Janine Benedet is an associate professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of British Columbia, where her research focuses on male sexual violence against women. Her recent research considers the criminal law of sexual assault’s treatment of questions of capacity and voluntariness in the contexts of age and (with Isabel Grant) mental disability. She is active in opposing the prostitution and pornography industries as institutions of male violence.
Suzanne Bouclin is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa. She has an interdisciplinary background in feminist studies, cinema, and criminology. Her current research explores whether an established social networking site can serve as a model venue through which homeless people can articulate their legal grievances as well as access necessary legal information and services. Her other areas of research, collaborations, and publication include performance and performativity in legal education, feminist aesthetics, law and popular culture, and the criminal regulation of vulnerable groups.
Kim Brooks is dean of the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University and previously held the H. Heward Stikeman Chair in the Law of Taxation in the Faculty of Law at McGill University and appointments at Queen’s University and the University of British Columbia. She teaches all areas of taxation, with particular interests in critical policy analysis, the interaction of high- and low-income country tax regimes, and other tax policy issues. A prolific SSHRC-funded scholar, she has served as president of the Canadian Association of Law Teachers, managing editor/secretary of the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, co-chair of the National Steering Committee at the National Association of Women and the Law, editor of Women and Gender Law Abstracts, and chair of the Board of Directors at the Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund.
Elaine Craig is an assistant professor at the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University. She teaches and writes in the areas of criminal law, constitutional law, and feminist legal theory.
Richard Devlin is a professor of law at the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University. In 2005, he was appointed research professor at Dalhousie University, and this position was renewed in 2010. His areas of teaching include contracts, jurisprudence, legal ethics, and graduate studies. He has published widely in various journals, nationally and internationally. Recent books include editing Critical Disability Theory and Lawyers’ Ethics and Professional [End Page 171] Regulation (2nd edition, 2012). In 2003, and again in 2010, he received the Hanna and Harold Bernett Award for Excellence in Teaching First Year. In 2008, he was a recipient of the Canadian Association of Law Teachers Award for Academic Excellence. He has been involved in the design, development, and delivery of Judicial Education programs in Canada and abroad for more than twenty years. In 2012, he agreed to serve as the founding president of the Canadian Association for Legal Ethics.
Isabel Grant is a professor of law in the Faculty of Law at the University of British Columbia. She teaches in the areas of criminal law and mental health law, and her research focuses on criminal justice and gender with a particular interest in issues involving the intersection of mental disability and gender. She has also worked on a number of equality-related cases in the Supreme Court of Canada for LEAF and other public interest groups.
Nancy Hansen is the director of the Interdisciplinary Master’s Program in Disability Studies at the University of Manitoba.
Kate Kaul is a doctoral candidate in Social and Political Thought at York University and an instructor in the Writing and Sociology Departments at York University.
Jennifer Koshan is an associate professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Calgary. She formerly practised for several years in the Northwest Territories as Crown counsel and worked as the legal director of the BC branch of the Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund. Her teaching and research interests are in the areas of constitutional law, equality and human rights, violence against women, and public interest advocacy.
Darcy L. MacPherson is an associate professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Manitoba. His research interests include disability rights, corporate law (including criminal liability), corporate governance, and partnerships. A professor since 2002, he has taught courses in corporate law, secured transactions, criminal law, contracts, agency, and partnerships and tax.
Joëlle Pastora Sala a obtenu un diplôme en études politiques et développement international avant d’entamer ses études au Programme de common law en français à l’Université d’Ottawa. Elle s’intéresse particulièrement aux droits de la personne, aux droits des personnes ayant des déficiences et aux droits des autochtones.
Lorna A. Turnbull is dean and associate professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Manitoba. A graduate of the International School of Geneva in [End Page 172] Switzerland, Queen’s University, the University of Ottawa, and Columbia University in New York City, she has taught and published in both law and women’s studies. In addition to teaching and academic writing, she is involved in social development at the community and national levels, has served as an expert witness in cases touching on mothers’ equality claims, and is a member of an advisory group on gender-based analysis of budgets and legislation, which has developed high-profile legislative interventions on budgetary politics.
Jonnette Watson Hamilton is a professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Calgary. She joined the faculty in 1992 after thirteen years of private practice in rural Alberta. Her teaching and research interests are in the areas of legal theory, equality, discourse analysis, and property law and theory. [End Page 173]
