Gerald Heckman

Gerald Heckman was appointed as a judge at the Federal Court of Appeal in 2023. Formerly he was an associate professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Manitoba, where he taught administrative, constitutional, and advanced public law and language rights. After receiving his LLB from the University of Toronto, he clerked for the Federal Court of Canada; obtained an LLM in administrative law from Queen’s University; practised labour, employment, and human rights law at the Toronto office of a national firm; and earned his PhD on the role of international human rights norms in Canadian administrative and constitutional law at Osgoode Hall Law School. In addition to co-editing Administrative Law: Cases, Text, and Materials (Toronto: Emond, 2010, 2015, and 2022), he has been a contributing author for Immigration and Refugee Law: Cases, Materials, and Commentary, 3rd ed (Toronto: Emond, 2020), Administrative Law in Context, 4th ed (Toronto: Emond, 2022), and Jurisclasseur—Droit Constitutionnel (Toronto: LexisNexis, 2024) (loose-leaf updated 2020). He has published in the International Journal of Refugee Law, American Journal of International Law, Supreme Court Law Review, McGill Law Journal, Osgoode Hall Law Journal, and other journals. He is the recipient of several faculty and university teaching awards.