Biography

Han-Ru Zhou is an Associate Professor of Public Law at the Université de Montréal and a Visiting Scholar at the uOttawa Public Law Centre. He is a past Visiting Professor at the University of Ottawa,  Sproul Research Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley and Boulton Fellow at McGill University. In 2006-2007, he served as a law clerk to Justice Marie Deschamps at the Supreme Court of Canada. A member of the Québec Bar, Han-Ru Zhou also practised as a corporate lawyer at a Canadian law firm. He received his legal education at Montréal, Harvard and Oxford Universities. He also studied classical piano at the Conservatory of music of Montreal. Professor Zhou teaches, researches and consults in the areas of constitutional law and human rights law. He is the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Review of Constitutional Studies and the author of Constitutional Law: Fundamental Principles (Thémis 2021, 1,164 p., translated from Droit constitutionnel: principes fondamentaux). He was a member of the Independent Advisory Board for Supreme Court of Canada Judicial Appointments in 2019 and served as the President of the Harvard Club of Québec from 2018 to 2020.

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