Marina Sharpe

Marina Sharpe is Associate Professor of international law in the international studies programme at Canada’s Royal Military College Saint-Jean, as well as Professeure associée in the faculty of law at Université de Sherbrooke. Prior to becoming an academic, Marina practiced law, including as Senior Legal Officer with UNHCR’s representation to the African Union in Addis Ababa; as Legal Officer of the International Refugee Rights Initiative in Kampala; and as a lawyer with Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP in New York. Marina is the author of The Regional Law of Refugee Protection in Africa (Oxford University Press, 2018) and is currently working on a book on humanitarian assistance, also for OUP. She holds a DPhil in law from the University of Oxford, for which she received a Trudeau Scholarship (2011); an LLB and BCL in law from McGill University; an MSc in international development from the London School of Economics; and a BA in economics from McGill. She is a volunteer with the Canadian Red Cross and served for almost a decade on the board of Asylum Access.