Armand de Mestral

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 degree from McGill and a law degree and masters from Harvard University as well as an honorary doctorate from Université de Lyon. He also served a term as the president of the Canadian Red Cross.

He is married to Rosalyn Pepall, a curator at the Musée de Beaux Arts and they have two sons Phillipe and Charles. He is the nephew of George de Mestral the inventor of Velcro.