Armand de Mestral
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Armand de Mestral is a Swiss-Canadian academic. A law professor at the McGill University he is an expert in international law. he also teaches courses on constitutional law and the law of the European Union. He has an undergraduate an masters degree from Harvard University, a law degree from McGill University, as well as honorary doctorates from Université de Lyon and Kansai Gakuin University. He also served a term as president of the Canadian Red Cross.
He is married to Rosalind Pepall, a curator at the Musée de Beaux Arts and they have two sons Phillipe and Charles. He is the nephew of Georges de Mestral the inventor of Velcro.