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Marie Manikis

Associate Professor
William Dawson Chair

New Chancellor Day Hall
3644 Peel Street
Room 505
Montreal, Quebec
Canada H3A 1W9

514-398-6624 [Office]
marie.manikis [at] mcgill.ca (Email)

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Marie Manikis

Biography

Marie Manikis is an Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar at the Faculty of Law of Ď㽶ĘÓƵ where she teaches Criminal Justice, Sentencing, Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure. She is a and an adviser for the Sentencing Academy (England and Wales). She is also a Research Associate for the International Centre for Comparative Criminology (University of Montreal) and a member of McGill’s Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism.Ěý

Her scholarship is interdisciplinary, comparative, and uses social science methodologies to advance the available knowledge in criminal law and criminal justice. Her research interests include criminal justice and sentencing, and particularly aspects that relate to victim participation, prosecutorial discretion and accountability, bail and pre-trial detention, as well as principles of Indigenous participation (Gladue p°ůľ±˛Ôł¦ľ±±č±ô±đ˛ő).Ěý

Professor Manikis has published her work in leading peer-reviewed journals including the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, the Cambridge Law Journal, the Modern Law Review, and Public Law.ĚýHer manuscript Victims as Agents of State Accountability is under contract with Oxford University Press, and has been accepted into its distinguished Criminal Law and Justice Series. She is also co-editing the volume Sentencing, Public Opinion, and Criminal Justice: Essays in Honour of Julian V Roberts (with Dr Gabrielle Watson) under contract with Oxford University Press.Ěý

She has received several awards and prizes for her scholarship, including the (2022), the Principal’s Prize for Outstanding Emerging Researcher (2019), the Fondation du Barreau du Quebec’s award for best article (2018), and the Faculty of Law’s Research Merit Award (2017). She was also elected as an associate member of the International Academy of Comparative Law (2021).ĚýĚý

Professor Manikis’ scholarship was cited by various courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada and the Court of Appeal of England and Wales. She also regularly provides policy and consultation reports to government bodies, including the Department of Justice Canada, the Ministry of Justice in England and Wales, and the Canadian Senate. She has presented at several conferences, seminars, and continuing legal education sessions for lawyers and judges and has held visiting researcher positions at the Center for the Study of Law and Society, University of California Berkeley and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security, and Law in Germany.Ěý

She completed a DPhil in law at the University of Oxford (2014), which compared victims’ rights and remedies in England and Wales and the United States. Her doctoral thesis was supported by the SSHRC, the FRQSC, the Maple Leaf Trust, the Peter Birks fund and the Modern Law Review. During her doctoral studies, she taught graduate tutorials in criminal justice at the Centre for Criminology at the University of Oxford and was a Visiting Researcher at Harvard Law School. Prior to this, she practiced law in Montreal and clerked for a Superior Court Justice.Ěý

Professor Manikis is interested in supervising graduate and postdoctoral students working on topics that relate to victims, sentencing, criminal law and criminal justice.Ěý

