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Jane Bailey, B.A.S. (Hons.) (Trent University), M.I.R. (Queen’s University), LL.B. (Queen’s University), LL.M. (University of Toronto), is an associate professor in the Faculty of Law—Common Law Section—at the University of Ottawa.

Lori G. Beaman, Ph.D. is Canada Research Chair in the Contextualization of Religion in a Diverse Canada and professor in the Department of Classics and Religious Studies at the University of Ottawa. Her publications include Defining Harm: Religious Freedom and the Limits of the Law (UBC Press, 2008); “Is Religious Freedom Impossible in Canada?” Law, Culture, and the Humanities 7:2 (2011) [forthcoming]; and “Just Work It Out amongst Your Selves: The Implications of the Private Mediation of Religious Freedom” Citizenship Studies 16:2 (2012) [forthcoming]. She is co-editor, with Peter Beyer, of Religion and Diversity in Canada (Leiden: Brill Academic Press, 2008). She is principal investigator of a thirty-six-member international research team whose focus is on religion and diversity.

Sarah Berger Richardson is a third-year student in the Faculty of Law at McGill University.

Susan B. Boyd is professor of law and holds the Chair in Feminist Legal Studies at the University of British Columbia, where she is also director of the Centre for Feminist Legal Studies. She teaches and publishes in the fields of feminist legal theory and family law. Her recent work is on motherhood, law, and autonomy. She is a proud member of the editorial board of the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law.

Christine Boyle is a professor of law at the University of British Columbia. She has occasionally participated in test case litigation, including as co-counsel for the Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter in Nixon v. Vancouver Rape Relief Society. Her current research projects relate to common law comparativism and child homicide.

Doris Buss is Associate Professor of Law at Carleton University. She teaches and researches in the areas of women’s rights, international law, and feminist theory. She is the author (with Didi Herman) of Globalizing Family Values: The Global Politics of the Christian Right (Minnesota, 2003) and editor (with Ambreena Manji) of International Law: Modern Feminist Approaches (Hart, 2005). Her current work focuses on women and armed conflict, and she is the [End Page 710] editor (with Joanne Lebert, Blair Rutherford, and Donna Sharkey) of Sexual Violence and Conflict in Africa (UNU Press, forthcoming 2012).

Angela Campbell is an assistant professor of law and the director of the Institute of Comparative Law in the Faculty of Law at McGill University.

Caroline Dick is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Western Ontario. Her research focuses on equality and minority social groups in the political and legal realms. Caroline holds an LL.B. from the University of Western Ontario and a Ph.D. in political science from Queen’s University.

Sonia Gauthier est professeure agrégée à l’École de service social de l’Université de Montréal. Elle est aussi chercheure au Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire sur la violence familiale et la violence faite aux femmes et à l’Observatoire canadien sur les mesures judiciaires prises pour contrer la violence conjugale. Ses travaux portent sur la judiciarisation des événements de violence conjugale, et elle se préoccupe notamment des risques de victimisation secondaire associée à l’intervention judiciaire criminelle. Elle s’intéresse également à la problématique de la violence conjugale vécue par les femmes en situation de handicap. Elle a reçu en 2010 une subvention du Conseil de recherche en sciences humaines du Canada pour réaliser un projet de recherche portant sur la pertinence d’utiliser l’approche de la réduction des méfaits auprès des femmes qui ne quittent pas la situation de violence conjugale ou qui y retournent.

Mouna Hanna has her bachelor of arts degree from the University of Western Ontario and her J.D. degree from the University of Ottawa.

Robert Leckey is an associate professor and William Dawson Scholar in the Faculty of Law and the acting director of the Quebec Research Centre of Private and Comparative...

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