Event Date: April 3, 2012 - 11:30 am
Location: Social Sciences Building, 120 Universi

FRANÇOIS CRÉPEAU, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants.

Presented by the Human Rights Research and Education Centre and CIPS.
Free. Bilingual presentation. Registration is not required.

François Crépeau is United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants. He holds the Hans and Tamar Oppenheimer Chair in Public International Law and is scientific director of the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism at the Faculty of Law of McGill University. He has written or directed five books: Les migrations internationales contemporaines – Une dynamique complexe au cœur de la globalisation (2009), Penser l’international, Perspectives et contributions des sciences sociales (2007), Forced Migration and Global Processes – A View from Forced Migration Studies (2006), Mondialisation des échanges et fonctions de l’État (1997) and Droit d’asile: De l’hospitalité aux contrôles migratoires (1995). He is also a fellow of the Institute for Research in Public Policies (IRPP) and heads the “Mondialisation et droit international” collection at Éditions Bruylant-Larcier (Brussels).