Faculty

PROFESSOR FRÉDÉRIC BACHAND
LL.B., Université de Montréal; LL.M., Cambridge University; Hague Academy of International Law; Barreau du Québec; Doctorat, Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II), Assistant Professor of Law, McGill University, Faculty of Law.
Professor Bachand recently received the very highest honors for the doctoral work he completed at the University of Paris. He has clerked for both the Québec Court of Appeal (Justice Jean-Louis Baudouin) and the Supreme Court of Canada (Justice Gérard V. La Forest). He has been associated with the law firm of Ogilvy Renault in Montréal. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Canadian Bar Association (International Law Section) and the Experts Council and the International Rules Drafting Committee of the Canadian Commercial Arbitration Centre. Resident Director of the Program.

PROFESSOR THOMAS E. CARBONNEAU
A.B. (Bowdoin College), M.A. (Oxon), M.A., J.D. (Virginia), LL.M., S.J.D. (Columbia), Samuel P. Orlando Distinguished Professor of Law, The Penn State Dickinson School of Law. Founder and Director of the Program.
Professor Carbonneau is a leading national and international authority on arbitration and ADR and international litigation.

PROFESSOR ARMAND DE MESTRAL
Jean Monnet Chair in the Law of International Economic Integration; Co-Director, Institute of European Studies (McGill and Université de Montreal). Author of books in both French and English on international trade law and on Canadian comparative and constitutional law and international law. Professor De Mestral has served on WTO and NAFTA dispute settlement and arbitral tribunals. Member, Order of Canada.

PROFESSOR FABIEN GÉLINAS
LL.B., LL.M., Université de Montréal; Université de Poitiers; École du Barreau (Montréal); École des Hautes Études Internationales (Paris); D. Phil., Oxford University, Associate Professor and Associate Dean of Law, McGill University.
Professor Gélinas was formerly General Counsel of the ICC International Court of Arbitration.  He participated in the work of the United Nations Commission for International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) on arbitration and conciliation and the work of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) toward the amendment of the 1961 European Convention on International Arbitration. He was Secretary to the ICC Commission for International Arbitration and Secretary to the Working Party which drafted the ICC ADR Rules and acted as advisor in the preparation of the European Commission's Report on ADR and SMEs.  He acted as expert on arbitration and ADR to the CIDA Russian Civil Code Project, the Intergovernmental Copyrights Committee of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). He was designated Appointing Authority by the Secretary General of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague and as international commercial arbitrator under the ICC Rules of Arbitration and the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules.  He is a member of the Arbitration Committee and Roster of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce.  

PROFESSOR VED P. NANDA
B.A., M.A., Punjab University, India; LL.M., Delhi University, India; LL.M., Northwestern, Thompson G. Marsh Professor of Law and Director of the International Legal Studies Program, University of Denver College of Law.
Professor Nanda was also a graduate fellow at Yale University (1962-65) and studied under the direction of the late Professor Myers McDougal and is a world authority on international law.

PROFESSOR GENEVIÈVE SAUMIER
B.Com., B.C.L., LL.B. (McGill), Ph.D. (Cambridge), Associate Professor of Law, McGill University.
Professor Saumier teaches international law, international commercial law, and civil liability at the McGill Law Faculty. She is the Canadian national correspondent to the UN Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL). She also serves as an expert advisor to the Québec and Canadian delegations to the Hague Conference on Private International Law. Current research projects include an analysis of the constitutional dimensions of private international law under the Québec Civil Code and an examination of judicial intervention in commercial arbitration in Canada.