Biography

Universite du Quebec a Montreal - Law

Director, Department of Law at University of Quebec at Montreal
Research
Bruce
Broomhall
Montreal, Canada Area
Bruce Broomhall is a professor and director of the Department of Law at the University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM). He is currently researching resource conflicts under international law, focussing on the problem of illicit, conflict-fuelling natural resource economies. This focus forms part of larger research interests related to the establishment of an effective and legitimate system of international justice, including universal jurisdiction, the International Criminal Court, the role of international justice within the existing framework for managing international peace and security, the impact of illegal war economies on human security, the legal responsibilities of business actors in conflict settings, and the role of children in the transitional justice process. He teaches mainly in international and transnational criminal law. Prior to joining UQAM, Professor Broomhall directed programs on international criminal justice at the Open Society Justice Initiative ( Budapest ) and the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights ( New York ). In these capacities he promoted the ratification of the Rome Statute of the ICC, the documentation and prosecution of international crimes and the advancement of the contemporary system of international justice by coordinating advocacy, training, research and other collaboration in a range of countries including Cambodia , the Caucasus, Colombia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo . He holds a Ph.D. in international law from King’s College London and a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of British Columbia . He has published on the role of criminal punishment in the enforcement of international norms, notably in his book International Justice and the International Criminal Court: Between Sovereignty and the Rule of Law (Oxford University Press, 2003).