Curriculum Vitae - Osgoode Hall Law School - York University

SEAN REHAAG
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL
YORK UNIVERSITY
4700 KEELE STREET
TORONTO, ONTARIO (M3J 1P3)
TEL: 416.650.8274 FAX: 416.736.5736
EMAIL: srehaag@osgoode.yorku.ca
WEB: http://www.osgoode.yorku.ca/faculty/full-time/sean-rehaag
1. ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
S.J.D., University of Toronto, Faculty of Law (2008)
o Alan Marks Medal (best graduate thesis in 2008)
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Supervisor: Audrey Macklin; External: Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Title: Bordering on Legality: An investigation into the lines ‘we’ draw / the lines that draw ‘us’
(and the spaces in between)
LL.B. & B.C.L., McGill, Faculty of Law (2003)
B.A. (hon), University of British Columbia, Department of Political Science (2000)
2. EMPLOYMENT
2.1. Academic Appointments
Associate Professor, York University, Osgoode Hall Law School (July 2012-Present)
Resident Faculty, York University, Centre for Refugee Studies (July 2009-August 2010)
Assistant Professor, York University, Osgoode Hall Law School (July 2008-June 2012)
2.2. Other Employment History
Research Associate, Université de Montréal, Chaire de recherche du Canada en droit international des
migrations (2006-2008)
Instructor, University of Victoria, Faculty of Law & Department of Political Science (2005-2006)
Instructor, Université de Sherbrooke, Faculté de droit (2005)
Graduate Student Legal Research & Writing Advisor, University of Toronto, Faculty of Law (2004-
2005)
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Teaching Assistant & Research Assistant, University of Toronto, Faculty of Law (2003-2007)
Summer Associate, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP (2003)
Research Assistant, McGill, Faculty of Law (2001-2003)
3. PROFESSIONAL CONTRIBUTION & STANDING
3.1. External Funding
SSHRC, Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences in Canada ($14,218) (principal applicant) Title:
Poverty Law, Access to Justice, and Ethical Lawyering: Celebrating 40 years of Clinical Education at
Osgoode Hall Law School (2011)
FQRSC, Appui aux projets novateurs ($25,000) (group grant: 3 grantees, principal investigator: Viviane
Namaste) Title: Demandes de réfugiées et l’orientation sexuelle au Canada (2008-2011)
SSHRC, Doctoral Award ($40,000) (2005-2007)
OGS, Doctoral Scholarship ($15,000) (2004-2005)
3.2. Internal Funding
York University, SSHRC Small Grants Program ($3,000) Title: The Luck of the Draw: An Empirical
Study of Outcomes in Canadian Refugee Determinations (2011)
York University, SSHRC Grant in Aid of Travel ($500) (2011)
Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Harry Arthurs Collaborative Research Grant ($5,000)
(group grant: 11 grantees) Title: Access to Justice, Law Reform, and Clinical Education: Parkdale
Community Legal Services at 40 (2010-2012)
Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Harry Arthurs Collaborative Research Grant ($5,000)
(group grant: 5 grantees) Title: Empirical Research & Legal Institutional Decision-Making (2009-2010)
York University, SSHRC Grant in Aid of Travel ($700) (2009)
CÉRIUM, Université de Montréal, Bourse postdoctorale ($20,000) (2007-2009) (declined)
IHRP, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, Summer International Human Rights Program Funding
($7,500) (2007)
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, Travel Grants ($2,000) (2004-2007)
SGS, University of Toronto, SGS Research Travel Grant ($1,000) (2006)
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, Doctoral Fellowship ($16,000 per annum) (2003-2005)
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3.3. Research & Publications
3.3.1. Research & Publications Summary
Books (edited) (2)
Book chapters (3)
Refereed journal articles (7)
Case Comments (1)
Book reviews (4)
Guest editor of journal issues (1)
Media publications (6)
Parliamentary committee appearances (2)
Websites (2)
Workshops (4)
Academic presentations (20)
3.3.2. Books (Edited)
Sanctuary Practices in International Perspective (Routledge, forthcoming) (co-edited with Randy
Lippert).
The Civil Litigation Process: Cases and Materials, 7th ed. (Toronto: Emond Montgomery, 2009) (coedited
with Janet Walker, et al.).
3.3.3. Book Chapters
“Article 71” in Olivier Corten and Pierre Klein eds, Commentaries to the Vienna Conventions on the
Law of Treaties (Oxford University Press, forthcoming) (co-authored with Francois Crépeau and René
Côté).
“Introduction to ‘Convergence in Dispute Resolution Processes’”, Proceedings of the International
Association of Procedural Law 2009 (Toronto: Lexis-Nexis Butterworths, 2009) (co-authored with Erik
S. Knutsen).
“Globalization and Instrument Choice: The role of international law” in P. Eliadis, et al (eds.),
Designing Government: From instruments to governance (Montreal: McGill-Queens U. Press, 2004)
322 (co-authored with Stephen J. Toope).
