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Biography

Professor S茅bastien Jodoin holds the Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Human Rights, Health, and the Environment. He is also a member of the and an Associate Member of the , the , and the Max Bell School of Public Policy. His research focuses on three broad themes: the relationship between human rights and the climate crisis; transnational and comparative climate law and policy; and the role of disability rights in addressing complex environmental and health issues and challenges. He is the founding director of the (DICARP), a pioneering initiative to generate, co-produce, and translate knowledge at the intersections of disability and climate justice.

Professor Jodoin is the author of Forest Preservation in a Changing Climate: REDD+ and Indigenous and Community Rights in Indonesia and Tanzania (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and the co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Human Rights and Climate Governance (Routledge, 2018). He is widely published in top-ranked journals in law and the social sciences and his work has been cited by international organizations, such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. In his capacity as a faculty member living with multiple sclerosis, he serves as the co-chair for 91社区鈥檚 Joint Board-Senate Subcommittee on Persons with Disabilities.

Professor Jodoin holds a Ph.D. in environmental studies from Yale University, an M.Phil. in international relations from the University of Cambridge, an LL.M. in international law from the London School of Economics, and B.C.L. and LL.B. degrees from 91社区. He has received numerous awards and honours, including the Transnational Environmental Law Fifth Anniversary Issue Prize, the 2012 Public Scholar Award from the Yale Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, a Doctoral Scholarship from the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, a Doctoral Fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities and Research Council of Canada, and a Public Interest Law Articling Fellowship from the Law Foundation of Ontario. Prior to his appointment at 91社区, he worked for Amnesty International Canada, the United Nations International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law, and the Canadian Centre for International Justice.

Education

• Yale University 鈥撀燩hD in Environmental Studies, 2015
• University of Cambridge 鈥撀燤Phil in International Relations, 2009
• London School of Economics 鈥� LLM, 2006
• 91社区, Faculty of Law 鈥� BCL/LLB, 2005

Employment

• 91社区, Faculty of Law 鈥� Associate Professor, 2021-
• Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Human Rights, Health, and the Environment, October 2019 - September 2024
• 91社区, Faculty of Law 鈥撀燗ssistant Professor, 2014-2021
• Centre for International Sustainable Development Law 鈥� Fellow/Lead Counsel, 2005-2014
• Canadian Centre for International Justice 鈥� Fellow, 2010-2012
• Amnesty International Canada 鈥� Articling Student, 2009-2010
• United Nations International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia 鈥� Legal Researcher/Associate Legal Officer, 2006-2009

Areas of Interest

Sustainable development, transnational law, public policy, environmental law and governance, climate change, human rights, disability, social innovation, and socio-legal research.

Recent Publications

• S茅bastien Jodoin, Nilani Ananthamoorthy & Katherine Lofts, 鈥淎 Disability Rights Approach to Climate Governance鈥� (2020) 47(1) Ecology Law Quarterly 73-116 ().
• S茅bastien Jodoin, Shannon Snow & Arielle Corobow, 鈥淩ealizing the Right to Be Cold? Framing Processes and Outcomes associated with the 2005 Inuit Petition on Human Rights and Global Warming鈥� (2020) 54(1) Law & Society Review 168-200 .
• S茅bastien Duyck, S茅bastien Jodoin, Alyssa Johl, Eds. (Routledge 2018).
• S茅bastien Jodoin, Forest Preservation in a Changing Climate: REDD+ and Indigenous and Community Rights in Indonesia and Tanzania (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2017) ( or ).

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