Faculty and staff

Hayli Millar is an Associate Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of the Fraser Valley, British Columbia (Canada), and a Senior Associate of the International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy (ICCLR). She has post-graduate degrees in criminology (M.A. from Simon Fraser University, Canada) and law (Ph.D. from the University of Melbourne, Australia). Hayli has been very fortunate to live, work, and conduct research in several countries, including as a consultant to the United Nations in Jordan and as a gender and development specialist for the Asian Development Bank in the Philippines. She specializes in critical and comparative socio-legal research and human rights-based and evidence-informed criminal justice policy reform. She's worked on domestic and international research projects concerning alternative dispute resolution; Indigenous-led community-based justice; transitional (post-conflict) justice; and gender, migration, and human trafficking. Hayli has published several technical reports and peer-reviewed articles and chapters on Canadian and international human trafficking laws, the international legal rights of children with justice-involved parents, and transitional justice. She has taught about twenty courses at five post-secondary institutions at all undergraduate levels. Hayli has also supervised undergraduate student research, directed studies, honours thesis, and graduate students.

• Ph.D, University of Melbourne

• M.A., Simon Fraser University

• B.A., Simon Fraser University

• Introduction to the Criminal Justice System

• Youth Crime and the Youth Justice System in Canada

• Women, Crime, and Criminal Justice

• Diversity, Crime, and Criminal Justice in Canada

• Comparative Criminal Justice Systems

• Terrorism

Hayli's current research focuses on the convergence of Canadian anti-trafficking with commercial sex work (commodification) laws, alongside the legal and human rights implications of the racialized, gendered, and sensationalized enforcement of these laws.  She has also recently worked on research projects on the international legal rights of children of justice-involved parents (ICCLR), child and forced labor in the context of global supply chains (ICCLR), and the exploitation of international university students in Canada (UFV).