Craig Forcese has been a member of the National Security and Intelligence Review Agency since 2019 and has served as its Vice-Chair since 2022.
Mr. Forcese is a professor at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law, where he served as Vice Dean for Graduate Studies in Law from 2018 to 2021 and Vice Dean of the Juris Doctor program from 2011 to 2014. He also teaches at Carleton University’s Norman Paterson School of International Affairs.
Mr. Forcese teaches public international law, national security law, administrative law, and constitutional law. He has been an Adjunct Research Professor and Senior Fellow at Carleton University’s Norman Paterson School of International Affairs and a National Security Crisis Law Fellow for the Center on National Security and the Law at Georgetown Law, in Washington, D.C.
Mr. Forcese is a board member and past President of the Canadian Council on International Law and a former President of the Canadian Association of Law Teachers. He was inducted in the University of Ottawa’s Common Law Honour Society in 2016.
Mr. Forcese is a member in good standing of the bars of Ontario, New York, and the District of Columbia. He previously practised law with Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP in Washington, D.C., specializing in international trade and commercial law. Prior to that, he completed his Law Society of Ontario law articles as a law clerk at the Federal Court of Canada.
Mr. Forcese holds a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and Geography from McGill University, a Master of Arts in International Affairs from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University as well as a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Ottawa and a Master of Laws from Yale University.