Professor Jacques Fremont

Biographical notes

Professor Jacques Fremont is Provost and Vice-rector - Academic Affairs at the University of Montreal since January 2007. He was previously Vice-rector – International and Graduate Studies since June 2005. He is also full professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Montreal; he has also been dean of this faculty between 2000 and 2004. Between 1994 and 1999, he was director of the Public Law Research Center. For many years, Professor Fremont has also been heavily involved in international cooperation projects in legal and judicial matters, especially in Asia and in Africa. He is also regularly called to act as expert in human rights, governance and democracy matters by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) as well as by the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie; over the years, he has also been involved as consultant in various World Bank financed development projects.

Professor Fremont obtained his law degree from Laval University in Quebec City. He then pursued graduate studies both at Osgoode Hall Law School (York University, Toronto) and at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Early in his career, he clerked for the Hon. Justice Yves Pratte of the Supreme Court of Canada and then acted as constitutional advisor to the Government of Quebec before starting his academic career in 1983. In 1992-93, he was Commissioner to the now defunct Law Reform Commission of Canada.

Over the years, Professor Fremont has authored numerous articles in constitutional law and public law in general. He regularly teaches courses in Canadian and comparative constitutional law as well as in Introduction to legal theory and philosophy and various other courses at the graduate level (masters and doctorate). In the past, he has been invited professor in Aix-en Provence (France), Beijing (China), Geneva (Switzerland), de Trento (Italia) and, in Canada, at Osgoode Hall Law School (York University, Toronto) as well as with the universities of Sherbrooke, Ottawa and UQAM (Montreal). Professor Fremont has also given many conferences in various countries around the world.

May 2008