Publications

Peer-reviewed articles

  • Marie Manikis and Audrey Matheson, “Communicating Censure: The Relevance of Conditions of Imprisonment at Sentencing and During the Administration of the Sentence” (2023) Modern Law Review (forthcoming).
  • Marie Manikis and Nicholas Doiron, “Solitary Confinement and State Harm: Reimagining Sentencing in Light of Dynamic Censure and State Blame” (2023) Punishment & Society (forthcoming).
  • Marie Manikis, “Recognising State Blame in Sentencing: A Communicative and Relational Framework” (2022) 81:2 Cambridge Law Journal 294-322.
  • Marie Manikis, “The Principle of Proportionality in Sentencing: A Dynamic Evolution and Multiplication of Conceptions” (2022) Osgoode Hall Law Journal 587-628.
  • Marie Manikis, “Conceptualising the Victim in England and Wales and the United States Within a Spectrum of Public and Private Interests”Ěý(2021) 41:1ĚýOxford Journal of Legal StudiesĚý219-242.
  • Marie Manikis and Jess De Santi, “Punishment and Retribution Within the Bail Process: An Analysis of the Public Confidence in the Administration of Justice Ground for Pre-Trial Detention” (2020) 35:3ĚýCanadian Journal of Law and SocietyĚý413-435.
  • Marie Manikis and Jess De Santi, “Punishing while Presuming Innocence: A Study on Bail Conditions and Administration of Justice Offences in Quebec” (2019) 60:3 Cahiers de droit 873-904.
  • Marie Manikis, “A New Model of the Criminal Justice Process: Victims’ Rights as Advancing Penal Parsimony and Moderation” (2019) 30:2 Criminal Law Forum 201-223.
  • Marie Manikis, “Contrasting the Emergence of the Victims’ Movements in the United States and England and Wales” (2019) 9:2 Societies 35-53.
  • Marie Manikis and Daniel Pascoe, “Making Sense of the Victim’s Role in Clemency Decision-Making” (2018) International Review of Victimology.
  • Marie Manikis, “Expanding participation: A comparative approach to victims as agents of accountability in the criminal justice process” (2017) 1ĚýPublic Law Ěý63-80.
  • Marie Manikis (with Peter Grbac), “Bargaining for Justice: The Road Towards Prosecutorial Accountability in the Plea Bargaining Process” (2017) 40:3 Manitoba Law Journal 85-110.
  • Marie Manikis, “Towards Accountability and Fairness for Aboriginal People: The Recognition of Gladue as a Principle of Fundamental Justice that Applies to Prosecutors” (2016) 21 Canadian Criminal Law Review 164-184.
  • Marie Manikis, “The recognition of prosecutorial obligations in an era of mandatory minimum sentences of imprisonment and over-representation of Aboriginal people in prisons” (2015) 71 Supreme Court Law Review 277-300.
  • Marie Manikis. “Imagining the future of victims’ rights: A comparative perspective” (2015) 13:1 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 163-186.
  • Marie Manikis, “Victim Impact Statements at Sentencing: Towards a Clearer Understanding of their Aims” (2015) 65:2 University of Toronto Law Journal 85-123.
  • Marie Manikis (with Julian V. Roberts), “Victim Personal Statements: Latest (and last) Trends from the Witnesses and Victims Experience Survey in England and Wales” (2013) 13:3 Criminology and Criminal Justice 245-261.
  • Marie Manikis, “Navigating through an obstacle course: The complaints mechanism for victims of crime in England and Wales” (2012) 12:2 Criminology and Criminal Justice 149-173.
  • Marie Manikis, “Recognizing Victims’ Role and Rights During Plea Bargaining: A Fair Deal for Victims of Crime” (2012) 58:3-4 Criminal Law Quarterly 411.
  • Marie Manikis (with Julian V. Roberts), “Recognizing ancillary harm at sentencing: A proportionate and balanced response” (2011) 15:2 Canadian Criminal Law Review 131-144.
  • Marie Manikis (with Julian V. Roberts), “Victim Impact Statements at Sentencing: The Relevance of Ancillary Harm” (2010) 15:1 Canadian Criminal Law Review, 1-29.

