Paul Joffe is a member of the Québec and Ontario bars. He specializes in human rights concerning Indigenous peoples at the international and domestic level.

Since the early 1980s, he has been actively involved in standard-setting processes including those relating to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples at the Organization of American States; and the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 in Geneva. For the past three decades, Paul has represented the Grand Council of the Crees (Eeyou Istchee) and, more recently, the Cree Nation Government. In 1997, he was part of its legal team at the Supreme Court of Canada in Reference re Secession of Québec. In the 2014 Tsilhqot’in Nation case, he was part of the legal team representing Amnesty International and Canadian Friends Service Committee (Quakers) at the Supreme Court of Canada, focusing on Indigenous peoples’ rights in international law.

Paul is a co-editor and contributor to the book Realizing the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Triumph, Hope, and Action (2010). Most recently, he is a contributor to the book Indivisible: Indigenous Human Rights (2014).