Professor William Schabas OC

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Professor William A. Schabas is professor of international law at Middlesex University in London. He is also professor of international human law and human rights at Leiden University, emeritus professor of human rights law at the National University of Ireland Galway and honorary chairman of the Irish Centre for Human Rights, invited visiting scholar at the Paris School of International Affairs (Sciences Politiques), honorary professor at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing, visiting fellow of Kellogg College of the University of Oxford, visiting fellow of Northumbria University, and professeur associé at the Université du Québec à Montréal.

B.A., history, University of Toronto, 1972 ('honours history')

M.A., history (international relations), University of Toronto, 1973 (thesis: 'Anglo-Soviet relations, 1917-1934')

LL.B., University of Montréal, 1983

LL.M., University of Montréal, 1990 (thesis: 'Use of international human rights law before the Canadian courts')

LL.D., University of Montréal, 1992 (thesis: 'The abolition of the death penalty in international law)

LL.D. honoris causa, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, 25 May 2007.

LL.D. honoris causa, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, 17 May 2009.

LL.D. honoris causa, Northwestern University, Chicago, 17 June 2011.