Brief Bio

Professor Audrey Macklin is Professor of Law and Chair in Human Rights, at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law.  From 2017-2023, she was Director of the Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies. She teaches, researches and writes in the area of migration and citizenship law, business and human rights, and administrative law.  Professor Macklin is co-author of the Governance Gap: Extractive Industries, Human Rights, and the Home State Advantage (London: Routledge: 2014), the Canadian text, Immigration and Refugee Law: Cases, Materials and Commentary, 2nd Edition (Toronto: Emond Montgomery, 2015), as well as dozens of published journal articles and book chapters.

Through her scholarship and personal engagement, Professor. Macklin’s body of work engages with transnational interdisciplinary scholarly networks, civil society and legal actors. Prof. Macklin frequently comments in Canadian and international print, radio and television media, and appears in the documentaries Continuous Journey and The Secret Trial Five.  Her op-eds have appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, and the Washington Post.   She has also represented public interest interveners before the Federal Court, Federal Court of Appeal and Supreme Court of Canada.  From 1994-96, she was a member of the Refugee Protection Division of the Immigration and Refugee Board.

Prof. Macklin was named a Trudeau Fellow in 2017, awarded the Ludwik and Estelle Jus Human Rights Award and Caroline Tuohy and is a Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR).

Course Taught at CTLS

  • Citizenship, Inside and Out (Spring 2025)
  • Comparative Crimmigration (Spring 2025)