René Provost Ad.E. FRSC is the James McGill Professor of Justice Beyond the State at the Faculty of Law of McGill University. He holds an LL.B. from the Université de Montréal, an LL.M. from the University of California at Berkeley, and a D.Phil. from St Antony’s College, University of Oxford. He served as law clerk to Justice Claire L’Heureux-Dubé at the Supreme Court of Canada in 1989-1990. He joined the Faculty of Law of McGill University in 1994, where he was Associate Dean (Academic) from 2001 to 2003 and the founding Director of the McGill Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism from 2005 to 2010. Professor Provost teaches Public International Law, International Human Rights Law, International Humanitarian Law, International Environmental Law, Legal Anthropology, and various courses in legal theory. His latest book is Rebel Courts – The Administration of Justice by Armed Insurgents (Oxford University Press 2021), winner of the 2022 ICON-S Prize for Best Book in Public Law and the 2023 American Society of International Law Certificate of Merit for Creative Scholarship.