Mahyar Hallajpour

Law, governance, and digitally mediated decision systems

Current focus

Administrative Reviewability
Institutional Governance
Decision Legitimacy

Biography

I work at the intersection of law, governance, and institutional accountability, with sustained professional experience in immigration decision systems and administrative law. Over two decades, I have conducted extensive review of immigration case files and administrative decisions across Canadian and international contexts, examining discretionary reasoning, procedural fairness, and judicial review pathways.

My current research focuses on reviewability and legitimacy in digitally mediated governance, examining whether administrative decision systems remain legally intelligible and reconstructible when mediated through complex institutional and digital structures.

Research initiatives

Selected work

Centre for Governance and Legitimacy Standards

Contributor, Standards Development

An analytical research initiative examining governance decision systems against constitutional principles, statutory authority, and administrative law standards, with emphasis on cross‑domain analysis of digitally mediated decision making and conditions of institutional legitimacy.

Mizan Legal Reasoning Framework

Principal Researcher

A feasibility‑stage diagnostic framework for reconstructing administrative decision logic against statutory authority, tribunal jurisprudence, and constitutional principles, developed as a research instrument for examining reason giving and reviewability under administrative law standards.

Humanitan Research Institute

Research Director

A research institute focused on migration governance, human‑centred institutional design, and democratic accountability in administrative systems.

Recent posts

Selected writing