William Schabas
Senior Fellow (1998-1999)

Areas of Specialization
Africa; Human rights; Ethnic conflict; Rule of law; United Nation

Project Focus
The Law of Genocide

Background
William Schabas is professor and chair of the department of law at the University of Quebec, Montreal, where he is a specialist in international human rights law, international criminal law, and minority rights. Before joining the university in 1991, Schabas spent nearly twenty years as a freelance journalist, translator, and speechwriter. Also since 1991, he has been an instructor with the Canadian Foreign Service Institute. Schabas serves as an assessor with the Quebec Human Rights Tribunal and participated in human rights fact-finding missions to Rwanda, Burundi, Sudan, South Africa, and Guyana on behalf of several international NGOs. He has held visiting professorships at the University of Montpellier and the University of Paris, Nanterre. Schabas has received such awards as the Canadian Business Press Editors Association's Kenneth R. Wilson Award for best editorial (1978, 1979), and the Fondation du Barreau du Quebec's prize for best monograph (1995). He has written numerous books and articles on legal issues, including The Abolition of the Death Penalty in International Law, International Human Rights Law and the Canadian Charter, and The Death Penalty as Cruel Treatment and Torture. Schabas holds an M.A. from the University of Toronto and an LL.D. from the University of Montreal.

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