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Bernard Duhaime, Advisory Board

Bernard Duhaime is Professor of International Law at the Faculty of Law and Political Science of the University of Quebec in Montreal where he teaches international human rights law and the Inter-American System of Protection of Human Rights. He also serves as a member of the Working group on enforced or involuntary disappearances reporting to the United Nations Human Rights Council. Bernard Duhaime is a Fellow of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation (2017-2021). Previously, Duhaime was a lawyer at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the OAS. In Quebec, Duhaime is a member of various research centers such as the Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche en développement international et société (UQAM), the Centre d’Étude sur le Droit International et la Mondialisation (UQAM), the Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire sur la diversité au Québec (UQAM) and the Centre d’Études Interaméricaines (Laval University). He founded the Clinique Internationale de Défense des Droits Humains de l’UQAM and was its first director. Duhaime has also been a visiting fellow at the University of Southern California (as Canada-US Fulbright Visiting Chair in Public Diplomacy), at the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School, at the European University Institute (Italy), and at the faculty of law of the University of Palermo in Argentina.