Dr. Kyle Kirkup's research explores the role of constitutional law, criminal law, and family law in regulating contemporary norms of gender identity and sexuality.
Professor Kirkup’s work has appeared in the University of Toronto Law Journal, the Canadian Journal of Law and Society, the Ottawa Law Review, the Supreme Court Law Review, the Osgoode Hall Law Journal, the Windsor Review of Legal and Social Issues, and the Journal of Race, Gender and Ethnicity. He is currently working on a book length manuscript, under contract with UBC Press, titled Law and Order Queers: Respectability, Victimhood, and the Carceral State.
Professor Kirkup holds a doctorate from the University of Toronto Faculty of Lawnorth_eastexternal link (SJD 2017), where he was a 2013 Trudeau Scholarnorth_eastexternal link and a SSHRCnorth_eastexternal link Canada Graduate Scholar. He also studied at Yale Law Schoolnorth_eastexternal link (LLM 2012), the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law (JD 2009), and the College of the Humanities at Carleton Universitynorth_eastexternal link (BHum 2006).
In 2010-2011, Professor Kirkup served as a law clerk to the Honourable Madam Justice Louise Charron at the Supreme Court of Canadanorth_eastexternal link. He also taught advanced constitutional law in the Faculty of Lawnorth_eastexternal link at Western University and worked at McCarthy Tétrault LLPnorth_eastexternal link in Toronto. He was called to the Bar of Ontario in 2010.
Professor Kirkup is a frequent media contributor, most recently publishing editorials in The Globe and Mail, the National Post, and TVO on topics including same-sex marriagenorth_eastexternal link, solitary confinementnorth_eastexternal link, judicial complaintsnorth_eastexternal link, sex worknorth_eastexternal link, and HIV non-disclosurenorth_eastexternal link. He has also been interviewed by media outlets including the CBCnorth_eastexternal link, The Globe and Mail, Le Devoirnorth_eastexternal link, Global Newsnorth_eastexternal link, the Toronto Starnorth_eastexternal link, the National Postnorth_eastexternal link, TVO’s The Agendanorth_eastexternal link, BBC Canadanorth_eastexternal link, The McGill Law Journal Podcastnorth_eastexternal link, and Torontoistnorth_eastexternal linkabout his research.
Professor Kirkup has appeared before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights as an expert witness on the criminalization of HIV non-disclosurenorth_eastexternal link and sex worknorth_eastexternal link. He has appeared before the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights as an expert witness on human rights in Canada's federal prisons. He has written expert reports on LGBTQ human rights issues in policing and corrections settings for the Office of the Correctional Investigatornorth_eastexternal link and the Ontario Human Rights Commissionnorth_eastexternal link. He also served as the principal investigator and author of Best Practices in Policing and LGBTQ Communities in Ontarionorth_eastexternal link. Professor Kirkup also served on the Board of Directors of MAX: Ottawa’s Health Connection for Guys into Guysnorth_eastexternal link.
For more information, visit www.kylekirkup.comnorth_eastexternal link.