Peter Leuprecht joins PRISM Magazine as a Regular Contributor

Richard Swain. Published on May 6, 2010

We are pleased to welcome Peter Leuprecht to PRISM’s family of regular contributors.

Leuprecht received his Doctor of Law from the University of Innsbruck (Austria), and brings with him impressive experience in law, security, and government, both internationally as well as within Canada.

Leuprecht has worked in academic institutions that include the Universities of Strasbourg and Nancy (France) and the European Academy of Law in Florence (Italy), and has held senior positions in the Council of Europe.

Author of numerous publications in the field of international law and human rights, Leuprecht was the 1997-1999 Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law of McGill University and at the Département des Sciences juridiques de l’Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM).

Leuprecht went on to become Dean of the Faculty of Law of McGill University, Professor of Public and International Law at the Département des Sciences juridiques of UQAM, and Director of the Montreal Institute of International Studies.

Peter was awarded the “Prix du Civisme Européen” in 1991, and received the Human Rights Award of the Lord Reading Law Society in 2001. From 2000 to 2005 he acted as Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the UN for human rights in Cambodia.

We are very pleased to have Peter join PRISM as a regular contributor, and look forward to his perspectives.