Frederic Megret

Frédéric Mégret is the Hans & Tamar Oppenheimer Chair in Public International Law at the Faculty of Law, McGill University. He is a senior fellow at the University of Melbourne, a visiting Professor at Sciences Po Paris and a permanent visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law, Copenhagen University. Previously he was a McGill University William Dawson Scholar from 2015 to 2023, and the holder of the Canada Research Chair on the Law of Human Rights and Legal Pluralism from 2006 to 2015. From 2021 to 2024 he co-directed the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism.

Mégret is the author of The New Interference in Sovereign Affairs and the Discursive Economy of International Law (Brill) and is currently co-authoring a book on Diasporas and the Making of Transnational Law with Larissa van den Herik (Leiden University). He is the co-editor with Vincent Chapaux and Usha Natarajan of The Routledge Handbook on International Law and Anthropocentrism (Routledge, 2023); with Philip Alston of The United Nations and Human Rights: A Critical Appraisal (Oxford University Press, 2020); with Immi Tallgren of The Dawn of a Discipline: International Criminal Justice and its Early Exponents (Cambridge University Press, 2020), and, with Kevin Jon Heller, Sarah Nouwen, Jens David Ohlin and Darryl Robinson of The Oxford Handbook of International Criminal Law (Oxford University Press, 2020).