Fabien Gélinas

Professor Gélinas teaches and conducts research in the areas of international dispute resolution, common law and civil law contracts, commercial law and legal theory. Formerly General Counsel of the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce, he is now president of the Arbitration Committee of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce and ICC Canada. He is a member of the Quebec Bar and acts as arbitrator, expert and consultant on dispute resolution and legal reform.

Professor Gélinas is a Norton Rose Fulbright Faculty Scholar in Arbitration and Commercial Law at McGill, and heads the Private Justice and the Rule of Law Research group. He was a co-founder of the Montreal Cyberjustice Laboratory. He was a visiting professor or lecturer at the Centre d’études diplomatiques et stratégiques de Paris (École des hautes études internationales), the Université de Paris II – Panthéon Assas, the National University of Rwanda in Butare, Trinity College Dublin, and Sciences Po Paris.