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Jamie Chai Yun Liew (she/her)

@jcyliew.bsky.social
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linktr.ee/jcyliew | Prof | Lawyer | Novel DANDELION | wherever you find your books - out now - GHOST CITIZENS |Podcast Migration Conversations |

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Cynthia Khoo @cyn-k.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
So glad sthg like this is finally happening, largely thx to @kristenthomasen.bsky.social. Been ~2.5 years now of layers of disheartenment & sustained moral injury (5 if count covid), and a public discussion focused specifically on Canadian complicity, from a tech /tech law angle, is long overdue.
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Technical Collaborators: Canada's Tech-Facilitated Complicity with ICE and Beyond
Date: Tuesday, March 10, 2026 Time: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Location: Zoom (Virtual) - Link to be shared prior to event Registration is required....
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Kristen Thomasen @kristenthomasen.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
The panel will feature the brilliant: @jcyliew.bsky.social @jamesyap.bsky.social @jeff.doctor and Jason Toney @cjpme.org. Tuesday Mar 10, from 4-5:30pm. CC: @cyn-k.bsky.social @anabrandusescu.bsky.social @jroselkim.bsky.social @windsorlaw.bsky.social
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Kristen Thomasen @kristenthomasen.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
For anyone unsettled by the threads of violence unspooling around the world, looking for steps forward, esp in the Canadian context, please join this: Panel Discussion untangling Canada’s tech-involvement w/ ICE and Beyond. Free, via Zoom, register here: uwindsor-law.libcal.com/event/4000495
uwindsor-law.libcal.com
Technical Collaborators: Canada's Tech-Facilitated Complicity with ICE and Beyond
Date: Tuesday, March 10, 2026 Time: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Location: Zoom (Virtual) - Link to be shared prior to event Registration is required....
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Cynthia Khoo @cyn-k.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
We have an incredible speaker line-up, too!! Ft Kristen as moderator; feminist migration & public law expert @jcyliew.bsky.social; @jamesyap.bsky.social, counsel in Nevsun v Araya(!!); @jeff.doctor, never lacking for 🔥 takes, esp re Indigenous sovereignty; & Jason Toney @cjpme.org, already on it.
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Jamie Chai Yun Liew (she/her) @jcyliew.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Greenberg Chair’s 1st event on Friday Sep 19 4-7pm. Film screening, book signing and panel with Sook Yin Lee, Chester Brown, Chris Bruckert and Ummni Khan!! Join us #sexwork #sexworkiswork #law #greenbergchair #payingforit
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Ariel Troster @arieltroster.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
I devoured two vacation reads already, both focusing on themes of migration, anti-Asian racism and resistance. Both totally addictive. Highly recommend both. And the author of Dandelion (@jcyliew.bsky.social) is from Ottawa, with scenes set in Chinatown.
Hand holding the book Dandelion by  Jamie Chai Yun Liew, a dog asleep on the blanket in front of her Hand holding the cover of the book Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Great post from Bijal Shah on administrative law and immigration law under the Trump regime.
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Abandoning Administrative Law During a Presidential Immigration Crisis
While the Administrative Procedure Act can constrain the worst abuses of the Trump administration's immigration regime, the Supreme Court has shown little appetite for such administrative review.
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Gillian Calder (she/her) @gcalder.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Important insights from @jcyliew.bsky.social and Natasha Bakht on academic freedoms, intersectionality, missed opportunities for dialogue, and Jane Doe. A model for how to move through conflict and misjudgment, constructively and with care. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 🤲
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Reflections from An Erstwhile Signature Feminist Lecture: Cancellation, Academic Freedom and the Model Minority Academic
<p><span>We are two full professors who have held or currently (at the time of writing) hold the Shirley E. Greenberg Chair in Women and the Legal Profession at
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Jamie Chai Yun Liew (she/her) @jcyliew.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Thank you!
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NPR @npr.org · 15/05/2025
A pair of U.K. scholars discovered the mislabeled document in Harvard Law School's digital archives. The university bought it for just $27.50 in 1946. It turned out to be an authentic copy dating to 1300.
