Canadian legal scholar
Audrey Macklin is a Canadian scholar of immigration law and the Rebecca Cook Chair in Human Rights Law at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law.[1] She is also the director of the University of Toronto's Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies.[2]
Macklin was a Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation fellow in 2017.[2] As of 2020, she is a fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.[3]
Macklin received a BSc from the University of Alberta, an LLB from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, and an LLM from Yale Law School.[2] Before her academic career, Macklin clerked for Justice Bertha Wilson of the Supreme Court of Canada.[4] Macklin was a professor at the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University from 1991 to 2000, when she was appointed to a position at the University of Toronto.[4] In the mid-1990s, she was a member of the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada.[3]
In 2017, Macklin delivered testimony to a committee of the Senate of Canada regarding proposed amendments to the Citizenship Act.[5] In 2019, she represented the University of Toronto Faculty of Law's International Human Rights Program before the Supreme Court of Canada in Nevsun Resources Ltd v Araya, a case involving the liability of a Canadian firm for alleged breaches of international law abroad.[6]
Selected publications
- Macklin, Audrey (1992). "Foreign Domestic Worker: Surrogate Housewife or Mail Order Servant?" (PDF). McGill Law Journal. 37 (3): 681–760. ISSN 0024-9041. SSRN 1629954.
- Macklin, Audrey (1995). "Refugee Women and the Imperative of Categories" (PDF). Human Rights Quarterly. 17 (2): 213–277. doi:10.1353/hrq.1995.0019. hdl:10315/6740. ISSN 1085-794X. JSTOR 762517. S2CID 144665816.
- Macklin, Audrey (December 23, 2005). "Disappearing Refugees: Reflections on the Canada–US Safe Third Country Agreement" (PDF). Columbia Human Rights Law Review. 36: 365–426. SSRN 871226.
- Simons, Penelope; Macklin, Audrey (July 11, 2014). The Governance Gap: Extractive Industries, Human Rights, and the Home State Advantage. Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780203417256. ISBN 978-0-203-41725-6.
- Aiken, Sharryn J.; Galloway, J. Donald C.; Grey, Colin; Macklin, Audrey (April 22, 2015). Migration Law in Canada (2nd ed.). Wolters Kluwer. ISBN 978-90-411-6013-3. OCLC 910930412.
References
- ^ "Political rhetoric about border control part of a 'moral panic', says law prof". CBC News. October 11, 2019. Retrieved October 30, 2020.
- ^ a b c "Audrey Macklin". Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation. Archived from the original on September 24, 2020. Retrieved October 30, 2020.
- ^ a b "Audrey Macklin". Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. Archived from the original on October 24, 2019. Retrieved October 30, 2020.
- ^ a b "Audrey Macklin". Munk School of Global Affairs. Archived from the original on November 4, 2020. Retrieved October 30, 2020.
- ^ "Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology, First Session, Forty-second Parliament". Senate of Canada. February 15, 2017. Archived from the original on March 25, 2017. Retrieved October 30, 2020.
- ^ Anderson, Scott (January 22, 2019). "What did Canadian mining executives know about possible human rights violations in Eritrea?". CBC News. Retrieved October 30, 2020.
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