Sean Rehaag

Centre for Refugee Studies, Refugee Law Lab & Osgoode Hall Law School, York University

Director & Associate Professor

4700 Keele Street

Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3

Canada

http://www.osgoode.yorku.ca/rehaag-sean/

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

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Scholarly Papers (29)

1.

Judicial Review of Refugee Determinations: The Luck of the Draw?

Queen's Law Journal, Vol. 38, No. 1, 2012, Osgoode CLPE Research Paper No. 9/2012
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 24 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 09 Mar 2013
Sean Rehaag
Centre for Refugee Studies, Refugee Law Lab & Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
Downloads 1,762 (20,453)
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Refugee law, immigration law, administrative law, public law, adjudication, Canada, Federal Court, access to justice, empirical legal studies

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Judicial Review of Refugee Determinations (II): Revisiting the Luck of the Draw

Queen's Law Journal, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 17 Sep 2018 Last Revised: 08 Dec 2018
Sean Rehaag
Centre for Refugee Studies, Refugee Law Lab & Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
Downloads 906 (53,927)
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Refugee law, immigration law, administrative law, adjudication, judicial behaviour, access to justice, empirical legal studies, Canada, Federal Court

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Luck of the Draw III: Using AI to Extract Data About Decision-Making in Federal Court Stays of Removal

(2024) 49:2 Queen’s LJ 73, Refugee Law Lab Working Paper (11 January 2023), Osgoode Legal Studies Research Paper No. 4322881
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 12 Jan 2023 Last Revised: 24 Dec 2024
Sean Rehaag
Centre for Refugee Studies, Refugee Law Lab & Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
Downloads 716 (73,980)
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Immigration Law, Stay of Removal, Interlocutory Orders, Judicial Analytics, Empirical Legal Studies, Computational Law, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Large Language Models, Federal Court, Canada

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'I Simply Do Not Believe': A Case Study of Credibility Determinations in Canadian Refugee Adjudication

38 Windsor Review of Legal and Social Issues 28
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 07 Jul 2017 Last Revised: 08 Jul 2017
Sean Rehaag
Centre for Refugee Studies, Refugee Law Lab & Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
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Refugee, Credibility, Empirical, Canada, Administrative Law, Bias

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Access to Justice for Refugees: How Legal Aid and Quality of Counsel Impact Fairness and Efficiency in Canada's Asylum System

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 14 Dec 2021
York University - Centre for Refugee Studies, Centre for Refugee Studies, Refugee Law Lab & Osgoode Hall Law School, York University and York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
Downloads 706 (75,294)
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Access to Justice; Quality of Counsel; Refugee Law; Canada

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Patrolling the Borders of Sexual Orientation: Bisexual Refugee Claims in Canada

McGill Law Journal, Vol. 53, p. 59, 2008
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 04 Sep 2009
Sean Rehaag
Centre for Refugee Studies, Refugee Law Lab & Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
Downloads 667 (80,934)

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refugee, asylum, bisexual, bisexuality, sexual orientation, law, Canada, queer theory, compulsory heterosexuality, persecution, empirical

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Claim Types in Canada’s Refugee Determination System: An Empirical Snapshot (2013-2021)

Refugee Law Lab Working Paper (29 January 2023), Osgoode Legal Studies Research Paper No. 4341740
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 31 Jan 2023
Sean Rehaag
Centre for Refugee Studies, Refugee Law Lab & Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
Downloads 629 (87,187)

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Refugee Law, Immigration Law, Canada, Empirical, Quantitative, Political Opinion, Gender, Sexual Orientation, Religion, Race, Ethnicity

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Troubling Patterns in Canadian Refugee Adjudication

Ottawa Law Review, Vol. 39, No. 2, 2008
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 05 Sep 2009
Sean Rehaag
Centre for Refugee Studies, Refugee Law Lab & Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
Downloads 609 (90,856)
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refugee, law, Canada, sucess rates, inconsistencies, refugee appeal division, empirical

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Unappealing: An Assessment of the Limits on Appeal Rights in Canada's New Refugee Determination System

(2016) 49:1 UBC Law Review 203, Osgoode Legal Studies Research Paper No. 42/2015
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 21 Aug 2015 Last Revised: 04 Jul 2016
Angus Gavin Grant and Sean Rehaag
York University - Osgoode Hall Law School and Centre for Refugee Studies, Refugee Law Lab & Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
Downloads 598 (92,993)
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Refugee Law, Administrative Law, Canada, Empirical Legal Studies

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No Refuge: Hungarian Romani Refugee Claimants in Canada

Osgoode Hall Law Journal, Forthcoming, Osgoode Legal Studies Research Paper No. 12/2015
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 02 Apr 2015 Last Revised: 03 Apr 2015
University of Western Ontario - Department of Anthropology, York University - Osgoode Hall Law School and Centre for Refugee Studies, Refugee Law Lab & Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
Downloads 563 (100,401)
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Refugee Law, Canada, Hungary, Roma, Administrative Decision-Making, Institutional Bias, Quality of Counsel, Empirical Legal Research

