Rene Provost

McGill University - Faculty of Law

Associate Professor

3644 Peel Street

Montreal H3A 1W9, Quebec H3A 1W9

Canada

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Scholarly Papers (28)

1.

Asymmetrical Reciprocity and Compliance with the Laws of War

Benjamin Perrin ed., Modern Warfare: Armed Groups, Private Militaries, Humanitarian Organizations, and the Law (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2012) 17-41
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 01 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 25 Jun 2012
Rene Provost
McGill University - Faculty of Law
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Legal Pluralism, Humanitarian Law, Reciprocity, Compliance, Internal Armed Conflicts

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Introduction: State Responsibility in International Law

State Responsibility in International Law, René Provost, ed., Ashgate, 2002
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 18 Jan 2013
Rene Provost
McGill University - Faculty of Law
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law, international, responsibility

The International Committee of the Red Widget? The Diversity Debate and International Humanitarian Law

Israel Law Review, Vol. 40, No. 2, pp. 614-647, 2007, Hebrew University International Law Research Paper No. 21-07
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 03 Dec 2007
Rene Provost
McGill University - Faculty of Law
Downloads 248 (249,080)
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red cross, committe, international humanitarian law, human rights, cultural diversity, cultural particularism, law of war

The International Committee of the Red Widget? The Diversity Debate and International Humanitarian Law

Israel Law Review, March 2007
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 30 Aug 2006
Rene Provost
McGill University - Faculty of Law
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Law, international, humanitarian, culture, diversity, pluralism, war

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International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law, 2002
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 18 Jan 2013
Rene Provost
McGill University - Faculty of Law
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Law, Human, Rights, Humanitarian, International, War, Norms, Reciprocity, Indeterminacy

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FARC Justice: Rebel Rule of Law

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 02 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 19 Apr 2019
Rene Provost
McGill University - Faculty of Law
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Rule of Law, Rebels, Justice, Governance, Law, International, Colombia, Humanitarian Law, Human Rights

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Constitutional Canaries and the Elusive Quest to Legitimize Security Detentions in Canada

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law, Vol. 40, pp. 531-560, 2009
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 23 Apr 2009
Maureen T. Duffy and Rene Provost
McGill Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluraliem and McGill University - Faculty of Law
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terrorism, human rights, Canada, detention, security, law

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Dialogues on Human Rights and Legal Pluralism

René Provost & Colleen Sheppard eds, Dialogues on Human Rights and Legal Pluralism (Springer, 2012)
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 17 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 18 Jan 2013
Rene Provost and Colleen Sheppard
McGill University - Faculty of Law and McGill University, Faculty of Law
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Human Rights, Legal Pluralism, Universality, Globalism, Communities

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Teetering on the Edge of Legal Nihilism: Russia and the Evolving European Human Rights Regime

Human Rights Quarterly (2015, Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 77 Posted: 22 Jun 2013 Last Revised: 28 Feb 2015
Rene Provost
McGill University - Faculty of Law
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Human Rights, Russia, Council of Europe, Court, Strasbourg

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Starvation as a Weapon: Legal Implications of the United Nations Food Blockade Against Iraq and Kuwait

Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, Vol. 30, p. 577, 1992
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 24 Jan 2009
Rene Provost
McGill University - Faculty of Law
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Law, International, Humanitarian, War, Starvation, Iraq, United Nations

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Magic and Modernity in Tintin au Congo (1930) and the Sierra Leone Special Court

(2013) 16(1) Law, Text, Culture 183-216
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 25 Jun 2012 Last Revised: 25 Mar 2013
Rene Provost
McGill University - Faculty of Law
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Law, Culture, Magic, International, Tintin, Sierra Leone, War Crimes

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Accountability for International Crimes within Insurgent Groups

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 12 Dec 2015 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2019
Rene Provost
McGill University - Faculty of Law
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law, war, insurgents, tribunal, humanitarian law, human rights, rule of law

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Judging in Splendid Isolation

American Journal of Comparative Law, Vol. 56, No. 1, 2008
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 07 Sep 2008
Rene Provost
McGill University - Faculty of Law
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Law, Comparative, International, Judges, Canada

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From Violence to Life: Children Born of War and Constructions of Victimhood

New York University Journal of International Law and Politics (JILP), Vol. 53, No. 1, 2020
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 07 Nov 2019 Last Revised: 22 Jan 2021
Rene Provost and Myriam Denov
McGill University - Faculty of Law and McGill University
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Children born of war, victim, international criminal law, wrongful life

