*In April 2022, the university announced our new name of Toronto Metropolitan University, which will be implemented in a phased approach. Learn more about our next chapter.*
Dr. Graham Hudson
Dr. Graham Hudson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology at Ryerson University. He holds a B.A. (Hons) in History and Philosophy from York University, a J.D. from the University of Toronto, an LL.M. from Queen's University, and a Ph.D. from Osgoode Hall Law School. Graham is a member of several research teams, each exploring strategies for improving access to justice for migrants and persons subject to forced (im)mobility. He is leading a four-year socio-legal study of the sanctuary city movement in Canada (Profs. Idil Atak and Harald Bauder, Co-Investigators), with a focus on the law and politics of jurisdiction. Graham is also currently studying access to justice for victims of extraordinary rendition, as well as the legality of secret trials in Commonwealth jurisdictions (along with Dr. Daniel Alati). Graham is an executive member of the Canadian Association for Forced Migration and Refugee Studies and is a member of the Canadian Network for Research on Terrorism, Security and Society’s SSHRC Partnership Grant (Co-Applicant). Graham teaches in the areas of law and social change, constitutional law/Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and criminal law.
TMCIS occupies space in the traditional and unceded territory of nations including the Anishnaabeg, the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples, and territory which is also now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples. This territory is covered by Treaty 13 signed with the Mississaugas of the Credit, as well as the Williams Treaties signed with multiple Mississaugas.