He is also a resident faculty member at York University's Centre for Refugee Studies. He holds common law and civil law degrees from McGill University (2003) and an S.J.D. from the University of Toronto (2008). His main areas of research include immigration and refugee law, human rights, legal pluralism, and empirical analysis of adjudication. His doctoral dissertation, which received the Alan Marks Medal for best graduate thesis in 2008 at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Law, dealt with the legality of Canadian sanctuary practices.