Jean-Michel Marcoux
Assistant Professor
| Degrees: | B.A. (Université Laval), M.A. (Université Laval), Ph.D. (University of Victoria) |
| Email: | JeanMichel.Marcoux@Carleton.ca |
| Office: | C564 LA (Loeb Building) |
On leave for the Fall 2024 term
Jean-Michel Marcoux is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University. He holds a PhD in Law (University of Victoria), an MA in International Studies (Institut québécois des hautes études internationales, Université Laval) and a BA in Public Affairs and International Relations (Université Laval). He previously taught in the Graduate School of International Studies and the Faculty of Law at Université Laval. Before joining Carleton University, he also completed a postdoctoral fellowship at McGill University’s Faculty of Law and acted as a Trade Litigation Advisor for the Government of Québec.
Jean-Michel’s research interests focus on the role of state and non-state actors in shaping norms in international law, with a particular interest in attempts at holding powerful private actors accountable. He generally draws upon international relations theory and social science methods to empirically scrutinize the international lawmaking process. Jean-Michel is the author of International Investment Law and Globalization: Foreign Investment, Responsibilities and Intergovernmental Organizations (Routledge, 2018) and the co-editor of A Multidisciplinary Approach to Pandemics: COVID-19 and Beyond (Oxford University Press, 2022). He has also authored and co-authored publications on transnational public policy, contributory fault in investment arbitration, the renegotiation of NAFTA, the reform of international investment agreements, state-owned enterprise disciplines, duty evasion and interdisciplinary methodology. His is currently involved in a SSHRC-funded research project that explores the future of arbitration in the settlement of investment, trade and human rights disputes.
Jean-Michel is interested in supervising graduate students in the areas of international trade law, international investment law, international arbitration, as well as business and human rights, from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Selected Publications
Book
Marcoux, Jean-Michel. International Investment Law and Globalization: Foreign Investment, Responsibilities and Intergovernmental Organizations (London: Routledge, 2018).
Edited Book
Bourbeau, Philippe, Jean-Michel Marcoux and Brooke A. Ackerly (eds), A Multidisciplinary Approach to Pandemics: COVID-19 and Beyond (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022).
Book Chapters
Ackerly, Brooke A., Jean-Michel Marcoux and Philippe Bourbeau. “Introduction: Pandemics, Multidisciplinarity and Global Ethics”, in Philippe Bourbeau, Jean-Michel Marcoux and Brooke A. Ackerly (eds), A Multidisciplinary Approach to Pandemics: COVID-19 and Beyond (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022) 1.
Côté, Charles-Emmanuel, Richard Ouellet and Jean-Michel Marcoux. “Pandemics and the Use of Exceptions in International Economic Law: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back?”, in Philippe Bourbeau, Jean-Michel Marcoux and Brooke A. Ackerly (eds), A Multidisciplinary Approach to Pandemics: COVID-19 and Beyond (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022) 155.
Marcoux, Jean-Michel. “Extraordinary Challenge Procedure (North American Free Trade Agreement)”, in Hélène Ruiz Fabri (ed), Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law (online: Oxford University Press, 2021).
Marcoux, Jean-Michel. “The Renegotiation of NAFTA: The ‘Most Advanced’ Free Trade Agreement?”, in Marc Bungenberg et al (eds), European Yearbook of International Economic Law 2019 (Heidelberg: Springer, 2020) 257.
Marcoux, Jean-Michel. “Embedding the International Investment Regime: An Assessment of UNCTAD’s Proposal for Reform”, in Lisa Sachs and Lise Johnson (eds), Yearbook on International Investment Law & Policy 2015-2016 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018) 261.
Articles
Marcoux, Jean-Michel and Julien Sylvestre-Fleury. “China’s Contestation of International Norms on State-Owned Enterprises and Government Procurement through the Belt and Road Initiative” (2022) 30 Asia Pacific Law Review 325.
Marcoux, Jean-Michel and Andrea K. Bjorklund. “Duty Evasion in Free Trade Agreements: Norm Emergence and Implications” (2022) 56 Journal of World Trade 215.
Marcoux, Jean-Michel. “Informal Instruments to Impose Human Rights Obligations on Foreign Investors: An Emerging Practice of Legality?” (2021) 34 Leiden Journal of International Law 109.
Marcoux, Jean-Michel. “Transnational Public Policy as a Vehicle to Impose Human Rights Obligations in International Investment Arbitration” (2020) 21 Journal of World Investment & Trade 809.
Marcoux, Jean-Michel. “The Need to Make Sense of a Practice in Investment Arbitration: A Response to Eric De Brabandere” (2020) 21 Journal of World Investment & Trade 867.
Marcoux, Jean-Michel and Andrea K. Bjorklund. “Foreign Investors’ Responsibilities and Contributory Fault in Investment Arbitration” (2020) 69 International & Comparative Law Quarterly 877.
Marcoux, Jean-Michel. “Transnational Public Policy as an International Practice in Investment Arbitration” (2019) 10 Journal of International Dispute Settlement 496.
Marcoux, Jean-Michel and Andrew Newcombe. “Bear Creek Mining Corporation v Republic of Peru: Two Sides of a ‘Social License’ to Operate” (2018) 33 ICSID Review 653.
Sylvestre-Fleury, Julien and Jean-Michel Marcoux. “The US Shaping of State-Owned Enterprise Disciplines in the Trans-Pacific Partnership” (2016) 19 Journal of International Economic Law 445.
Marcoux, Jean-Michel. “Études internationales, Droit international et Relations internationales : Un appel à une analyse interdisciplinaire de l’évolution de la codification des responsabilités des investisseurs étrangers” (2015) 46 Études internationales 467
Newcombe, Andrew and Jean-Michel Marcoux. “Hesham Talaat M. Al-Warraq v Republic of Indonesia: Imposing International Obligations on Foreign Investors” (2015) 30 ICSID Review 525.
Jones, Benjamin R and Jean-Michel Marcoux. “Comments on the Reasons for Judgment of the Federal Court of Appeal in Hupacasath First Nation v The Minister of Foreign Affairs Canada and the Attorney General of Canada” (2015) 12(6) Transnational Dispute Management.
Marcoux, Jean-Michel. “Beyond Gold Reserve Inc. v Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela: The Host State’s Capacity to Regulate Extractive Activities in Light of Canadian Firms’ Experience in International Investment Treaty Arbitration” (2014) 52 Canadian Yearbook of International Law 261.
Marcoux, Jean-Michel and Richard Ouellet. “Waiting for Commercial Viability: Legal Incentives to Produce Cellulosic Biofuels and their Consistency with the WTO Regime” (2014) 10 McGill International Journal of Sustainable Development Law and Policy 71.