Professor Fournier was chosen by the Canada Arab Chamber of Commerce (CanACC), a platform that aims at building commercial links and stimulating cultural exchanges between Canada and the Arab world, to receive a Special Achievement Award that rewards academic excellence and humanitarian contributions. The Chamber of Commerce wishes, with this distinction, to underline the impact…

Professor Fournier is publishing, this fall, an article in Droit et Société (copublication with Pascal McDougall) titled “Le droit comparé et la violence faite aux femmes : voyages au coeur de la narration identitaire” which discusses honor crimes and proposes a genealogy of the phenomenon that trumps Western perceptions of its exclusive belonging to foreign cultures. This contribution purports…