Chair Members

Holder of the Chair

François Crépeau holds the Hans & Tamar Oppenheimer Chair in Public International Law and is Hans & Tamar Professor in International Law at the Faculty of Law of McGill University.

Coordinator

Celina Kilgallen-Asencio coordinates the Hans & Tamar Oppenheimer Chair in Public International Law.

Researchers

Idil Atak holds a LL.D. in international law (University of Montreal, 2010) and is a sessional lecturer at the University of Montreal. She studies the rights of irregular migrants in Europe.

Janet Cleveland is a psychologist, legal scholar and anthropologist who studies various aspects of the refugee status determination process in Canada, the situation of psychologically vulnerable persons, and the detention of asylum seekers.

Djibril Diop is a sessional lecturer at the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Development, at the University of Montreal.

Estibaliz Jimenez is guest professor at the School of Criminology at the University of Montreal. She also is associate professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Sherbrooke.

Ekaterina Krivenko Yahyaoui is a former post-PhD student at the Centre d’études et de recherches internationales of the University of Montreal (2008-2009).

Amissi Manirabona is Aisenstadt‏ Fellow with the Centre for human Rights and Legal Pluralism. His doctoral research explores the extraterritorial applicability of Canadian criminal law to environmental crimes that occur abroad.

Delphine Nakache is professor at the School of International Development and Globalisation of the University of Ottawa. She teaches international public law and immigration and refugee law.

Victor Piché is a sociologist and a demographer specialized in international migrations. Honorary Professor of the University of Montreal, he now works specifically on migrant workers’ rights.

Amandine Scherrer is a member of the Managing Editorial Board of the « International Political Sociology » Review (Blackwell Publishers), and member of the editorial team of the review « Cultures et Conflits. Sociologie politique de l’International » (Harmattan, Paris).

Students

Diana Draganova, L.L.M. (Sofia University, Bulgarian Law and International Relations), L.L.B. (Université de Montréal), L.L.M. in International Law (Université de Montréal), has submitted her master’s thesis on the State’s involvement in the electoral process, as a manifestation of its sovereignty, which is intimately connected to the definition of the modern democratic State and the supervisory functions exercised by the European Court of Human Rights.

Anne-Claire Gayet holds a Masters in International Studies and is candidate to the LLM at Université de Montréal.

Louis-Philippe Jannard holds an LLM in International Law from University of Montreal (2009). His thesis explores the North-American policies against human trafficking and their impacts on victims.

Noura Karazivan is a professor at the University of Montreal. She is doing research of the territorial reach on the protection of human rights in Canada.

Karine Mac Allister is a PhD student at the University of Montreal. She is doing research on the international standards applicable to population transfers.

Anna-Lise Purkey is a PhD student at McGill University. She works on the role of refugees in the diverse post-conflict transitional justice processes.