Fulbright Canada Lecture at USC

The Center on Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California recently welcomed Professor Bernard Duhaime as the 2011 Fulbright Canada Visiting Research Chair in Public Diplomacy. On Tuesday October 25 at 12 pm PST in SOS B40, Dr. Duhaime will deliver a public lecture entitled International Human Rights and Public Diplomacy . This lecture is part of the Center's signature Conversations in Public Diplomacy lecture series.

Bernard Duhaime is a professor of public international law at the Université de Québec à Montreal (UQAM). He teaches mainly international human rights law and specializes in the Inter-American System of Human Rights. Before joining the UQAM faculty in 2004, Bernard was staff attorney at the Secretariat of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States. He has also worked for, or collaborated with, the International Labour Organization, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, and Rights Democracy.

He is the co-author of the annual review of case law in the Inter-American Human Rights System in the Quebec Journal of International Law. He has contributed to books such as Human Rights Regimes in the Americas (UN University Press, 2010), L’exceptionnalisme Interaméricain des Droits de L’homme, (Pedonne, 2009), and Governing the Americas: Regional Institutions at the Crossroads (Lynne Rienner, 2007).

During the 2010-2011 academic year he was Visiting Fellow at the Human Rights Center at the Harvard University Law School where he completed a coursebook on Human Rights and the Americas with HRP's Executive Director James Cavallaro.