Hugo Tremblay
Contact Details
Email: h.tremblay@dundee.ac.uk
Blog: Quebec Water Law
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After practising as a litigation lawyer for a few years, Hugo completed an LL.M. with Honours in Environmental Law in 2007.
Hugo is now a PhD student under the supervision of Professor Patricia Wouters and Andrew Allan in the national law cluster at the IHP-HELP Centre.
Hugo’s PhD project is on the legal frameworks for freshwater ecosystem protection.
| Date | Title |
|---|---|
2009 |
«Book review: Knut Bourquain, ‘Freshwater Access from a Human Rights Perspective: A Challenge to International Water and Human Rights Law’» (2009) Vol.10 No2 Melbourne Journal of International Law 705 [Co-author] |
2008 |
[Economic management of groundwater resources through property rights in Québec] «La gestion économique de l’eau souterraine par le droit de propriété au Québec» (2008) Vol.38 Revue de Droit de l’Université Sherbrooke 483 |
2008 |
«The Legal Framework for Quantitative Groundwater Management in Québec: Towards Integrated Resource Management?» (2008) Vol.4 No2 Law, Environment and Development Journal 102 |
2008 |
[The Legal Framework for Drinking Water in Québec] «Le droit de l’eau potable au Québec» (2008) Vol.49 No3 Les Cahiers de Droit 333 [Co-author] Link |
| Date | Title |
|---|---|
Current |
Water Law Blog [Contributor] |
12 August 2009 |
[NAFTA’s impact on water management: A question of bulk transfers or environmental sovereignty?]«L’impact de l’ALENA sur la gestion de l’eau : Une question de transferts en vrac ou de souveraineté environnementale?», Le Devoir, p.A7 |
19 November 2008 |
[The Fraser Institute against Bill 92: An ideological bias in favor of private property] «L'Institut Fraser contre le projet de loi 92: une charge idéologique en faveur de la propriété de l'eau», Le Devoir, p.A9 |
2008 |
«Donor Profiles on Aid to Water Supply and Sanitation» in OECD/DAC Secretariat & World Water Council, CRS Aid Activities in Support of Water Supply and Sanitation, 2001-2006 (Paris: OECD, 2008) [Contributor] |
| Date | Title |
|---|---|
18 November 2009 |
«Tensions and Synergies between Integrated Water Resources Management and the Human Rights-Based Approach to Development», Anthropology in Development Seminar Series, University of Durham |
20 May 2009 |
«Basin Management in Québec: What Role for Water Law in a Voluntary Approach?», Brace Centre for Water Resources Management, McGill University |
26 October 2007 |
«The legal framework for groundwater management in Québec: towards integrated management?», 23rd Canadian Symposium on Water Quality Research, Canadian Association on Water Quality, University of Sherbrooke |
| Date | Title |
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| 2009-2012 | PhD Scholarship, Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la société et la culture |
| 2009 | Special Prize for Best Master’s Thesis, 2009, GRIDAUH (Research Group for the Institutions and the Law of Development, Urban Planning and Housing), University of Sorbonne-Paris I, Pantheon |
Hugo Tremblay graduated from the Faculty of Law at University of Montreal, Canada, in 2000 and was called to the Québec Bar in 2001.
After practising as a litigation lawyer for a few years, he completed an LL.M. with Honours in Environmental Law at Université Laval in 2007.
Hugo interned at the World Water Council and at the Quebec Watershed Organisations Association. He also acted as consultant for the development of environmental audit protocols for Fisheries and Oceans Canada, as well as for the Québec Bar Association during the Provincial Commission on the Future of Agriculture.
Hugo is now a PhD student under the supervision of Professor Patricia Wouters and Andrew Allan in the national law cluster at the IHP-HELP Centre. His PhD project is on the legal frameworks for freshwater ecosystem protection.
Other current research interest include National Water Law, Groundwater Law, the Human Right to Water, Environmental Flows, Implementation of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), Hydrologic Variability, Climate Change and Atmospheric Waters.
Hugo’s previous research has focused on the legal frameworks regarding groundwater and drinking water in Quebec as well as on the implementation of the Integrated Water Resources Management paradigm.
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