Jamie Chai Yun Liew

Jamie Chai Yun Liew is the Shirley Greenberg Chair of Women and the Legal Profession and a full professor at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law. She is an expert in immigration, refugee and citizenship law, as well as constitutional, administrative law and public law. She also practices as a lawyer and has appeared at the Supreme Court of Canada, the Federal Court and the Federal Court of Appeal.

Jamie’s current research examines the meaning of citizenship, legal barriers for stateless persons to obtain citizenship/nationality, race and gendered implications of Canadian law on migrants, and how Canada’s immigration and refugee system marginalizes those navigating the process. She is the author of Ghost Citizens: Decolonial Apparitions of Stateless, Foreign and Wayward Figures in law and a novel, Dandelion.