Kate Mitchell and Malcolm Thorburn (supplied images)
Malcolm Thorburn and Kate Mitchell recognized by Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation
Published: July 15, 2024
Professor Malcolm Thorburn and doctoral candidate Kate Mitchell of the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law have been recognized by the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation for their research excellence.
Thorburn was named a 2024 fellow of the foundation. Holding an Innovation Chair in the Legal, Ethical & Cultural Implications of Technological Innovation in the Faculty of Law, his research focuses on theoretical issues in criminal justice and public law including criminal law and procedure, sentencing, policing, constitutional rights and proportionality reasoning. He is an associate editor of the New Criminal Law Review and a member of the editorial boards of Law and Philosophy and Criminal Law and Philosophy.
Mitchell was named one of 16 scholars by the Trudeau Foundation. A doctoral candidate who previously worked as a criminal and prison lawyer, Mitchell is developing a legal framework to protect the rule of law in prisons. As a volunteer with the Canadian Prison Law Association, Mitchell has prepared intervention submissions for two cases that went before the Supreme Court of Canada and various submissions responding to legislation impacting prisoners’ rights. She also appeared before the Senate on behalf of the Criminal Lawyers’ Association on a prisoners’ rights bill.