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Let Us Compare Mythologies

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 18 Jan 2013
Caylee Hong and Rene Provost
McGill University - Faculty of Law and McGill University - Faculty of Law
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Law, religion, multiculturalism, culture, human, rights, Canada, Irsael

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Interpretation in International Law as a Transcultural Project

Andrea Bianchi, Daniel Peat & Matthew Windsor eds, Interpretation in International Law (OUP, Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 25 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 03 Apr 2014
Rene Provost
McGill University - Faculty of Law
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interpretation, international law, pluralism, culture, Sierra Leone, cannibalism

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Cannibal Laws

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 17 Mar 2015
Rene Provost
McGill University - Faculty of Law
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Law, anthropology, cannibalism, international, crime, Sierra Leone, pluralism, metaphor

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Centaur Jurisprudence: Culture Before the Law

René Provost ed., Culture in the Domains of Law (Cambridge University Press), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 14 Feb 2016
Rene Provost
McGill University - Faculty of Law
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Law, Culture, Anthropology, Pluralism, Jurisprudence, Diversity, Courts, ADR

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Child Soldiers, Direct Targeting, Combatants, Civilians, Direct Participation in Hostilities, International Humanitarian law, Law of Armed Conflict, Means and Measures of War

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Rebel Courts - The Administration of Justice by Armed Insurgents - Introduction

Rebel Courts - The Administration of Justice by Armed Insurgents (Oxford University Press 2021)
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 22 Dec 2021
Rene Provost
McGill University - Faculty of Law
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Justice, Non-State Armed Groups, Courts, International Humanitarian Law, Human Rights, Governance

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Moving from Repression to Prevention of Genocide

Confronting Genocide, René Provost & Payam Akhavan, eds., Springer 2010
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 18 Jan 2013
Payam Akhavan and Rene Provost
McGill University and McGill University - Faculty of Law
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genocide, prevention, law, international, Darfur, Rwanda

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Legal Pluralism and War

McGill SGI Research Papers in Business, Finance, Law and Society Research Paper No. 2024-06
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 29 Mar 2024
Rene Provost
McGill University - Faculty of Law
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war, legal pluralism, humanitarian law, prisoners of war, courts

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E Pluribus Unum – Bhinneka Tunggal Ika? Universal Human Rights and the Fragmentation of International Law

Dialogues on Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, René Provost & Colleen Sheppard, eds., Springer 2012
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 18 Jan 2013
United Nations - Office of Legal Affairs, McGill University - Faculty of Law and McGill University - Faculty of Law
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law, human, rights, universality, unity, fragmentation

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The Rule of Law with Indigenous Characteristics

McGill SGI Research Papers in Business, Finance, Law and Society Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 25 Apr 2024
Rene Provost
McGill University - Faculty of Law
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Rule of Law, Indigenous Law, Legal Pluralism, Canada, constitutional law

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Ni máquinas de guerra, ni puras víctimas: Legalidad de los ataques contra los niños de las FARC según el Derecho Internacional humanitario (Neither War Machines nor Pure Victims: Direct Targeting of FARC Child Soldiers Under International Humanitarian Law)

McGill SGI Research Papers in Business, Finance, Law and Society Research Paper No. 2023-22
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 28 Apr 2023 Last Revised: 24 Jan 2024
Rene Provost
McGill University - Faculty of Law
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Child Soldiers, Direct Targeting, International Humanitarian Law, FARC, Colombia, War, Direct Participation in Hostilities

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Terrorism, Human Rights, Canada, Inter-American Human Rights System, Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

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Collateral Kids: Weighing the Lives of Children in Targeting

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 09 May 2023
Vishakha Wijenayake and Rene Provost
McGill University, Faculty of Law and McGill University - Faculty of Law
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Children, Targeting, Proportionality, International Humanitarian Law, Morality in War

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The Move to Substantive Equality in International Humanitarian Law: A Rejoinder to Marco Sassòli and Yuval Shany

International Review of the Red Cross, Vol. 93, No. 882, June 2011
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 18 Jan 2013
Rene Provost
McGill University - Faculty of Law
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law, international, humanitarian, insurgent, equality

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Fact.

McGill Companion to Law, June 2015
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 05 Nov 2015
Rene Provost
McGill University - Faculty of Law
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Fact, law, civil law, common law

Other Papers (2)

Total Downloads: 177
1.

Targeting Child Soldiers

Number of pages: 6 Posted: 28 Mar 2017
Rene Provost
McGill University - Faculty of Law
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child soldier, targeting, direct participation, international humanitarian law

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Putting the ‘Con’ Back in the Constitution

Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 14 Nov 2016
Rene Provost
McGill University - Faculty of Law
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Prison, Gang, Violence, Governance, Economics, Law