Project Author

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Christopher Campbell-Duruflé



 

Christopher Campbell-Duruflé is a lawyer specialized in international human rights and environmental law. He graduated both in common and civil law from McGill University, Canada, obtained a master's degree from the University of Notre Dame, USA, and is a member of the Quebec Bar. His desire to contribute to social change  has led him to work in the fields of Indigenous law and climate law.

He completed legal internships in the State of Oaxaca, Mexico, in San José, Costa Rica, worked with Hutchins Legal, Canada, and was member of Amnesty International Canada’s working group on Indigenous Rights. He articled at the Québec Court of Appeal as law clerk to then Chief Justice of Québec J.J. Michel Robert and participated in the hearings of the Nadege Dorzema et al. v. Dominican Republic case at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights as lawyer for the University of Quebec in Montreal’s International Clinic for the Defense of Human Rights. He was also member of the Quebec Youth Parliament, a model parliamentary event, for 6 years. 

From February to July 2012, Christopher was lawyer for the Colombia office of Lawyers Without Borders Canada and worked on the collective rights of Indigenous and Afro-Colombian peoples victim of the internal armed conflict. It was during his work in the departments of Nariño, Chocó, Caldas, and Cundinamarca that he had the chance to meet the defenders of Caminos de compromiso.

 

Christopher is currently doctoral candidate in international law at the University of Toronto, and his research analyzes the Paris Agreement on climate change from the perspective of state accountability. He was officially accredited observer to the COP 21 United Nations climate negotiations on behalf of the University of Toronto and of the Center for International Sustainable Development Law, and has been supporting the delegation of Burkina Faso since COP 22.