Craig Forcese
Associate Professor (on academic leave)
57 Louis Pasteur St., Room 120
Ottawa,
Ontario
Canada
K1N 6N5
Craig.Forcese@uOttawa.ca
(613) 562-5800 Ext. 2524
(613) 562-5124
B.A. Joint Honours, anthropology/geography (McGill), M.A. International Affairs (Carleton), LL.B. (Ottawa), LL.M. (Yale), of the bars of Ontario, New York and the District of Columbia, Associate Professor.
Craig's regular courses are public international law, national security law, administrative law, and public law & legislation. He also runs the annual Foreign Policy Practicum and teaches an occasional intensive course with Lorne Waldman on comparative anti-terrorism law.
Craig joined the Faculty of Law as an assistant professor in 2003. Before that, Craig was law clerk to Mr. Justice Andrew MacKay at the Federal Court of Canada in 1997-1998 and was a lecturer at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law between 1998-2000.
Between 2001-2003, Craig practiced international trade law with Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP in Washington D.C., representing clients in proceedings before the U.S. Department of Commerce, the U.S. International Trade Commission, the U.S. Trade Representative, and the World Trade Organization. While in law school, he served briefly as a staff researcher for Ralph Nader’s Essential Information in Washington D.C. and worked on land claims issues for an aboriginal organization in Guyana, South America.
Much of Craig’s present research and writing relates to international law, national security, human rights and democratic accountability.
National Security Law
Craig is the author of National Security Law: Canadian Practice in International Perspective (Irwin Law, 2008), a treatise on national security law. (For regular updates of this book, see Craig's national security law blog.)
Craig's research and policy focus in other writings has included a particular emphasis on anti-terrorism and human rights and on government national security secrecy law. He is co-edtior with Nicole LaViolette of The Human Rights of Anti-terrorism (Irwin Law, 2008), a collection of papers discussing the Ottawa Principles on Anti-terrorism and Human Rights. Craig has also written (and served as an expert witness at the Arar commission) on diplomatic protection of Canadian nationals overseas in the anti-terrorism context and authored articles on use of military force in anti-terrorism.
Public International Law
Craig is co-author and co-editor, with John Currie and Valerie Oostervald, of International Law: Doctrine, Practice and Theory (Irwin Law, 2007), a hybrid introductory textbook/casebook in public international law. (For regular updates of this reference, see Public International Law Interactive.)
He has published law review articles on, among other things, state immunity, extraterritorial law and the regulation of transnational corporations, international trade law and diplomatic protection of aliens.
Democratic Accountability
Craig is the co-author, with part-time Professor Aaron Freeman, of the The Laws of Government: The Legal Foundations of Canadian Democracy (Irwin Law, 2005), a treatise on the legal superstructure of Canadian democratic governance. He is also co-managing editor of Public Law (Emond Montgomery, 2006), a casebook on public law and legislation in Canada.
In September 2008, Craig was retained as the director of research for the policy phase of the Oliphant Commission (Commission of Inquiry into Certain Allegations Respecting Business and Financial Dealings with Karheinz Schreiber and the Right Honourable Brian Mulroney).
Business and Human Rights
While Craig is no longer active in the area, past academic and public policy work with groups such as Rights & Democracy and Amnesty International has focused on issues of business and international human rights, especially in conflict zones.
In 2001, while completing graduate work at Yale, Craig served as research director for the Canadian Democracy and Corporate Accountability Commission, co-chaired by the Honourable Ed Broadbent and Mr. Avie Bennett. In 2006, he served as an Advisory Committee member for the Government of Canada's Roundtables on Corporate Social Responsibility in the Extractive Sector.
-- Last updated 19-09-08