Event
F.R. Scott Lecture with François Crépeau
Wednesday, November 26, 2025 17:30to18:30
Maxwell Cohen Moot Court, New Chancellor Day Hall - 3644 rue Peel, Montreal, Quebec, H3A 1W9 CANADA
Price:
Free
The Friends of the McGill Libraries are delighted to present their annual hybrid F.R. Scott Lecture with McGill University Faculty of Law Professor Emeritus, François Crépeau, LLB/BCL'82. The event is the final lecture in a series celebrating UNESCO's inscription of the John Peters Humphrey Fonds in its Memory of the World International Register. The lecture will address the state of the human rights mechanisms of the United Nations. Professor Crépeau will present the UN human rights special procedures, and discuss their strengths and successes, and their limitations and failures. He will analyze the role of the special procedures alongside treaty bodies, commissions of inquiry and the universal periodic review, and he will conclude with an assessment of what the UN is aiming to do and what it cannot achieve.
This lecture will be presented primarily in English, with a portion delivered in French.
About the speaker:
François Crépeau, O.C., O.Q., F.R.S.C., Ad.E., is Emeritus Professor of Public International Law at McGill University's Faculty of Law. He held the Hans & Tamar Oppenheimer Chair (2009-2022) and directed the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism (2015-2020). A former UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants (2011-2017), he also chaired the UN Human Rights Procedures Coordination Committee. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Trudeau Foundation, and has received numerous honours, including the Order of Canada, the National Order of Quebec, and an honorary doctorate from Université de Clermont-Auvergne.
