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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