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Bernard Duhaime is a Canadian professor of public international law at the University of Québec in Montreal (UQAM). He teaches mainly international human rights law and specializes on the Inter-American System on Human Rights. Before joining the faculty in 2004, Mr Duhaime was staff attorney at the Secretariat of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States.

Over the years, he has worked for, or collaborated with, organizations such as the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. He is the co-author of the yearly review of the case law of the Inter-American Human Rights System in the Quebec Journal of International Law, and has contributed to several books on human rights. At HRP, Bernard finalized a coursebook on Human Rights and the Americas with HRP’s former executive director, James Cavallaro.