Kyle Kirkup
Kyle Kirkup
Associate Professor

S.J.D. (Toronto)
LL.M. (Yale)
J.D. (Ottawa)
B.Hum. (Carleton)

Room
FTX 326


Biography

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 Lawexternal link (SJD 2017), where he was a 2013 Trudeau Scholarexternal link and a SSHRCexternal link Canada Graduate Scholar. He also studied at Yale Law Schoolexternal link (LLM 2012), the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law (JD 2009), and the College of the Humanities at Carleton Universityexternal 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 Canadaexternal link. He also taught advanced constitutional law in the Faculty of Lawexternal link at Western University and worked at McCarthy Tétrault LLPexternal 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 marriageexternal linksolitary confinementexternal linkjudicial complaintsexternal linksex workexternal link, and HIV non-disclosureexternal link. He has also been interviewed by media outlets including the CBCexternal linkThe Globe and MailLe Devoirexternal linkGlobal Newsexternal link, the Toronto Starexternal link, the National Postexternal linkTVO’s The Agendaexternal linkBBC Canadaexternal linkThe McGill Law Journal Podcastexternal link, and Torontoistexternal 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-disclosureexternal link and sex workexternal 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 Investigatorexternal link and the Ontario Human Rights Commissionexternal link. He also served as the principal investigator and author of Best Practices in Policing and LGBTQ Communities in Ontarioexternal link. Professor Kirkup also served on the Board of Directors of MAX: Ottawa’s Health Connection for Guys into Guysexternal link

For more information, visit www.kylekirkup.comexternal link.

Other Contacts

Twitter: @kylekirkup