Professor Audrey Macklin, BSc (Alberta), LLB (Toronto), LLM (Yale), is Director
of the Centre
for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies and Chair in International Human Rights
Law at the
University of Toronto. She teaches, researches and writes in the area of
migration and
citizenship law, business and human rights, and administrative law. She has
published widely in
domestic, international, and interdisciplinary journals and edited collections.

Prof. Macklin is a frequent commentator in Canadian and international print,
radio and television
media. Her op-eds have appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, the Globe
and Mail,
the Toronto Star, and the Washington Post.

From 1994–96, Professor Macklin was a Member of the Canada’s Immigration and
Refugee
Board, where she adjudicated refugee claims. She was involved in the case of
Omar Khadr, a
Canadian citizen detained for almost a decade by the United States at Guantànamo
Bay. She
was an observer for Human Rights Watch at the Military Commission proceedings
against Mr.
Khadr in Guantànamo Bay, and represented Human Rights Watch as intervener before
the
Supreme Court of Canada in two Khadr appeals. Professor Macklin has also acted
as pro bono
intervener counsel or academic legal advisor in several public interest human
rights cases,
including legal challenges to security certificates, withdrawal of health care
for refugees,
citizenship revocation, deportation of long-term permanent residents, and the
ban on niqabs at
citizenship ceremonies.

Prof. Macklin was named a Trudeau Fellow in 2017, and awarded the Ludwik and
Estelle Jus
Human Rights Award in 2019 and the Carolyn Tuohy Public Policy Impact Award in
2020.