About the Contributors/Quelques mots sur nos collaboratrices
- About the Contributors/Quelques mots sur nos collaboratrices
Diana Backhouse graduated from the University of Victoria, Faculty of Law in 2009. She is currently doing a 2009-10 clerkship at the Court of Appeal for Ontario.
Susan B. Boyd is a professor of law and holds the Chair in Feminist Legal Studies at the University of British Columbia. She is also director of the UBC Centre for Feminist Legal Studies. She researches gender and sexuality issues in the fields of child custody law and family law and has numerous publications in these fields. Her book Child Custody, Law, and Women's Work was published in 2003 by Oxford University Press. Her most recent edited collection is Reaction and Resistance: Feminism, Law, and Social Change (UBC Press 2007). Her recent work focuses on legal parenthood, autonomous motherhood, and resistance to feminist-inspired legal change.
Kim Brooks is an associate professor, H. Heward Stikeman Chair in the Law of Taxation at McGill University, and senior research fellow in the Taxation Law and Policy Research Institute at Monash University.
Maneesha Deckha is an Associate Professor at the University of Victoria Faculty of Law. Her teaching and research interests lie at the intersections of feminist, postcolonial and posthumanist theory. In 2008, she held the Fulbright Visiting Chair in Law and Society at New York University in relation to her work on animals, culture and law.
Katy Sakina Frattina est diplômée d'une maîtrise en droit international de Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne et d'un LL.M. de l'Université Mcgill. Elle a effectué son mémoire de LL.M. sous la supervision du professeur René Provost sur « Le droit des femmes dans le conflit israélo-palestinien » basé sur une recherche empirique en Israël et en Palestine. Elle a travaillé pour les droits de la femme et des différentes ethnies aux Nations Unies (UNODC) au Laos. Elle est maintenant assistante de justice au Palais de Justice de Paris. Elle travaille au dossier des implications de la France dans le génocide du Rwanda.
Fiona Kelly is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of British Columbia. She has a B.A. and LL.B. (Hons) from the University of Melbourne and an LL.M. and Ph.D. in Law from the University of British Columbia. Her research is primarily in the area of family law, with a particular focus on the legal response to alternative family arrangements. [End Page 423]
Louise Langevin holds the Claire-Bonenfant Research Chair on the Status of Women at Laval University and is a full professor in the Faculty of Law at Laval University in Québec City. She teaches and researches in obligations (contracts), civil liability, human rights, and feminist analysis of law. Her main interest in research is the cross-section between civil law and the feminist analysis of law. She co-authored Compensating Victims of Sexual and Spousal Abuse (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2002). She also worked on trafficking in women and children in Canada, on women as surety wives, and on anti-feminist websites. She now works on access to justice for women victims of sexual harassment.
Diana Majury is a professor in the Department of Law at Carleton University in Ottawa. Her primary areas of teaching and research are in Charter equality, human rights, law and literature, and criminal law, all from a feminist/social justice perspective.
Debra Parkes is an associate professor of law at the University of Manitoba. She joined the Faculty of Law in July 2001 after receiving her LL.M. from Columbia University and her LL.B. from the University of British Columbia. Her teaching and research interests include criminal law, constitutional law (with a focus on equality and social and economic rights), employment and labour law, and penal law and policy. Her research has been published in a wide variety of academic journals in the United States and Canada. Debra is president of the Canadian Law and Society Association and is the 2008 recipient of the Manitoba Bar Association's Equality Award.
Margaret Thornton is a professor of law and professorial fellow in the Australian Research Council, in the College...
