Policing Necessity
François Tanguay-Renaud is an Associate Professor of Law at Osgoode Hall Law School, where he has been Director of the Jack & Mae Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security since 2012 (a position he shares with Prof. Heidi Matthews since 2018). He also holds an appointment as Adjunct Professor in the Department of Philosophy at McMaster University. Prior to coming to Osgoode, he was a stipendiary lecturer in law at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford. Professor Tanguay-Renaud holds degrees in both civil and common law from McGill University, as well as BCL, MPhil, and DPhil degrees from the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He has held visiting professorial appointments at the University of Minnesota Law School, the University of Oxford, the National University of Singapore, the University of Toronto, and the National Law School of India University. His current academic interests span a wide range of subject areas, including criminal law, criminal procedure, and constitutional law, and international law, viewed mostly through the lens of analytical legal theory. He is editor (with James Stribopoulos) of a collection entitled Rethinking Criminal Law Theory: New Canadian Perspectives in the Philosophy of Domestic, Transnational, and International Criminal Law (Hart Publishing, 2012), and has published articles in leading journals such as Ethics, Legal Theory, Res Publica, Law and Philosophy, and Criminal Law and Philosophy as well as in many leading edited collections. He worked as a law clerk for Madam Justice Marie Deschamps at the Supreme Court of Canada, and has held visiting professorial appointments at the University of Minnesota Law School, the University of Oxford, the National University of Singapore, the University of Toronto, and the National Law School of India University.