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Jonathan Brosseau is a Canadian international lawyer and a DCL/PhD candidate in comparative law at McGill University and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Supervised by Professors Andrea Bjorklund and Mathias Audit, his doctoral research focuses on civil procedure related to State immunity. He is supported by a Contrat doctoral from the École Doctorale de Droit de la Sorbonne, a Doctoral Fellowship from Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, as well as generous Canadian and Quebec scholarships. Throughout his doctoral studies, Jonathan has been a Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Institute for European and Comparative Law, a Research Fellow at the United Nations University, and a Europaeum Scholar, participating in a two-year policy and leadership program that involved training at eight leading European universities. Jonathan has recently served as a guest lecturer in international law courses at McGill University, where he also co-supervised research projects of Master of Law candidates. A member of the Quebec Bar, he previously worked as an associate in international arbitration at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Paris, and served as a Judicial Fellow to Judge Peter Tomka at the International Court of Justice in The Hague. His practical training also includes extended internships with the United Nations Headquarters in New York and Canada’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Ottawa. Jonathan has authored or co-authored six peer-reviewed articles in leading law journals (such as the Law & Practice of International Courts and Tribunals), contributed four substantial chapters in reputable edited volumes (such as the Cambridge Compendium of International Commercial and Investment Arbitration), and published over a dozen other scholarly pieces on international dispute resolution and transnational law. He holds a Master of Law (LLM) degree from the University of Cambridge, where he received the Volterra Fietta and Nappert Prizes. He also holds common law and civil law degrees with honours (BCL/LLB Hons) from McGill University, where he finished on the Dean’s Honours List and received the Gualtieri-Doran and Cook Awards.