Mr. François Crépeau

François Crépeau is Full Professor and the Hans & Tamar Oppenheimer Chair in Public International Law, at the Faculty of Law of McGill University, as well as the Director of the McGill Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism. He presently is the 2016-2017 Robert F. Drinan, S.J., Visiting Professor of Human Rights Chair, at the Georgetown University Law Center, in Washington, DC. He is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants (2011-2017). In this capacity, he has conducted official visits to Albania, Angola, Tunisia, Turkey, Italy (two times), Greece (two times), Qatar, Sri Lanka, Malta, the European institutions in Brussels and Vienna, and will go to Australia in November 2016. He has also produced several thematic reports: the detention of migrants, the protection of migrants’ rights at the external borders of the European Union (two times), climate change and migration, global migration governance, labour exploitation of migrants, labour recruitment practices, on bilateral and regional trade agreements and on developing a global compact on migration. He is guest professor at the Université catholique de Louvain (2010-2018). He has given many conferences, published numerous articles, and written, edited or coedited nine books: Human Rights & Diverse Societies (2014), Terrorism, Law and Democracy: 10 Years after 9/11 – Terrorisme, Droit et Démocratie : 10 ans après le 11 septembre 2001 (2012), Recueil de droit des réfugiés: Instruments, Jurisprudences et Documents (The Refugee Law Reader) (1re éd. 2010, 2e éd. 2012), Les migrations internationales contemporaines – Une dynamique complexe au cœur de la globalisation (2009), Penser l'int