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Graduate Student Profile
Miller, Brad
Field: Canadian
Supervisor: Jim Phillips (Faculty of Law)
Thesis: Emptying the Den of Thieves: International Fugitives in Canada, 1842-1920
My thesis focuses on international fugitives. It draws together three issues: extradition, deportation, and kidnapping. Each embroiled British North America in sometimes global controversies, and involved the colonies in some of the most provocative debates of the period ? over political asylum and the development of international law, for example. But alongside legal innovations and even the eventual advent of formal deportation powers, illegal, cross-border kidnappings continued, often committed by police officers or prosecutors. As a result, this thesis will show how police officers and vigilantes, as well as policymakers and judges, crafted a legal order of enormous significance.
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