Valériane Thool

Valériane Thool is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Sherbrooke and an associate researcher at the University of Ottawa’s Research Chair in Sustainable, Responsible, and Inclusive Trade Law. Her research focuses on alternatives to voluntary carbon pricing by states, particularly carbon border adjustments. She has published several articles and given numerous lectures on this topic, including at Global Affairs Canada. Valériane Thool holds a doctorate in law from the University of Quebec in Montreal on international marine biodiversity law.

She has been a contract lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the University of Sherbrooke since 2019. She teaches several international law courses at the bachelor’s and master’s levels. She is also the academic coordinator of the Master’s in Applied International Law and International Politics (DIPIA) at the University of Sherbrooke. Since 2020, Valériane Thool has been the assistant director of the International Legal Assistance Office, the University of Sherbrooke’s international law clinic. She is vice president of the Francophone Network of International Law and secretary general of the Quebec Society of International Law.