Marie Manikis

Dr Marie Manikis (DPhil 2014) is an Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar at the Faculty of Law of McGill University. She is also an adviser for the Sentencing Academy (England and Wales), a Research Associate at the International Centre for Comparative Criminology, and an Associate Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law. 

Dr Manikis' research is interdisciplinary and comparative and analyses various aspects of prosecutorial discretion and state accountability, the role of victims in criminal justice processes, forms of citizen and community participation in criminal justice, as well as bail, sentencing and punishment.

She is the author of the monograph Victims as Agents of State Accountability (OUP 2026, in press) and co-editor of the volume Sentencing, Public Opinion, and Criminal Justice: Essays in Honour of Julian V Roberts (OUP 2025). She has published her research in leading peer-reviewed journals including the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, the Cambridge Law Journal, the Modern Law Review, and Public Law.  

Dr Manikis has won several awards for her scholarship and 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 Harvard Law School, 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.