Genevieve Renard Painter is an associate professor at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute at Concordia University, Montréal / Tiohtià:ke. Her historical and theoretical work on international law, constitutional law, and settler colonialism has been published in the London Review of International Law, Law Text Culture, and a number of edited collections. In 2021, she won Concordia University’s Presidential Excellence in Teaching Award (non-tenured). Her research is supported by grants from the Fonds de recherche du Québec - Société et culture, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. She holds a PhD in Jurisprudence and Social Policy from the University of California, Berkeley. She was a post-doctoral fellow at the Faculty of Law, McGill University, and has been a visitor at the University of British Columbia, Osgoode Hall Law School, and Kent Law School (UK). A member of the Quebec Bar, she graduated with distinction with degrees in common and civil law from the Faculty of Law, McGill University. Prior to becoming an academic, Dr. Painter gained practice experience litigating aboriginal and constitutional cases in Canada, and she conducted policy work in international criminal justice in the Hague.