
Richard Ouellet
Full Professor
Richard Ouellet is a full professor in international economic law at the Faculty of Law and the Graduate School of International Studies (ESEI) at Université Laval in Quebec. He is the Chair in New Challenges of Economic Globalization and director of the Center for Multidisciplinary Studies in International Trade and Investment (CEPCI). He has been a member of the Barreau du Québec since 1992.
His teachings and research focus on the agreements of the World Trade Organization and regional economic integration. He has supervised nearly a hundred master's and doctoral students to date. He is the author of numerous papers, book chapters, and articles published in scholarly journals. His current research projects include economic integration in North America, the application of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), the national security exception in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the resurgence of the concept of treaty-contracts in international economic law, and the institutional reform of the World Trade Organization.
Richard Ouellet has been a visiting professor, lecturer, and researcher in about fifteen countries across the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia. He serves as a consultant for various ministries, organizations, and public entities in the field of international economic law and is regularly sought after by the media to comment on news related to the WTO, regional trade agreements, and Canadian trade policy. He is regularly selected as an anonymous evaluator by specialized scholarly journals in international law, international relations, or trade. Ouellet is associated with HEC Montréal's School of Management as a Trainer-Professor for the Quebec Institute of Diplomacy. He is listed as arbitrator for Annex 31-B of the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement.
Professor Ouellet has served on several boards of directors, including those of the Center for International Studies and Cooperation (CECI) and the National School of Public Administration of Quebec (ENAP). He has been the program director for HEI and has served on the University Council of Université Laval. Currently, he sits on the Board of Directors of Université Laval and the Board of Directors of the National Museum of Arts of Quebec.