Law professor Julia Grignon joins Institut de recherche stratégique de l'École Militaire

The Institut de recherche stratégique de l'École Militaire (IRSEM) has appointed Université Laval Faculty of Law professor Julia Grignon as an expert researcher in the law of armed conflict.

Created in 2010, IRSEM is the strategic research body of the French Ministry of Armed Forces, which carries out open studies in strategic defence and security research and contributes to the institutional, public, and academic debate on defence, strategy, and security issues.

Grignon will join IRSEM’s Strategies, Standards and Doctrines Committee – a group of experts responsible for studying the political, military, legal, and philosophical aspects of contemporary armed conflicts in her new role.

Grignon is currently an associate professor at Université Laval Faculty of Law, where she teaches international humanitarian law, international human rights law, and international refugee law. She has authored a book entitled, L'applicabilité tempoé du droit international humanitaire.  

Before joining Université Laval, Grignon worked as a deputy international secretary for the International Federation of Action by Christians for the Abolition of Torture in Paris and took on a research and teaching assistant role at the University of Geneva the Faculty of Law in Switzerland.

Grignon also belongs to several learned societies. She is a co-director of the Clinic for International Criminal and Humanitarian Law and a founding member of the Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Africa and the Middle East.

She is also an active member of the Canadian Partnership for International Justice – a pan-Canadian partnership that brings together leading Canadian academics and non-state actors to strengthen access to justice for victims of international crimes – and a board member of the Société Québécoise de Droit International.