Report on Politician: Irwin Cotler

Name:
Irwin Cotler
Job title:
Irwin Cotler is the Minister of Justice and Attorney
Political party involved:
Irwin Cotler is involved in the Liberal party, and the level of government is federal.
Biography:
Minister Cotler is currently a Professor of Law at McGill University, where he is a Director of the Human Rights Programme, and Chair of Inter Amicus, of the McGill-based International Human Rights Advocacy Centre. He has been a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School, a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at Yale Law School, and is the recipient of five Honorary Doctorates, including one from York University, whose citation referred to him as "a scholar and advocate of international stature."
He has always been closely involved with a variety of human rights causes, including political prisoners in the former Soviet Union, tracking down of Nazi war criminals, and war crimes trials in Rwanda.
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