Catherine Dauvergne

Canada Research Chair in Migration Law, Professor

B.A. Carleton 1987; M.A. Carleton 1988; LL.B. UBC 1995; Ph.D. ANU 2000

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Profile

Professor Dauvergne holds the Canada Research Chair in Migration Law. She joined the Faculty in 2002 from the University of Sydney, and has served as the Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Research. Professor Dauvergne completed her Ph.D. in Law at the Australian National University and her undergraduate law training at UBC. She was law clerk to Chief Justice Antonio Lamer.

Professor Dauvergne's research is in the areas of immigration and refugee law.  She has been involved in internationally collaborative work regarding first instance refugee decision making and she led an interdisciplinary project examining gender issues in Canada's refugee decision making system.  She is currently completing a SSHRC project examining humanitarian and compassionate exceptions to Canada's Immigration and Refugee Protection Act.  Professor Dauvergne's most recent book is Making People Illegal: What Globalization Means for Migration and Law, published by Cambridge University Press in 2008.  Her newest research will examine why international human rights norms are not working well for non-citizens in Canada and will consider the role of Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms in this failure.

Courses

• Immigration Law
• Topics in Immigration and Refugee Law
• Ph.D. Seminar
• Transnational Law

Research Interests

• Immigration Law
• Refugee Law
• Legal Theory and Globalization

Representative Published Works

• Making People Illegal: What Globalization Means for Migration and Law, Cambridge University Press, 2008.
• Humanitarianism, Identity and Nation: Migration Laws of Australia and Canada 2005, UBC Press.
• "Forced Marriage and the Exoticization of Gender Harms in U.S. Asylum Law" (2011) 19.4 Columbia Journal of Law and Gender (in press, with Jenni Millbank)
• "The Growing Culture of Exclusion: Trends in Canadian Refugee Exclusions" (2011) 23.1 International Journal of Refugee Law 54-92 (with Asha Kaushal).
• "Forced Marriage as a Harm in Domestic and International Law" (2010) 73 Mod. L. Rev. 57-88 (with Jenni Millbank)
• "Chief Justice Lamer's Leadership in Feminist Times" (2009) 46 Sup. Ct. L. Rev. (2d) 353-378
• "Security and Migration Law in the Less Brave New World" (2007) 16:3 Social and Legal Studies 533-549.

Publications listed on the UBC Law Library Faculty Research Publications Database