Biography:

Maureen T. Duffy is a doctoral candidate, O’Brien Fellow, and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Fellow at the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, Faculty of Law, McGill University, in Montreal, Canada. She is originally from the United States, where she obtained her Juris Doctor degree, cum laude, from Loyola University Chicago School of Law, after completing a Bachelor of Science degree in Journalism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is a member of the Bars of the State of Illinois and the Northern District of Illinois. She practiced law in Chicago and has extensive trial and appellate experience, as well as experience before administrative and legislative bodies. She completed her LL.M. degree, with Dean’s Honours, at McGill’s Institute of Comparative Law. Her master’s thesis addressed the use of the immigration system to detain terrorism suspects within the United States. Her doctoral thesis explores shifting presumptions relating to criminal detentions, specifically focusing on these shifts in the context of terrorism detentions in certain liberal democracies.

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