François Xavier Saluden is a lecturer and researcher in water law and international law at the Université de Montréal, Université du Québec à Montréal and Université Laval. He teaches Quebec, Canadian and international water law, public international law, international environmental law, international humanitarian law and post-conflict reconstruction, international human rights law, and specific fileds of European law. He is in charge of the Summer School on Human Rights of the Centre d'études et de recherches internationales de l'Université de Montréal (CERIUM). He integrates his research in active pedagogy and alternative teaching methods.

He conducts doctoral research at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Pr. Geneviève Bastid Burdeau) on cooperation and protection regimes for actors in dams of international interest.

He acts as a rapporteur or researcher on specific issues in cases involving international law, watercourses law, the law of the sea and maritime law, or professional law.

• Quebec, Canadian and international water law
• Public international law
• International environmental law
• International humanitarian law and post-conflict reconstruction
• International human rights law