Graham Hudson is an Associate Professor and Associate Dean, Academic at the Lincoln Alexander School of Law. He holds law degrees from Osgoode (PhD), Queens (LLM) and U of T (J.D.). He teaches in the areas of criminal law, immigration and refugee law, constitutional law, and legal theory. He currently holds a SSHRC grant focusing on sanctuary cities, federalism, and the policing of migrants. He is also conducting research on the genealogy of secret trials in the British Empire. Hudson’s research is in the areas of jurisdiction, the local governance of migration, urban securitization, constitutional law, and legal pluralism.

His current research is organized around a SSHRC-funded socio-legal study of the sanctuary city/access without fear movement in Canada. It aims to identify factors affecting the implementation of sanctuary policies, with special emphasis on community capacity building and the strengthening of municipal jurisdiction over privacy and data. Hudson is also conducting research on the use of secret evidence in Canadian courts, including security certificates, terrorism trials, and civil litigation.