Edward McWhinney draws on a richly varied professional experience as a Professor teaching in Canada and also in the U.S.. France, Germany, Japan and other countries; as a Consultant and Adviser to the Canadian and a number of foreign governments and to the United Nations; and as an elected Member of Parliament and Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs. He is Past President of the Institut de Droit International, and author of books, written and published in several different languages, on General Theory of International Law, the United Nations and the International Court of Justice, and Federalism and Constitutional Pluralism.