Peer-reviewed book chapters

  • Marie Manikis, “Victim-related Assumptions around Guilty Plea-Based Sentence Reductions: A Communicative and Experiential Framework” in JV Roberts and J Ryberg (eds), Pleading Guilty: Ethical Perspectives on Sentencing the Self-Convicted (Hart, 2023) forthcoming.Ěý
  • Marie Manikis and Mary Iliadis, “Analysing the Victim Review Scheme of Decisions not to Prosecute in England and Wales and Within Comparative Jurisdictions” in P Cox and S Walklate (eds), Victims’ Access to Justice (Routledge, 2022).Ěý
  • Marie Manikis and Mary Iliadis, “Analysing the Victim Review Scheme of Decisions not to Prosecute in England and Wales and Within Comparative Jurisdictions” in P Cox and S Walklate (eds),ĚýVictims’ Access to JusticeĚý(Routledge, 2022) forthcoming.
  • Marie Manikis, “Role of the Victim at Sentencing” in D Cole and JV Roberts (eds),ĚýSentencing in Canada: Law, Policy and PracticeĚý(Irwin Law, 2020)
  • Marie Manikis, “Comparative Perspectives on Victim Participation in Justice Proceedings” in E Erez and P Ibarra (eds), The Oxford Encyclopedia of International Criminology (OUP) (in press)
  • Marie Manikis, “Role of the Victim at Sentencing” in D Cole and JV Roberts, Sentencing in Canada: Law, Policy and Practice (Irwin Law, 2020) (forthcoming)
  • Marie Manikis, “Comparative Perspectives on Victim Participation in Justice Proceedings” in E Erez and P Ibarra (eds), The Oxford Encyclopedia of International Criminology (forthcoming)
  • Marie Manikis, “Conceptualizing the victim within criminal justice processes in common law tradition” in D Brown et al. (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Criminal Process, (Oxford University Press: Oxford 2018)
  • Marie Manikis, “The Difficult Road to Accountability: A Study on Complaints Mechanisms to Investigate and Address Victims’ Rights Violations” in J. Desrosiers, M-E. Sylvestre and M. Garcia, Criminal Law Reform in Canada: Challenges and Possibilities (Yvon Blais, 2017).

Book chapters

  • Marie Manikis, “Criminal Justice and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms” in JV Roberts and M Grossman (eds), Criminal Justice in Canada: A Reader, 6th ed. (Thomson: Toronto 2020)
  • Marie Manikis, “Criminal Justice and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms” in JV Roberts and M Grossman (eds), Criminal Justice in Canada: A Reader, 5th ed. (Thomson: Toronto 2015)
  • Marie Manikis, “Criminal Justice and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms” in JV Roberts and M Grossman (eds), Criminal Justice in Canada: A Reader, 4th ed. (Thomson: Toronto 2011)

Other research journals

  • Marie Manikis, “Impact Statements at Sentencing: Developments since the Victims’ Bill of Rights” (2022) 15 Victims of Crime Research Digest (Department of Justice Canada)Ěý
  • Marie Manikis, “Recent Developments on Victim and Community Participation in Criminal Justice” (2019) 12 Victims of Crime Research Digest (Department of Justice Canada)Ěý
  • Marie Manikis, “Recent Developments on Victim and Community Participation in Criminal Justice” (2019) 12 Victims of Crime Research Digest (Department of Justice Canada)
  • Marie Manikis, (with Jo-Anne Wemmers), «ĚýLe dĂ©dommagement dans le système de justice pĂ©naleĚý» (2017) Research in Brief, Justice Canada, (forthcoming).
  • Marie Manikis and Ivana Isailovic, « Au delĂ  des catĂ©gories? Les nouvelles normes en matière de changement de sexeĚý» (2016) 4 Contours, 70.
  • Marie Manikis, “A comparative overview of victims’ rights, enforcement mechanisms and redress in England and Wales and the American Federal jurisdiction” (2013) 6 Victims of Crime Research Digest
  • Marie Manikis (with Julian V. Roberts), “Victim Impact Statements in Canada: Recent Guidance from the Courts of Appeal” (2012) 5 Victims of Crime Research Digest
  • Marie Manikis, «ĚýLes tribunaux d'arbitrage civils islamiques en OntarioĚý», 1:1 International Legal (2005) Perspectives, Canadian Lawyers Abroad

Government reports

  • Marie Manikis,ĚýFederalism and Victims’ Rights in CanadaĚý(Ottawa: Office of the Federal Ombudsman for Victims of Crime, 2021)
  • Marie Manikis, Report on Judicial Delays in Criminal Proceedings (Ottawa: Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs, 2016)
  • Marie Manikis, The Canadian Victims Bill of Rights: A Policy Analysis and Interpretation (Ottawa: Office of the Federal Ombudsman for Victims of Crime, 2014)
  • Marie Manikis (with Julian V. Roberts), Victims’ Needs and the Development of Outcome Measurements (London: Ministry of Justice of England and Wales, 2012)
  • Marie Manikis (with Julian V. Roberts) Victim Personal Statements at Sentencing: A Review of the Empirical Research (London: Office of the Commissioner for Victims and Witnesses of England and Wales, 2011)
  • Marie Manikis, Research findings and legislation on victims’ rights in Canada (Ottawa: Senate of Canada, 2011)