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3.3.4. Refereed Journal Articles
“The Luck of the Draw? Judicial Review of Refugee Determinations in the Federal Court of Canada
(2005-2010)” (forthcoming) Queen’s Law Journal.
“The Role of Counsel in Canada’s Refugee Determination System: An Empirical Assessment” (2011)
49 Osgoode Hall Law Journal 71.
“Do Women Refugee Judges Really Make a Difference? An Empirical Analysis of Gender and
Outcomes in Canadian Refugee Determinations” (2011) 23 Canadian Journal of Women and the Law
627.
“Bordering on Legality: Canadian Church Sanctuary and the Rule of Law” (2009) 26:1 Refuge 43.
“Bisexuals Need Not Apply: A comparative appraisal of refugee law and policy in Canada, the United
States, and Australia” (2009) 13 International Journal of Human Rights 415.
“Patrolling the Borders of Sexual Orientation: Bisexual refugee claims in Canada” (2008) 53 McGill
Law Journal 59.
“Troubling Patterns in Canadian Refugee Adjudication” (2008) 39 Ottawa Law Review 335.
3.3.5. Case Comments
“Restricted Access to Justice for Canadians Mistreated Abroad: Abdelrazik v Canada (Re: Interim
Costs)” (2011) 29:1 Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice.
3.3.6. Book Reviews
“Book Note – The Hart-Fuller Debate in the Twenty-First Century” (2010) 48 Osgoode Hall Law
Journal 691.
“Review – Making People Illegal: What Globalization Means for Migration and Law" (2008) 46
Osgoode Hall Law Journal 871.
“Review – The Rights of Others: Aliens, Residents and Citizens” (2006) 44 Osgoode Hall Law Journal
395.
“Book Note – Governing Sexuality: The changing politics of citizenship and law reform” (2004) 49
McGill Law Journal 1211.
3.3.7. Guest Editor of Journal Issues
“Special Issue: Sanctuary in a Global Context” (2009) 26:1 Refuge (guest editor with Randy Lippert).
3.3.8. Media Publications
“Kenney confuses on permanent residence loss” in Embassy (28 March 2012) (co-authored with Audrey
Macklin & Lorne Waldman).
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“Playing politics with refugees” in The Toronto Star (3 December 2010) (co-authored with Audrey
Macklin).
“Legislation won't stop asylum seekers using human smugglers” in The Edmonton Journal (2 Nov 2010)
(co-authored with Sharryn Aiken, et al).
“Réfugiés écartés” in La Presse (12 November 2009) A22 (co-authored with François Crépeau, et al).
“Adjudication lottery for refugees” in The Toronto Star (30 Aug 2007) A8.
“No one is above the law on refugees: Churches keep Canada from violating international law” in The
Toronto Star (30 July 2004) A19.
3.3.9. Parliamentary Committee Appearances
House of Commons, Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration, 41st Parl, 1st Sess (30 April
2012) (re: Bill C-31: Protecting Canada's Immigration System Act).
House of Commons, Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration, 40th Parl, 3rd Sess (20
October 2010) (re: Bill C-35: The Cracking Down on Crooked Consultants Act).
3.3.10. Websites
“Court Archive: Abdelrazik v. Minister of Foreign Affairs” (2009) Nathanson Centre on Transnational
Human Rights, Crime and Security, online: http://nathanson.osgoode.yorku.ca/abdelrazik.
“Refugee Claim Data & IRB Member Grant Rates” (2007-2012) Canadian Council for Refugees, online:
http://ccrweb.ca/en/2011-refugee-claim-data.
3.3.11. Workshops
“Sexual Minority Refugees in Canada”, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto (Toronto, 2011).
“Proposed Changes to Canada’s Refugee Determination System: A preliminary assessment”, Centre for
Refugee Studies, York University (Toronto, 2010).
“(Un)Safe Haven?: Current Issues in Canadian Refugee Policy & Practice”, Graduate Lunchtime
Speaker Series: World University Services Canada Student Refugee Program, University of Victoria
(Victoria, 2006).
“Canadian Refugee Law”, Center for Gender and Refugee Studies, U.C. Hastings (San Francisco,
2006).
3.3.12. Presentations
“The Luck of the Draw? Judicial Review of Refugee Determinations in the Federal Court of Canada
(2005-2010)”, Federal Court of Canada (Ottawa, 2012), Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers
National Conference (Toronto, 2012) & Canadian Association of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies
(Toronto, 2012).
“Losing Refugee Status: A snapshot of cessation and revocation cases in Canada”, Law and Society
Association (San Francisco, 2011).
