CONTRIBUTOR:

Charles-Emmanuel Côté

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Full Professor

DEPARTMENT:

Faculty of Law

INSTITUTION:

Université Laval

BIOGRAPHY:

Charles-Emmanuel Côté is Associate Dean and Secretary of the Faculty of Law of Université Laval, in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, where he is also Full Professor and Co-Director of the Centre for International and Transnational Law (CDIT). He is a lawyer called at the Barreau du Québec (1998) and holds a doctorate degree in law from McGill University (Dean’s Honour List) (2006). Professor Côté’s doctoral dissertation on the participation of private parties to the settlement of international economic disputes was published in Brussels by Bruylant in 2007. It was awarded a special mention from the Jury of the Institute of World Business Law Prize of the International Chamber of Commerce. He previously held a position at the Government of Quebec in the Secretariat on Canadian intergovernmental affairs (2002-2006). He was also a researcher at the Centre de droit de la consommation of the Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium, where he worked on legislative assistance programmes of the European Commission in Central and Eastern Europe and former USSR countries (1996-2000). Professor Côté teaches Public International Law, International Economic Law and Constitutional Law. His current research focuses on the international legal aspects of federalism, State responsibility in International Investment Law, as well as on freedom of movement of professionals.