Bio
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.
Relevant publications
- H.-R. Zhou, ‘International Legacies of a Century and a Half of the Case Method’ (2023) American Journal of Legal History
- F. Chevrette, H. Marx and H.-R. Zhou, Constitutional Law: Fundamental Principles – Notes and Cases (Thémis 2020)
- H.-R. Zhou, ‘Legal Principles, Constitutional Principles and Judicial Review’, (2019) 67 American Journal of Comparative Law 899
- H.-R. Zhou, ‘A Contextual Defense of “Comparative Constitutional Common Law”’, (2014) 12 International Journal of Constitutional Law 1034
- H.-R. Zhou, ‘Revisiting the ‘Manner and Form’ Theory of Parliamentary Sovereignty’, (2013) 129 Law Quarterly Review 610