BIOGRAPHY
Since 1992, Mr. Claude Laferrière practices law in Boucherville on Montréal south shore. He is an editor’s and a construction lawyer. Mr. Laferrière occasionally represents victims or delinquents before tribunals, a reminder of his probono experience as a counsel for families of the Association of Families of Assassinated or Disappeared Persons. Ex-military, he lectures for l’Institut militaire de Québec.
Chargé de cours at Université de Montréal, Faculté de droit, Mr. Laferrière delivers since 2010 a seminar on national security to graduate students. In 2009, he authored Five Essays on U.S. National Security published by Wilson & Lafleur Inc.
In 2007, Editions Adage/Maelstrom published collected poems composed randomly in French or English by Claude Laferrière, under the pen name of Roy Duncan.
Claude Laferrière holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in both philosophy and law. In 2007, he completed a Master in International Legal Studies with a major on national security at the Georgetown University Law Center , Washington D.C.