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“ The Role of Counsel in Canada’s Refugee Determination System: An empirical assessment”,
Directions and Developments in Refugee Determinations Workshop, University of Toronto (Toronto,
2010).
“The substantive content of "every citizen of Canada" in the Charter: Are citizens whoever Parliament
says they are?”, Canadian Civil Liberties Association (Toronto, 2010).
“Testimony regarding [the claimant's] sexual orientation was inconsistent and confusing to say the
least": Assessing bisexuality at Canada's Immigration and Refugee Board”, Canadian Law and Society
Association (Montreal, 2010) (with Vivane Namaste & Tamar Vukov).
“IRB Refugee Adjudication: The luck of the draw?”, Canadian Law and Society Association (Ottawa,
2009) and International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (Nicosia, Cyprus, 2009).
“Do Women (Refugee) Judges Really Make a Difference? An empirical analysis of gender in Canadian
refugee determinations”, Seminar Series on Empirical Legal Research at the Osgoode Hall Law School
(Toronto, 2009).
“Canadian Church Sanctuary: Making or breaking refugee law”, Centre of Canadian Studies (Edinburgh,
2008).
“Neighborly Accommodation: An alternative to the reasonable accommodation debates”, Immigration,
Minorities and Multiculturalism in Democracies International Conference (Montreal, 2008).
“Church Sanctuary and the Rule of Law”, Law and Society Association (Montreal, 2008).
“Contested Legalities: Church Sanctuary in Canada”, Canadian Law and Society Association
(Saskatoon, 2007).
“Patrolling the Borders of Sexual Orientation: Bisexual Refugee Claims in Canada”, Queer Studies
Easter Symposium (Mexico City, 2007).
“Borders on the Move: Carrier sanctions in Canada & the United States”, Radboud University Seminar
on Passengers as a Risk: Monitoring movement and privatizing threat (Nijmegen, Holland, 2007).
“Bordering on Legality: An Investigation into the Inside ‘/’ Outside of Law”, Interdisciplinary Legal
Studies Graduate Student Conference, University of British Columbia (Vancouver, 2006).
“The Migration of Borders: Challenging the ‘Settlement’ and ‘Integration’ paradigm”, Marie-Curie
Conference: From Immigration Politics to Migration Management (Malta, 2005).
“L’asile religieux: positivisme, pluralisme juridique et le contrôle des frontières”, Colloque de la
recherche étudiante en science politique : frontières et recompositions (Quebec, 2005).
“‘Before the Law Stands a Doorkeeper…’: The paradox of border control”, Canadian Association of
Law Teachers Annual Conference: Law’s Paradoxes (Vancouver, 2005).
“Church Sanctuary Movements and their Legal Implications in North America”, Oxford Brookes
University’s Annual Forced Migration Student Conference (Oxford, 2005).
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“Engendering the State: Masculinist Positivism and Border Control”, Feminism and Legal Theory
Project Conference on The State, Governance and Citizenship Relations (Keele, 2005).
“The Church Sanctuary Debates – A Fullerian Response to the Pathologies of State Border Control?”,
Two-Part Seminar on Lon Fuller & Contemporary Legal Controversies (Montreal, 2005).
4. TEACHING
4.1. Teaching Awards
2011 Osgoode Teaching Excellence Award (less than 10 years teaching experience)
4.2. Undergraduate Courses
2012-2013
Immigration Law
Refugee Law
Directed Research Group: SCC Intervention in Immigration/Refugee Law (with Lorne Waldman)
Legal Process (Civil Procedure Component)
2011-2012
Immigration Law (67 students)
Refugee Law (21 students)
Legal Process (Civil Procedure Component) (78 students)
Supervised Research Papers (Immigration & Refugee Law) (2 students)
2010-2011
Refugee Law (15 students)
Legal Process (Civil Procedure Component) (74 students)
2009-2010
Refugee Law (22 students)
Legal Process (Civil Procedure Component) (74 students)
Supervised Research Papers (Refugee Law) (2 students)
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2008-2009
Refugee Law (26 students)
Legal Process (Civil Procedure Component) (82 students)
Supervised Research Papers (Refugee Law) (2 students)
2005-2006
Civil Procedure (37 students) (Faculty of Law, University of Victoria)
The Canadian Constitution (48 students) (Department of Political Science, University of Victoria)
2004-2005
Civil Procedure (15 students) (Faculté de droit, Université de Sherbrooke)
4.3. Graduate Supervision
4.3.1. PHD Supervision (3 in progress)
Angus Grant (2011 entry) National Security and Immigration Law
Zaglul Haider (2010 entry) Statelessness in Bangladesh
Martin Jones (2003 entry) Refugee Law
