Mr. Sébastien Jodoin, B.C.L., LL.B. (McGill), LL.M. (L.S.E.) is a Legal Research Fellow with the CISDL. He previously acted as the Manager of its Montreal secretariat. He holds a Master’s degree in public international law at the London School of Economics, graduating with Distinction. In addition, he holds degrees in Civil law and Common law from McGill University, where he was a J.W. McConnell Scholar. He has undertaken an academic exchange at the Centre de droit international public of the Université Libre de Bruxelles.

Mr. Jodoin has significant legal research and consulting experience in the academic, public and private sectors. As a recipient of a Government of Canada Young Professional Award, he is currently completing a clerkship under Judges Karin Hökborg and Dennis Byron at 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 Special Court for Sierra Leone and as a legal analyst for Aon Canada and Exclusive Analyst Ltd.

His research interests include sustainable development law and policy, human rights and sustainable development, comparative sustainable development law, international criminal law and international legal theory. His most recent work has focused on the principle of integration in sustainable development, environmental rights in a sustainable development perspective, the theory of sustainable development and sustainable development law and policy in developed countries. He has been involved in a number of legal consulting, capacity-building and research projects with governments and IGOs. He is the project leader for “Local Laws for the Global Commons: The Legal Implementation of Sustainable Development at the National Level” which seeks to build capacity in relation to sustainable development law and governance. He is also involved as a researcher and lecturer on the project “Sustainable Developments in Law and Policy on Climate Change,” which examines the intersections of climate change law with international trade, human rights and environmental law. He is the legal advisor to the project “Gender & International Law and Justice” which analyses the intersections of women’s rights with environment and development.

For the past two years, he has led the CISDL’s research activities on Québec and has participated in Parliamentary commission and public consultation sessions on Québec’s sustainable development law. He has also lectured and presented on sustainable development issues at a number of learning courses and workshops, including those organized by the UNCSD and UNFCCC. He speaks and writes fluent French and English and is currently learning German and Swahili.