WINNIPEG, MB – The University of Winnipeg and the Trudeau Foundation present the Trudeau Lecture with Lauréat Trudeau Fellow François Crépeau.
His lecture, which is free and open to the public, will focus on Dealing with Migrations as a Test for Our Democracies and takes place:
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at 7:00 pm
Convocation Hall, 2nd floor Wesley Hall
515 Portage Ave.
Reception to follow
Crépeau is the Hans and Tamar Oppenheimer Professor of International Public Law at the Faculty of Law at McGill University. The focus of his current research includes migration control mechanisms, the rights of foreigners, the conceptualization of security as it applies to migrants,and the Rule of Law in the face of globalization.
Canadian Human Rights Foundation
Crépeau has published numerous articles and written or directed five books. He heads the “Mondialisation et droit international” collection at Éditions Bruylant (Brussels), is a member of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO, and a Fellow of the Institute for Research in Public Policies (IRPP). He also sits on the Barreau du Quebec’s Committee on Human Rights and Committee on Citizenship and Immigration.
He has served as vice-president of the Canadian Human Rights Foundation (now Equitas) and director of the Revue québécoise de droit international. He participated in observer missions in the occupied Palestinian territories and in El Salvador.
The Trudeau Lectures are an annual series of public lectures organized in collaboration with Canadian universities and institutions of higher learning. Trudeau Fellows lecture’s highlight their ideas, their research and their role as public intellectuals. Each year, the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation selects five Fellows who have contributed to the enhancement of knowledge and the advancement of society, through leading-edge research, creative work and commitment to societal debates on major issues of public policy.
