Michael Lynk taught at the Faculty of Law, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada from 1999 until his retirement in 2022. He taught courses in labour, human rights, disability, constitutional and administrative law. He served as Associate Dean of the Faculty between 2008-11. He became Professor Emeritus in 2023.
Professor Lynk serves as a labour arbitrator and mediator. He presently is an arbitrator with the Ontario Grievance Settlement Board. He has published widely on Canadian labour law and human rights law. He is the co-author of Trade Union Law in Canada (Carswell) and Employment Law in Canada (5th ed.) (Lexis Nexis).
In March 2016, the United Nations Human Rights Council unanimously selected Professor Lynk for a six-year term as the 7th Special Rapporteur for the human rights situation in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967. In his capacity, he delivered regular reports to the UN General Assembly and the Human Rights Council on human rights trends in the OPT. He completed his term in April 2022.
He has written about his UN experiences in a 2022 book co-authored with Richard Falk and John Dugard, two of his predecessors as UN special rapporteurs: Protecting Human Rights in Occupied Palestine: Working Through the United Nations (Clarity Press).
Professor Lynk’s scholarship and UN reports have been widely cited by courts, tribunals, scholars and human rights organizations, including the Supreme Court of Canada and the International Court of Justice.
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