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Harvard learned it has an authentic Magna Carta. In 1946, it paid less than $28 for it
A pair of U.K. scholars discovered the mislabled document in Harvard Law School's digital archives. The university bought it for just $27.50 in 1946. It turned out to be an authentic copy dating to 1...
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Jamie Chai Yun Liew (she/her) @jcyliew.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Important case being heard at the #SCC on equality rights of immigrants/migrants in Canada and access to important services like child care. The Canadian Council for Refugees is intervening but so is FCJ Refugee Centre and the Madhu Verma Migrant Justice Centre. Watch: www.scc-csc.ca/cases-dossie...
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Supreme Court of Canada | Live hearing
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Jamie Chai Yun Liew (she/her) @jcyliew.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Intervener for an individual who is currently in medium security - Her experience using the system - Grievance system is like putting a message in a bottle and hoping someone will find it.
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Jamie Chai Yun Liew (she/her) @jcyliew.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Context matters. Serious issues with the rule of law in prisons. Interveners again bring life to the experience of persons in prison.
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Jamie Chai Yun Liew (she/her) @jcyliew.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Brilliant submission by BLAC - the prison is a colonial and systemic anti-black racist institution and this must inform the court's decision. Respond to full context and realities of prisoners.
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Jamie Chai Yun Liew (she/her) @jcyliew.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Enjoying how interveners are calling the court to consider equality principles in the prison context and access to habeas corpus and to take judicial notice of the racism in prisons.
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Jamie Chai Yun Liew (she/her) @jcyliew.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Vavilov for the middle ages - Habeas corpus is about justification - brilliant submission by counsel West Coast Prison Justice Society. My count - Vavilov mentioned 3 times now.
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Jamie Chai Yun Liew (she/her) @jcyliew.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Noting how many interveners referring to the record - so important to have expert evidence that can support such broad interventions by organizations that represent the most marginalized.
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Jamie Chai Yun Liew (she/her) @jcyliew.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Really enjoying how interveners bring to life experiences of persons in prison - like how much fresh air and human contact they get. How many Indigenous people are in max security institutions.
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Jamie Chai Yun Liew (she/her) @jcyliew.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Interveners are up. Kudos to my partner, @jendagsvik.bsky.social who delivered stellar submissions
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Jamie Chai Yun Liew (she/her) @jcyliew.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
John Howard Society - Parl free to set up an advantageous system akin to HC. No independent process. Only remedy is to file grievance. JR not an adequate safeguard.
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Jamie Chai Yun Liew (she/her) @jcyliew.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
John Howard Society now up - Judicial Review is discretionary. Available only after a final grievance dec. JR fails 10(c) requirements - no timely review and no direct review of the classifications or transfers - only final level grievance dec. Dec to detain (classification) insulated fr direct rev
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Jamie Chai Yun Liew (she/her) @jcyliew.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Jamal J: Can we undertake the inquiry?
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Jamie Chai Yun Liew (she/her) @jcyliew.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Jamal J: Asking if narrow window possible - to have the BUT FOR be used as a legal question.
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Jamie Chai Yun Liew (she/her) @jcyliew.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Kasirer J: conflates existence of lawfulness branch of this test and reduces ambit of the remedy provided by writ. Consequence is serious. Remedy unique to writ is not available.
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Jamie Chai Yun Liew (she/her) @jcyliew.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
O’Bonsawin J: Needs checks and balances in systems where it needs it! Yes.
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Jamie Chai Yun Liew (she/her) @jcyliew.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
O’Bonsawin J also points out that Black ppl affected too. They are having similar issues. [yes]
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Jamie Chai Yun Liew (she/her) @jcyliew.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
SUCH an important issue - lived realities of Indigenous persons in prison. [Representation matters]
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Jamie Chai Yun Liew (she/her) @jcyliew.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
O’Bonsawin J - You want us to go back to the administrative system and she points out treatment of Indigenous persons in corrections. Substantive - where Indigenous ppl can't get remedy in regular corrections system because stats show higher % in max
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Jamie Chai Yun Liew (she/her) @jcyliew.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Kasirer J: To stop HC coming forward puts us in situation where person can be continued deprivation of liberty - they have a legitimate basis and cts supposed to say no you are in the wrong box.
