He was the founding Director of the McGill Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism from 2005 to 2010. He has degrees from the Université de Montréal (LL.B.), U.C. Berkeley (LL.M.) and Oxford (D.Phil.). Professor Provost is the author of International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (Cambridge University Press, 2002), editor of State Responsibility in International Law (Ashgate/Darthmout, 2002), and co-editor of Public International Law Chiefly as Applied and Interpreted in Canada (Emond Montgomery, 2006), Confronting Genocide (Springer Verlag 2011), and Dialogues on Human Rights and Legal Pluralism (Springer Verlag, forthcoming). He has acted as a consultant for DFAIT and CIDA on numerous occasions.