Rebel Courts is an exceptional book. The breadth of practice of armed groups collected, cited, and analyzed by Provost will, without a doubt, offer important insights to generations of scholars interested in rebel governance, rebel law, and rebel administration of justice. The book will also, hopefully, inspire more international lawyers to engage in fieldwork and with legal pluralism.
René Provost, Ad.E. FRSC, is Professor of Law at McGill University. As a senior counsel at the Bar of the Province of Québec, he has acted as amicus curiae before the European Court of Human Rights, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and the Extraordinary Chamber of the Courts of Cambodia. Professor Provost is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation.