Global Affiliates

Hugo Tremblay is Affiliate Member of our Academy and Professor Natural Resources and Environmental Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Montreal. His PhD focused on a comparative approach to national laws for aquatic ecosystem protection, under the supervision of Professor Patricia Wouters at the Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science, University of Dundee, under the auspices of UNESCO.

Prior to joining the IWLA, Professor Tremblay worked for the World Water Council and for the Quebec Association of Watershed Organisations in addition to teaching water law courses at various universities.

As a member of the IWLA, Professor Tremblay is mostly involved in research about aspects of national water law, including the human right to water, climate change impacts of water resources, as well as apportionment between water users.

His publications include:

“Water withdrawals” in JurisClasseur, Environmental Law, Montreal, LexisNexis, periodical updates

“Critical perspective on Environmental Law in the Antropocene” (2020) 51:2 Ottawa Law Review 417

“Quebec Water Law Facing Biblical Downpours and Millennial Droughts: Managing Usage Conflicts in the Context of Hydrological Variability”, (2017) 58:3 Cahiers de droit 383

“The Implications of Human Needs for Human Rights-Based Water Allocation”, (2013) 8 McGill International Journal of Sustainable Development Law and Policy 261

“The Emergence of Environmental Flow Protection in Quebec Law”, (2010) 51 Cahiers de droit 801

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Professor Tremblay holds degrees from McGill University (B.A.), University of Montreal (LL.B.), and Université Laval (LL.M.). He completed a SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship at the Centre de Recherche en Droit Public, University of Montreal. He is also a lawyer to the Quebec Bar since 2001, and he practiced professional liability and insurance litigation for a few years before studying water law.

Currently, Professor Tremblay acts as Director for the Business Law in a Global Context LL.M. Program at the Faculty of Law University of Montreal. He is a researcher at the Research Center for Prospective Law (CRDP), and a director at the Quebec Center for Environmental Law, an NGO involved in public interest litigation in environmental issues.