Daniel Turp
| Daniel Turp | |
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| Member of Parliament for Beauharnois—Salaberry | |
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In office 1997–2000 |
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| Preceded by | Laurent Lavigne |
| Succeeded by | Serge Marcil |
| MNA for Mercier | |
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In office May 1, 2003 – November 5, 2008 |
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| Preceded by | Nathalie Rochefort |
| Succeeded by | Amir Khadir |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
April 30, 1955 Verdun, Quebec, Canada |
| Political party |
Bloc Québécois Parti Québécois |
| Religion | Presbyterian |
Daniel Turp (born April 30, 1955) is a professor of constitutional and international law at the Universite de Montreal, Canada. He 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, Quebec, Canada, Turp was raised as a Roman Catholic but later converted to Presbyterianism. He is a member of the Church of St. Andrew and St. Paul in Montreal.
Turp studied law at the Université de Montréal and the University of Ottawa, and received his legal licence in Sherbrooke, Quebec in 1977. He earned 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 started teaching at the Université de Montréal in 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).
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