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When States Take Rights Back: Citizenship Revocation and Its Discontents
(E. Fargues, E. Winter, M. Gibney, eds)
Speaker: Elke Winter, William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies, Canada Program, WCFIA, and Professor of Sociology, University of Ottawa
Commentator: Audrey Macklin, Director of the Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies, Chair in International Human Rights Law, University of Toronto
Cosponsored by the Comparative Inequality and Inclusion Cluster, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and the Culture and Social Analysis Workshop, Department of Sociology, Harvard University
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.