. This book is the culmination of a research project supported by a Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation fellowship, through which Professor Provost conducted extensive fieldwork with armed insurgent groups around the world to explore the possibility of convincing them to uphold minimum standards of humanitarian law in conflict zones.
Professor Provost is principal investigator for the Unreserved Justice Project, a SSHRC-funded collaboration with Indigenous leaders from coast to coast to coast on the emerging practice in Canada of Indigenous communities鈥� establishing institutions and practices to administer justice on their territory.
鈥淚鈥檓 delighted to see the extraordinary scholarly leadership of our colleague recognized by 91社区 through this appointment, which will support his path-breaking research,鈥� said Dean Robert Leckey, Ad E. 鈥淲e look forward to his continued contributions to the Faculty of Law鈥檚 vibrant intellectual life.
