Daniel Turp (born April 30, 1955 in Verdun, Quebec) is a politician in Quebec, Canada. He has served as a Bloc Québécois Member of Parliament (1997-2000) and as a Parti Québécois member of the Quebec National Assembly (2003-2008).
Born in Montreal, he studied law at the Université de Montréal and the University of Ottawa, and received his legal licence in Sherbrooke in 1977. He gained a Master's degree at the Université de Montréal in 1978. He ha...
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Daniel Turp (born April 30, 1955 in Verdun, Quebec) is a politician in Quebec, Canada. He has served as a Bloc Québécois Member of Parliament (1997-2000) and as a Parti Québécois member of the Quebec National Assembly (2003-2008).
Born in Montreal, he studied law at the Université de Montréal and the University of Ottawa, and received his legal licence in Sherbrooke in 1977. He gained a Master's degree at the Université de Montréal in 1978. He has worked for the Canadian International Development Agency, and was called as an expert for the Bélanger-Campeau Commission on Quebec's constitutional future.
Turp also started teaching at the Université de Montréal since 1982. Since then, he has taught several law courses at the University of Paris X (1986-1996), The International Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg (1988) and Harvard University (1996). He has also been a director of studies at the International law academy in The Hague (1995).
After lengthy studies, he obtained a...
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