Biography
Petra Molnar is a lawyer in Toronto, Canada and an alumna of the IHRP (Juris Doctor 2016). She has worked on forced migration and refugee issues since 2008 as a settlement worker, researcher, and lawyer. Petra regularly shares her work domestically and internationally and writes about immigration detention, health and human rights, gender-based violence, and the politics of refugee, immigration, and international law. She is currently exploring the impacts of automated-decision making and artificial intelligence in Canada’s immigration and refugee system on human rights, in a joint project with The Citizen Lab.Petra articled at the Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic, which works with women who have experienced violence, and is on the executive committee of the Canadian Association for the Study of Forced Migration. She is also starting a research institute and working on a book on the Syrian conflict and refugee resilience with her Syrian collaborator Mayss al-Zoubi. Petra is an LL.M candidate (2019) at the University of Cambridge, specializing in international law.