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The Role of Counsel in Canada's Refugee Determination System: An Empirical Assessment

Osgoode Hall Law Journal, Vol. 49, p. 71, 2011
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 29 Jun 2011 Last Revised: 24 Nov 2011
Sean Rehaag
Centre for Refugee Studies, Refugee Law Lab & Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
Downloads 519 (111,010)

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Refugees, Canada, Legal Aid, Lawyers, Immigration Consultants, Empirical

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Experimenting with Credibility in Refugee Adjudication: Gaydar

9:1 Canadian Journal of Human Rights 1, 2020
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 24 Aug 2020
Sean Rehaag and Hilary Evans Cameron
Centre for Refugee Studies, Refugee Law Lab & Osgoode Hall Law School, York University and Lincoln Alexander School of Law, Toronto Metropolitan University
Downloads 440 (135,387)

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Refugee, Asylum, Sexual Minorities, LGBTQ, Gender, Sexuality, Credibility, Evidence, Fact-Finding, Gaydar, Experimental, Refugee Law, Canada, Administrative Law

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Bisexuals Need Not Apply: A Comparative Appraisal of Refugee Law and Policy in Canada, the United States, and Australia

International Journal of Human Rights, Vol. 13, No. 2, p. 415, 2009
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 27 Sep 2010
Sean Rehaag
Centre for Refugee Studies, Refugee Law Lab & Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
Downloads 389 (155,913)
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bisexuality, sexual orientation, refugee, asylum, law, credibility, Canada, Australia, United States

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Transgender Erasure: Barriers Facing Transgender Refugees in Canada

McGill Law Journal, Volume 69, No. 1. Pp 49-96, Osgoode Legal Studies Research Paper No. 4545355
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 19 Aug 2023
Alexandra Verman and Sean Rehaag
Refugee Law Lab and Centre for Refugee Studies, Refugee Law Lab & Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
Downloads 320 (192,954)

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Refugee Law, Transgender, Sexual Orientation, Gender, Canada, Refugee Status Determination, Mixed Methods, Quantitative, Interviews

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Legalbench: A Collaboratively Built Benchmark for Measuring Legal Reasoning in Large Language Models

2023 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, Datasets and Benchmarks Track, Osgoode Legal Studies Research Paper No. 4583531
Number of pages: 143 Posted: 06 Dec 2023
Stanford University, Stanford Law School, Stanford Law School, Stanford University, University of Chicago - Law School, Maxime Tools, Stanford University - Department of Management Science & Engineering, Stanford University, Georgetown University, Dartmouth College - Department of Mathematics, Stanford University, Maxime Tools, LawBeta, University of California, Santa Barbara, South Texas College of Law Houston, University of Toronto - Faculty of Law, University of Nebraska College of Law, Harvard University, Harvard Law School, Stanford Law School, Stanford University, Stanford University, University of Bern - Faculty of Science, Stanford University - CodeX - Center for Legal Informatics, University of Southern California, Georgetown University Law Center, Stanford Legal Design Lab, Stanford University - Stanford Codex Center, University of Virginia School of Law, Maxime Tools, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Princeton University - Center for Information Technology Policy, Centre for Refugee Studies, Refugee Law Lab & Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Harvard University, Casetext, California Western School of Law, Indiana University Bloomington, Harvard Law School, Independent and Stanford University
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legal practice, law and technology, large language models, artificial intelligence, empirical legal methods, machine learning

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Do Women Refugee Judges Really Make a Difference? An Empirical Analysis of Gender and Outcomes in Canadian Refugee Determinations

Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, Vol. 23, p. 627, 2011
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 25 Nov 2011
Sean Rehaag
Centre for Refugee Studies, Refugee Law Lab & Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
Downloads 307 (201,724)

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Gender, Judging, Law, Refugee, Immigration, Empirical, Canada

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The Right to Seek Asylum in Canada (During a Global Pandemic)

Osgoode Hall Law Journal (Forthcoming), Osgoode Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 09 Sep 2020
Elise Mercier and Sean Rehaag
North Star Immigration Law and Centre for Refugee Studies, Refugee Law Lab & Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
Downloads 263 (236,708)
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Refugee law, Canada, pandemic, COVID, interdiction, safe third country agreement

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Promoting Privacy, Fairness and the Open Court Principle in Immigration and Refugee Proceedings

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 28 Nov 2021
Jon Khan and Sean Rehaag
York University - Osgoode Hall Law School and Centre for Refugee Studies, Refugee Law Lab & Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
Downloads 248 (251,106)

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Privacy, Open Court Principle, Privacy, Fairness, Federal Court, Canada, Refugee Law, Immigration Law, Legal Technology

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Bordering on Legality: Canadian Church Sanctuary and the Rule of Law

