He holds an LL.M. with distinction from the University of Edinburgh and has been a barrister and solicitor of the Bar of Nova Scotia since 2000. He is the author of International and Transnational Criminal Law (Toronto: Irwin, 2010), and a co-author of Kindred and Saunders, eds., International Law: Chiefly as interpreted and Applied in Canada, 7th ed. (Toronto: Edmond Montgomery, 2006).S