Mr. Sébastien Jodoin, LL.M. (LSE), LL.B., B.C.L. (McGill) is a Legal Research Fellow with the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law in Montreal, Canada. Sébastien is also a member of the board of governors of the CISDL. At the CISDL, Sébastien is involved with the human rights and poverty eradication programme, the climate change and vulnerability law programme and the cross-cutting issues programme relating to international sustainable development law and governance. Sébastien’s recent work has focused on the principle of integration, human rights and adaptation to climate change and on the notion of crimes against future generations. Sébastien holds an LL.M. in public international law, with distinction, from the London School of Economics and Political Science as well as an LL.B. (common law degree) and a B.C.L. (civil law degree) from the Faculty of Law of McGill University, where he graduated with distinction and where he was a J.W. McConnell Scholar. He also studied, on exchange, in the D.E.A. international law programme at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Sébastien was recently awarded a John Peters Humphrey fellowship by the Canadian Council on International Law to undertake research on international human rights law and sustainable development. He has also been the recipient of an International Bar Association Fellowship in international criminal law and a Young Professionals Award from the Government of Canada. Sébastien previously worked in the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, The Netherlands as well as the Trial Chambers of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha, Tanzania. He has served as Executive Editor of the Québec International Law Review, as a research assistant to professors and researchers at McGill University and the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, as a legal researcher for the McGill Legal Clinic for the Special Court for Sierra Leone and as a legal, political and operational risk analyst for Aon Canada and Exclusive Analyst Ltd. Sébastien has been involved in a number of legal consulting, capacity-building and research projects with governments, NGOs and IGOs. In particular, he leads the CISDL’s research activities on Quebec and has participated in Parliamentary commission and public consultation sessions on Quebec’s sustainable development law. He has also written a number of legal and policy briefs commissioned by governments and NGOs. He regularly presents papers at academic and public policy conferences and lectures at learning courses and workshops, including those organized by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) and United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). He has led CISDL delegations to many international conferences and organised side-events at these conferences, most notably the UNCSD and the UNFCCC. Originally from Montreal, Canada, Sébastien has lived in England, The Netherlands, Tanzania, France and Belgium. He speaks English and French and has notions of Kiswahili and German. He is married to Sarah A. Mahoney, a theatre director.