Malcolm Thorburn

He was named a fellow of the Trudeau Foundation in 2024 (2024-2027). In winter 2025, he will be the Nathaniel Fensterstock Visiting Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, New York, USA. In the 2011-2012 academic year, he was the Robert S. Campbell visiting fellow at Magdalen College, University of Oxford, UK. He has held visiting fellowships at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Freiburg, Germany (2024), Sciences Po, Paris, France (2019), Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, Germany (2011), the French National Centre for Criminology (CESDIP) in Paris, France (2011), and at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia (2008).

His writing focuses on theoretical issues in criminal justice and public law including criminal law and procedure, sentencing, policing, and constitutional questions of rights and proportionality reasoning. He is the editor of two books: The Philosophical Foundations of Constitutional Law (with David Dyzenhaus) and The Dignity of Law (with Dwight Newman). His work has appeared in such publications as the Yale Law Journal, Ratio Juris, the Boston University Law Review, the University of Toronto Law Journal, Criminal Law and Philosophy and many books. 

He is co-convenor of the Legal Theory Workshop, and a member of the editorial boards of Law and Philosophy and Criminal Law and Philosophy.