4.3.2. LLM Supervision (1 completed)
Anastasia Tataryn (2008-2009) Immigration Law (nominated for thesis prize)
4.3.3. Supervisory Committee Membership (2 completed, 1 in progress)
Veronica Fynn (LLM, 2008-2009 ) Refugee Law
Gowry Sivapathasundaram (LLM, 2008-2009) Refugee law
Graham Hudson (PHD, 2008 entry) International Law
4.3.4. Examination Committee Membership (4 completed)
Reem Abdel-Malek (MA, Public and International Affairs, 2010) Refugee Policy
Don Short (PHD, 2009) Sexual Minority Rights (nominated for thesis prize)
Chikeziri Igwe (PHD, 2009) Human Rights in Africa (nominated for thesis prize)
Veronica Fynn (LLM, 2009 ) Refugee Law
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4.4. Graduate Courses
2011-2012
Guided Study: Refugee Law (3 students)
2010-2011
Guided Study: Refugee Law (1 student)
2008-2009
Guided Study: Refugee Law (3 students)
Independent Research (Immigration Law) (1 student)
4.5. Other Teaching Activities
4.5.1 Guest Lectures in Courses
“Sexual Minority Refugee Claims in Canada”, Guest Lecture at the Civil Liberties Seminar, Faculty of
Law, University of Windsor (2010) and the Centre for Refugee Studies Summer Course on Refugee and
Forced Migration Issues, York University (2010, 2011, 2012)
“Sanctuary”, Guest Lecture at the Spaces of In/Exclusion: From the Camp to the City Seminar, Socio
Legal Studies, York University (2010)
“Empirical Legal Research”, Guest Lecture at the Graduate Seminar, Osgood Hall Law School (2009)
“Canada’s Refugee Regime”, Guest Lecture at the Centre for Refugee Studies Summer Course on
Refugee and Forced Migration Issues, York University (2008 & 2009)
“The Intersections of Family Law and Immigration Law”, Guest Lecture at the International and
Comparative Family Law Seminar, Osgoode Hall Law School (2008, 2009 & 2010)
4.5.2. Organization of Invited Lectures
Sharryn Aiken, Audrey Macklin, Peter Showler, & James Milner, “Assessing Bill C-49: An Act to
Prevent Human Smugglers from Abusing Canada’s Immigration System” (2010).
Rahul Rao, “Workshop on Queer Rights in Uganda” (2010)
Philip G. Schrag & Jaya Ramji-Nogales, “Refugee Roulette: Disparities in Asylum Adjudication and
Proposals for Reform” (2010)
Chris Dolan, Ashley Audet, Craig Scott & Pritnam Baruah, “Sexual Minority Rights in Post-Colonial
Contexts: A Panel on Transnational Human Rights in Uganda and India” (2010)
Yavar Hameed, “Abdelrazik v. Canada: Or How to Promote Two-Tier Canadian Citizenship for
$800,000 or More” (2009)
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5. SERVICE
5.1. Osgoode Administrative Responsibilities
Member of Executive of the Osgoode Hall Faculty of Association (2010-2011 & 2012-present)
Member of the Clinical Education Committee (CEC) of the Osgoode Hall Law School (2008-present)
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Chair of the CEC’s Ad-Hoc Sub-Committee on Freedom of Information and Protection of
Privacy Act Requests and Clinic Records (2009-2011)
Designated Osgoode Faculty Member on the Parkdale Community Legal Services (PCLS) Board of
Directors (2008-present)
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Member of the PCLS Board’s Bargaining Committee (2010-Present)
o Chair of the PCLS Board’s Legal Aid Ontario Policy / Funder Relations Committee (2008-
present)
Member of Osgoode Hall Law School Ad-hoc Panels on Academic Misconduct (2 in 2008-2009)
Member of Osgoode Hall Law School Faculty Council (2008-present)
5.2. Other University Administrative Responsibilities
Member of the Executive of the Centre for Refugee Studies, York University (2011-present)
Member of Council of the Centre for Refugee Studies, York University (2009-present)
5.3. Service to the Academy: Peer Review
2011-2012
Journal of Homosexuality
Journal of International Migration and Integration
2010-2011
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
Social Problems
Transnational Legal Theory
2009-2010
Alberta Law Review
Law and Policy
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Osgoode Hall Law Journal
Ottawa Law Review
University of Toronto Law Journal
2008-2009
Canadian Journal of Women and the Law
Journal of Refugee Studies
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5.4. Service to the Community
Member of the Legal Aid Ontario Refugee Law Advisory Committee (2009-presnt)
Researcher, Asylum Documentation Project, International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission
(2007)
Researcher, Centre for Gender and Refugee Studies (2006)
Pro Bono Legal Services (Graduate Law Student), FCJ Refugee Centre (2003-2008)
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