Join this talk by Professor René Provost exploring important lessons on the promises and limits of non-state justice in conflict zones, specifically looking at the Kurdish-dominated Democratic Autonomous Administration of North East Syria.
Zones of armed conflict are spaces of disorder, which state and non-state belligerents alike aim to curtail through law. Starting in 2014, the Kurdish-dominated Democratic Autonomous Administration of North East Syria established its own courts and enacted its own laws, in civil as well as criminal matters. For a decade, this unrecognised system of administration of justice has struggled to bring social order to this war-afflicted territory.
Meet our speaker and chair
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