René Provost, Ad.E., FRSC, is James McGill Professor of Law at McGill University, where he was the founding director of the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism. His books include Rebel Courts: The Administration of Justice by Armed Insurgents (Oxford University Press, 2021), winner of the 2022 ICON-S Book Prize and 2023 American Society of International Law Certificate of Merit for Creative Scholarship; International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (Cambridge University Press, 2002); State Responsibility in International Law (Routledge, 2002); Mapping the Boundaries of Belonging: Law Between Religious Revival and Post-Multiculturalism (Oxford University Press, 2014); Culture in the Domains of Law (Cambridge University Press, 2017); Confronting Genocide (Springer Verlag, 2011); and Dialogues on Human Rights and Legal Pluralism (Springer Verlag, 2013).