FRÉMONT, Jacques
Provost and Vice-Rector, Academic Affairs, Montreal University (Canada)
Session: Pluralism - Civil Rights and Minorities in Education
Monday, 16 November 2009
- 14.00-15.30
Professor Jacques Frémont has been Provost and Vice-Rector of Academic Affairs at the University of Montreal since January 2007. He was previously Vice-Rector of International and Graduate Studies from June 2005. He is also full Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Montreal and was Dean of this faculty from 2000 to 2004. Between 1994 and 1999, he was Director of the Public Law Research Center. For many years, Professor Frémont has also been heavily involved in international cooperation projects in legal and judicial matters, especially in Asia and in Africa. He is also regularly called to act as an expert in human rights, governance and democracy matters by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie. Over the years, he has also been involved as a consultant in various development projects financed by the World Bank.
Professor Frémont obtained his law degree from Laval University in Quebec City. He then pursued graduate studies both at Osgoode Hall Law School (York University,Toronto) and at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Early in his career, he clerked for the Hon. Justice Yves Pratte of the Supreme Court of Canada and then acted as constitutional advisor to the Government of Quebec before starting his academic career in 1983. In 1992-93, he was Commissioner to the now defunct Law Reform Commission of Canada.
Over the years, Professor Frémont has authored numerous articles in constitutional law and public law in general. He regularly teaches courses in Canadian and comparative constitutional law as well as an introduction to legal theory and philosophy and various other courses at graduate level (masters and doctorate). In the past, he has been Invited Professor in Aix-en-Provence (France), Beijing (China), Geneva (Switzerland), de Trento (Italia) and, in Canada, at Osgoode Hall Law School (York University, Toronto) and the universities of Sherbrooke, Ottawa and UQAM (Montreal). Professor Frémont has also given many conferences in various countries around the world. In 2009,he was made a Chevalier of the French Republic’s Ordre National des Palmes Académiques.
Professor Frémont obtained his law degree from Laval University in Quebec City. He then pursued graduate studies both at Osgoode Hall Law School (York University,Toronto) and at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Early in his career, he clerked for the Hon. Justice Yves Pratte of the Supreme Court of Canada and then acted as constitutional advisor to the Government of Quebec before starting his academic career in 1983. In 1992-93, he was Commissioner to the now defunct Law Reform Commission of Canada.
Over the years, Professor Frémont has authored numerous articles in constitutional law and public law in general. He regularly teaches courses in Canadian and comparative constitutional law as well as an introduction to legal theory and philosophy and various other courses at graduate level (masters and doctorate). In the past, he has been Invited Professor in Aix-en-Provence (France), Beijing (China), Geneva (Switzerland), de Trento (Italia) and, in Canada, at Osgoode Hall Law School (York University, Toronto) and the universities of Sherbrooke, Ottawa and UQAM (Montreal). Professor Frémont has also given many conferences in various countries around the world. In 2009,he was made a Chevalier of the French Republic’s Ordre National des Palmes Académiques.
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