Refuge, Vol. 26, No. 1, p. 43, 2009
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 23 Sep 2010
Sean Rehaag
Centre for Refugee Studies, Refugee Law Lab & Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
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Sanctuary, Refugee, Canada, Rule of Law, Religion, Legal Pluralism, Civil Disobedience

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Immigration Detention meets Evidence Law: a discussion paper

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 13 Sep 2021
York University - Osgoode Hall Law School, Centre for Refugee Studies, Refugee Law Lab & Osgoode Hall Law School, York University and York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
Downloads 170 (356,783)
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Evidence law, immigration detention, administrative law

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Tough-On-Refugees Policy Reflects Badly on Canada (Les réfugiés écartés - La protection des demandeurs d'asile n'est pas un acte de générosité, mais une obligation juridique du Canada)

La Presse, Montréal, p. A22, 2009
Number of pages: 1 Posted: 02 Dec 2009 Last Revised: 18 May 2016
McGill University - Faculty of Law, Government of Canada - Federal Court of Appeal, University of Ottawa - Faculty of LawUniversity of Ottawa - Common Law Section and Centre for Refugee Studies, Refugee Law Lab & Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
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Canada, Immigration, Refugees, Jason Kenney

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Sexual Orientation in Canada's Revised Refugee Determination System: An Empirical Snapshot

Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, Vol. 29 (2017)
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 19 Nov 2018
Sean Rehaag
Centre for Refugee Studies, Refugee Law Lab & Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
Downloads 126 (455,217)

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Refugee law, Sexual Orientation, Gender, Canada, Administrative Law, Empirical Legal Studies

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Judgments v Reasons in Federal Court Refugee Claim Judicial Reviews: A Bad Precedent?

44:2 Dalhousie Law Journal (forthcoming), Osgoode Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 13 Sep 2021
Sean Rehaag and Pierre-André Thériault
Centre for Refugee Studies, Refugee Law Lab & Osgoode Hall Law School, York University and University of Toronto, Faculty of Law
Downloads 118 (478,749)

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Canada, Administrative Law, Refugee Law, Judicial Decision-Making, Judgments, Reasons, Empirical Legal Studies,

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“The Biggest Problem With You…”: Racial profiling and Canada’s program of extra-territorial migrant interdiction

Osgoode Hall Law Journal [forthcoming], Osgoode Legal Studies Research Paper No. 4640147
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 28 Nov 2023
York University - Osgoode Hall Law School, University of New Brunswick, Faculty of Law, Air Passenger Rights and Centre for Refugee Studies, Refugee Law Lab & Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
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refugee interdiction, eletronic travel authorization, racial profiling, Canadian immigration law, aviation law

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Canadian “Dreamers”: Access to Postsecondary Education

Osgoode Legal Studies Research Paper No. 4336398
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 24 Jan 2023
North Star Immigration Law, Centre for Refugee Studies, Refugee Law Lab & Osgoode Hall Law School, York University and FCJ Refugee Centre
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Immigration Law, Postsecondary Education, Canada, Precarious Legal Status, Undocumented, Dreamers, Humanitarian Assistance

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Restricted Access to Justice for Canadians Mistreated Abroad: Abdelrazik v. Canada (Re: Interim Costs)

Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice, Vol. 29, No. 1, 2011
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 29 Jul 2011
Sean Rehaag
Centre for Refugee Studies, Refugee Law Lab & Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
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Access to Justice, Interim Costs, Anti-terrorism, National Security, Canada, Constitutional Litigation

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A Snapshot of the Law in the Streets: Reflections of a Former Parkdale Academic Director

Journal of Law and Social Policy 32. (2020): 32-44
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 15 May 2020
Sean Rehaag
Centre for Refugee Studies, Refugee Law Lab & Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
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Clinical legal education, experiential legal education, poverty law, community lawyering, access to justice, reflective practice

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Never Letting a Good Crisis Go to Waste: Canadian Interdiction of Asylum Seekers

Osgoode Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 21 Jan 2021
Sean Rehaag, Janet Song and Alexander Toope
Centre for Refugee Studies, Refugee Law Lab & Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Osgoode Hall Law School of York University and Osgoode Hall Law School of York University
Downloads 63 (701,861)

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COVID-19, 9/11, refugees, asylum seekers, Canada, safe third country

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Making Space for Online Research Experiments in Law School Courses

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 13 Aug 2024 Last Revised: 24 Dec 2024
Hilary Evans Cameron and Sean Rehaag
Lincoln Alexander School of Law, Toronto Metropolitan University and Centre for Refugee Studies, Refugee Law Lab & Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
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Other Papers (1)

Total Downloads: 121
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Are Publication and Citation Counts Reliable Indicators of Research Productivity or Impact?

(2018) 43:2 Canadian Law Library Review 26
Number of pages: 2 Posted: 13 Jun 2018 Last Revised: 20 Jun 2018
Sean Rehaag
Centre for Refugee Studies, Refugee Law Lab & Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
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research metrics, research indicators, publication counts, citattion counts, bibliometrics, new managerialism, law schools