Contributions to public life, media and editorials

  • Marie Manikis, “”, Policy Options, 7 April 2020.
  • Marie Manikis, Interview “Quebec court declares mandatory minimum sentence unconstitutional for Aboriginal accused”, The Lawyer’s Daily, 22 April 2020.
  • Marie Manikis, Interview on the role of victims in England and Wales and comparative perspectives, The Economist, 21 May 2019.
  • Marie Manikis, « », Le Devoir, 16 January 2019.
  • Marie Manikis, , CBC News, 30 January 2019.
  • Marie Manikis, Interview on the role of victim impact statements, Canadian Press, 30 January 2019.
  • Marie Manikis, Interview on Quebec’s proposal for specialized sexual violence tribunals, The Lawyers Weekly, 28 January 2019.
  • Jeffrey Kennedy and Marie Manikis, “”, The Gazette, 24 April, 2018.
  • Marie Manikis, Interview on joint submissions at sentencing following R. v. Anthony-Cook, 2016 SCC 43, The Lawyers Weekly.
  • Marie Manikis (with Kaitlyn O’Shaughnessy), “The Mandatory Costs of Mandatory Minimum Sentences in Canada”, Oxford Human Rights Hub, 19 April 2016.
  • Marie Manikis (with Julian Roberts), “Mandatory minimum sentences don’t work. They can’t work”, The Gazette, 13 January 2016.
  • Marie Manikis (with Marion Vannier), “Life Without Parole sentencing violates human ĚýĚýĚýĚý rights”, The Gazette, 1 April 2015
  • Marie Manikis, “Where are the rights in the proposed Victims Bill?”, The Globe and Mail, 7 April 2014
  • Marie Manikis, Interview on Bill C-32 and its implications, The Globe and Mail, 4 April 2014
  • Marie Manikis, Interview on Bill C-32 and its impact in criminal law, The Lawyers Weekly.ĚýĚýĚýĚýĚýĚýĚýĚýĚýĚýĚý
  • Marie Manikis, National Webinar for the Victims Justice Network: “Victim Impact Statements: Past Present and Future”, 2014
  • Marie Manikis, Consultation on a Proposed Federal Victims’ Bill of Rights, Ottawa: Department of Justice (September 2013).
  • Marie Manikis, Consultation on Improving the Code of Practice for Victims of Crime, London: Ministry of Justice (April 2013).
  • Marie Manikis, «ĚýProcureurs de la CouronneĚý: une vague de dĂ©parts dĂ©sastreuse est Ă  craindreĚý» La Presse, 23 February 2011
  • Marie Manikis, “Une Couronne sans joyauxĚý: les consĂ©quences d’une justice secondaire au QuĂ©bec” Droit-inc, 24 February 2011

Education

  • DPhil (Law) University of Oxford (2010-2014)
  • MSt (Law), University of Oxford (2009-2010)
  • LL.M., Osgoode Hall Law School (2008-2009)
  • Member of the Quebec Bar (2007)
  • LL.B. (Hons.), University of Montreal (2003-2006)

Employment

  • William Dawson Chair, Ď㽶ĘÓƵ (2019- )
  • Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Ď㽶ĘÓƵ (2019- )
  • Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, Ď㽶ĘÓƵ (2013-2019)
  • Researcher (2009-2013), Tutor (2012), Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford (2009-2013)
  • Teaching Assistant, York University (2008-2009)
  • Lawyer (litigation) (2007-2008) and legal intern (2005-2007)
  • Judicial Clerkship, Superior Court of Quebec (2005-2006)

Areas of interest

Criminal law, human rights, victims, sentencing and criminal justice.

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