Audrey Macklin
78 Queen's Park
Education
- 1991 - LLM, Yale University, New Haven, United States
1987 - LLB
University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- 1984 - BSc, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Overview
Audrey Macklin is Professor of Law and Rebecca Cook Chair in International Human Rights. She studied law at University of Toronto (LLB 1987) and Yale Law School (1991), and clerked for Justice Bertha Wilson at the Supreme Court of Canada. After commencing her academic career at Dalhousie Law School, she was appointed at University of Toronto in 2001 and called to the Bar in 2004. From 1995-1997, Prof. Macklin was a Member for the Immigration and Refugee Board (Refugee Protection Division), and served as Director of the Centre for Criminology and Socioloegal Studies from 2017-2023.
Professor Macklin researches, teaches, advocates and publishes widely in the fields of migration, citizenship, refugee, and human rights law, as well as administrative law. She is active in public-facing work that includes pro bono interventions at all levels of court, including the Supreme Court of Canada and human rights engagement in Canada and abroad. She frequently appears in media in Canada and internationally on issues relating to migration, counter-terrorism, refugees, citizenship and business and human rights. Her work has been cited numerous times by the Supreme Court of Canada.
Prof. Macklin is a Fellow of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, the Canadian Institute For Advanced Research (CIFAR), and recipient of the Carolyn Tuohy Award for Public Policy.
Areas of Interest
- Administrative Law
- International Law & Policy
Teaching
Research
Professor Macklin’s research and writing interests include transnational migration, citizenship, forced migration, feminist and cultural analysis, and human rights.
Selected Publications
‘Theorizing claims making across the citizenship spectrum: three case studies’ (2026) 64 Citizenship Studies, 1-23 DOI: 10.1080/13621025.2026.2633609 (co-authored with Yasmeen Abu-Laban)
‘Always Elsewhere: Constitutional Rights in CCR,’ in Benjamin Berger, Sonia Laurence and Emily Kidd White, eds., Supreme Court Law Review 3d., Vol 5 (LexisNexis 2025), 85-107 (co-authored with Josh Blum).
‘Exit Rights, Seamless Borders and the New Carceral State,' (2024) 73 ICLQ 891-929, doi:10.1017/S0020589324000381.
‘Humanitarian Bargains: Private Refugee Sponsorship and the Limits of Humanitarian Reason, (2023) 49:15 Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 3958-3975 (co-authored with Anna Korteweg)
‘Liminal Rights: Sovereignty, Constitutions and borders,’ in M. Tushnet and D. Kochenov, eds, Research Handbook on the Politics of Constitutional Law, (Edward Elgar, 2023), 105-128.
‘Love Triangle: Nation-Citizen-Spouse’, in Anne-Marie D’Aoust, ed., Transnational Marriage and Partner Migration: Constellations of Security, Citizenship and Rights, (New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2022) 259-273.
‘Resettlement,’ in Cathryn Costello, Michelle Foster and Jane McAdam, eds., Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law, (Oxford, 2021) 1080-1099 (co-authored with Susan Kneebone)
The Governance Gap: Extractive Industries, Human Rights and the Home State Advantage (Routledge: 2014) (co-authored with Penelope Simons)
Multiculturalism Meets Privatization: The Case of Faith-Based Arbitration’, (2013) 9(3) International Journal of Law in Context 343-365.
‘Freeing Migration From the State’, (2010) 60 UTLJ 315-348.
‘From Cooperation, to Complicity, to Compensation: The War on Terror, Extraordinary Rendition, and the Cost of Torture’, (2008) 10(1) European Journal of Migration and Law, 11-30.
‘Who is the Citizen’s Other? Considering the Heft of Citizenship’, (2007) 8 Theoretical Inquiries in Law, 476-508 (also co-editor of Special Issue).
‘Disappearing Refugees’, (2005) 36 Columbia Human Rights Law Review 365-426.
‘Refugee Women and the Imperative of Categories’, (1995) 17 Human Rights Quarterly 213-277.
2017 - present
Director
University of Toronto, Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies, Toronto, Canada
1998 - 2000
Tenured Associate Professor
Dalhousie University, Faculty of Law, Halifax, Canada
2001 - 2009
Tenured Associate Professor
University of Toronto, Faculty of Law (Cross-Appointed (courtesy) to School for Public Policy and Governance
and Criminology and Socio-Legal Studies), Toronto, Canada
2009 - present
Full Professor
University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, Toronto, Canada
2012 - present
Chair in Human Rights Law
University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada