Associate Research Fellow
Research keywords: Human rights law, Commonwealth studies, Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, comparative constitutional law, the rule of law.
Han-Ru Zhou is an associate professor of public law at the Université de Montréal. He has held visiting positions at the University of Ottawa, the University of California at Berkeley and McGill University. Han-Ru has published in leading journals, including The Law Quarterly Review, the International Journal of Constitutional Law, the American Journal of Comparative Law and the American Journal of Legal History. He is the author of Constitutional Law: Fundamental Principles – Notes and Cases (Thémis 2020). His research has been funded as a principal investigator by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, and the Canadian Foundation for Legal Research. A member of the Québec Bar, Han-Ru is a former co-editor-in-chief of the Review of Constitutional Studies, member of the Independent Advisory Board for Supreme Court of Canada Judicial Appointments, and law clerk to Justice Marie Deschamps at the Supreme Court of Canada. He received his legal education at Montréal, Harvard and Oxford Universities. For over a decade, he studied classical piano at the Conservatory of Music of Montreal.
