Currently a doctoral student in law at the University of Ottawa, Salvator Havyarimana holds a master's degree in law from the same university.
His doctoral research focuses on cooperation between the International Criminal Court and African states in the context of the emergence of a regional criminal court, and his area of research is international criminal justice, human rights and transitional justice.
Former president of the University of Ottawa Graduate Law Students' Association, Salvator Havyarimana was also a member of the Faculty Council, Civil Law Section, from September 2022 to April 2023.