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DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nTuesday, October 04, 2022 12:30 pm to 2:0
 0 pm \n CG 265 \n Canadiana Gallery \n 14 Queen's Park Crescent West, Tor
 onto, ON M5S 3K9 \n\nSpeakers \nRené Provost \n\nDescription: \nNine Brit
 ish former ISIS fighters have been held without trial by Syrian Kurdish fo
 rces for several years. The UK, reluctant to repatriate its nationals, w
 ould prefer them to be tried “where the crimes were committed”, concretel
 y meaning prosecutions before the courts of the unrecognised administratio
 n of the Kurdish enclave in North-East Syria.  More recently, four Britis
 h men fighting in Ukraine were captured and prosecuted by the courts of th
 e People’s Republic of Donetsk, an unrecognised pro-Russian entity in eas
 tern Ukraine. The UK government slammed these trials as “a sham”, and has
  demanded the release of its nationals. There are many important differenc
 es between the wars in Syria and Ukraine, but both offer examples of the 
 administration of justice at the hand of unrecognised armed groups. The id
 ea of rebel courts challenges fundamental assumptions about the rule of la
 w, but arguably there are ways to reconcile the legal requirements of a f
 air trial with non-state justice. Indeed, international law provide the c
 onceptual toolbox that can allow distinctions to be made between rebel jus
 tice in Kurdish Syria and that before the courts of Donetsk in Ukraine.Key
 words: rebel courts, international law, rule of law, sovereignty, war 
 crimes, human rights, due process About Professor René ProvostRené Provo
 st holds a Bachelor of Laws from the Université de Montréal, a Master of 
 Laws from the University of California at Berkeley, and a D.Phil. from th
 e University of Oxford.  He served as law clerk to the Honourable Justice 
 Claire L’Heureux-Dubé at the Supreme Court of Canada in 1989-1990, and ta
 ught international law at Lehigh University in Pe\nsylvania in 1991.  He j
 oined the Faculty of Law of McGill University in 1994, first as a Boulton
  Fellow (1994-1995), then as Assistant Professor (1995-2001) Associate Pr
 ofessor (2001-2015), and Full Professor (from 2015).  He was the Associat
 e Dean (Academic) of the Faculty of Law from 2001 to 2003.  From 2005 to 2
 010 he was the founding Director of the McGill Centre for Human Rights and
  Legal Pluralism. Professor Provost teaches Public International Law, Int
 ernational Human Rights Law, International Humanitarian Law, Internation
 al Environmental Law, Legal Anthropology, and various courses in legal t
 heory.  He is the author of International Human Rights and Humanitarian La
 w (Cambridge University Press, 2002), and Rebel Courts – The Administrat
 ion of Justice by Armed insurgents (Oxford University Press 2021, winner 
 of the 2022 ICON-S Prize for Best Book in Public Law), the editor of Stat
 e Responsibility in International Law (Ashgate-Dartmouth, 2002), ng the 
 Legal Boundaries of Belonging: Religion and Multiculturalism from Israel t
 o Canada (Oxford University Press, 2015), Culture in the Domains of Law 
 (Cambridge University Press, 2017), and co-editor of International Law C
 hiefly as Applied and Interpreted in Canada, 7t Ed. (Emond Montgomery, 2
 014),  Confronting Genocide (Springer Verlag, 2011), Dialogues on Human
  Rights and Legal Pluralism (Springer Verlag, 2013).  He was the presiden
 t of the Société québécoise de droit international from 2002 to 2006. In 2
 015, he was named a Fellow by the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation for h
 is contribution to the advancement of knowledge in the social sciences and
  humanities. The Québec Bar Association appointed him senior counsel (Ad.E
 .) in 2017 in recognition of his exceptional contribution to the legal pro
 fession. In 2019, Professor Provost was elected a Fellow of the Royal Soc
 iety of Canada.This event is co-sponsored by the Centre for Criminology & 
 Sociolegal Studies and the Transnational Justice Project.A light lunch wil
 l be served at 12:00pm in the Centre Lounge, 2nd floor of the Canadiana G
 allery. Please note that the location does not have a working elevator. If
  you are a person with a disability and require accommodation, please con
 tact us at crimsl.communications@utoronto.ca and we will do our best to ma
 ke appropriate arrangements.  \n\nSponsors \nCentre for Criminology & Soci
 olegal Studies, Transnational Justice Project \nMap \n14 Queen's Park Cre
 scent West, Toronto, ON M5S 3K9 \n\nCategories \n Seminars \n\nAudiences
  \n CommunityFacultyGraduate Students
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LOCATION:14 Queen's Park Crescent West, Toronto, ON M5S 3K9
SUMMARY:Judging Foreign Fighters Before Non-State Courts
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