Audrey Macklin

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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]

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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]

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