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Jamie Chai Yun Liew (she/her) @jcyliew.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Kasirer J: Can't conflate threshold with the finding of remedy
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Jamie Chai Yun Liew (she/her) @jcyliew.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Jamal J: If there is illegality in denial of transfer then arguable there has to be a narrow window for an expeditious remedy. Is the std plain and manifest that right has crystallized. (yes)
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Jamie Chai Yun Liew (she/her) @jcyliew.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Side note: BUT what if the system doesn't work like in Chhina.
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Jamie Chai Yun Liew (she/her) @jcyliew.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Rowe J: Built in the institutional design is recognition of differentiation of expertise and proper administrative roles v judicial level who review on lawfulness, consistency etc. Institutional structure now evaded w 24(1) broad remedial authority. Institutional design undermined.
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Jamie Chai Yun Liew (she/her) @jcyliew.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Karakatsanis J: Doesn't it depend on nature of unlawfulness - BUT FOR unlawful dec they would be transferred to min security. Deprivation of liberty is a 1st step - circular to say depends whether dec lawful. Some kinds of lawfulness would deprive liberty where clear would have been transferred.
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Jamie Chai Yun Liew (she/her) @jcyliew.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Moreau J discusses how repeated denials might become unlawful and deprivation of liberty and access to a court might be the only remedy. YES
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Jamie Chai Yun Liew (she/her) @jcyliew.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Côté J rightly asks what happens when things go wrong in the review process? DOJ counsel: raises Chhina. Yes, Chhina - the last time the SCC preserved right to HC where there was a maladministration of the detention review process.
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Jamie Chai Yun Liew (she/her) @jcyliew.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Jamal J - should the law change? Statutory framework could be eliminated by Parliament. Does this collapse and obliterate any distinct character of HC and subsume into Vavilovian reasonableness
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Jamie Chai Yun Liew (she/her) @jcyliew.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
DOJ establishing the threshold not met which is deprivation of liberty.
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Jamie Chai Yun Liew (she/her) @jcyliew.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Rowe J intervening to say HC cuts through and places matter before courts immediately and it is an ideal remedy.
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Jamie Chai Yun Liew (she/her) @jcyliew.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
DOJ arguing that there is a creation of new liberties in this case.
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Jamie Chai Yun Liew (she/her) @jcyliew.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
DOJ arguing for a narrow understanding - security classification changes are not releases.
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Jamie Chai Yun Liew (she/her) @jcyliew.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Counsel: lack of procedurally fair hearing can be a focus of habeas. Absence of procedural fairness - failure of hearing that can lead to release. Cts can exercise discretion to grant release or not
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Jamie Chai Yun Liew (she/her) @jcyliew.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Counsel: Overlap and possibility that remedy similar is not a reason to deny habeas when right is of substantive importance. Speed of access, nature of remedy, right to a hearing that is nondiscretionary - more advantageous and why this court has said overlap not a basis to deny
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Jamie Chai Yun Liew (she/her) @jcyliew.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Counsel: appropriate standard is reasonableness and is deferential. Requires articulation of grounds and a culture of justification. The rule of law behind prison walls.
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Jamie Chai Yun Liew (she/her) @jcyliew.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Get your bingo cards out: Rowe J asked if the reasonableness standard is Vavilovian.
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Jamie Chai Yun Liew (she/her) @jcyliew.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Counsel: In HC, prisoner raises ground of legality - has this burden to show arbitrary. Ct has to assess whether burden is satisfied.
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Jamie Chai Yun Liew (she/her) @jcyliew.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Sidebar - I love how counsel is trying to remind the bench that we're dealing with a Charter protected right.
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Jamie Chai Yun Liew (she/her) @jcyliew.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Karakatsanis J - What is the nature of the mandatory - why remedy in HC requires transfer to min security classification. Counsel - there is a residual discretion to grant release. No discretion to hold hearing to assess legality but granting remedy there is a residual discretion.
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Jamie Chai Yun Liew (she/her) @jcyliew.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Counsel Orkin rightly points out JR is discretionary and that habeas corpus is as of right where deprivation of liberty is unlawful.
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Jamie Chai Yun Liew (she/her) @jcyliew.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Sidebar - curious that having access to multiple remedies is seen as potentially unsound doctrinally?
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